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COUNTRY OUTLOOK Their parent company’s expertise
India In Sri Lanka, Piramal Glass’s India, as the town houses seven in the glass industry and mar-
often called the beer capital of
and Williamstown, New Jersey.
breweries in total.
facility is located at Horana. This
ket potential in India’s container
Can Pack India’s contain-
glass market encouraged Can
facility has a capacity of 250
Pack to set up container glass
er glass plant has a capacity of
tonnes per day of container glass.
CAN PACK INDIA
glass from two furnaces and six
MID SCALE PRODUCERS
Can Pack India a subsidiary of 800 tonnes per day of container facilities in the country.
production lines. In addition to
Polish packaging company Can container glass, Can Pack also Nearly a dozen mid-scale pro-
Pack, which entered the Indian produces aluminium cans for ducers (with estimated capacities
container glass market in 2012 the beverage industry. Originally in the range of 120 to 300 tonnes
by setting up a greenfield facil- the company had set up an alu- per day) accounts for about 30
ity at Aurangabad in the state minium can manufacturing plant percent of the country’s con-
of Maharashtra. Aurangabad is in India during the last decade. tainer glass capacity. Spread all

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