BIS standards put Indian metal packaging industry in disarray

Nakash Vasaya of Maharashtra Metal Works at Aerosol Expo 2019.

The Indian metal packaging Industry claims that it is in deep trouble because the global tinplate and tin costless steel suppliers are not interested in selling to Indian metallic container manufacturers because of the standards prepare downwards by the Bureau of Indian Standards. The Metal Containers Manufacturers Clan of India says the Rs 10,000 crore metal packaging industry in the country cannot source raw material because the domestic industry is unable or "not so equipped to fulfill the demand."

The MCMA says there is a shortage of raw fabric used for packaging food and other products in metallic containers, which has increased the toll of this type of packaging. Tin containers are used mostly for packaging food, beer, milk products, and other items including personal intendance, while the tin-free material is used for caps, crowns and closures and components for sealing bottles and other containers. Following representations by the MCMA, the government earlier postponed implementing the order to 17 April 2021. Now the industry is seeking a further delay in implementing QCO till at least 31 March 2022.

The metallic containers clan says the industry is more often than not dependent on importing tinplate and tin-costless steel and is under tremendous pressure as there is a shortage of raw material, with prices recently escalating past more fifteen%. It is asking that the 17 July 2022 – Steel and steel products Quality Command Order be postponed until sufficient quantities (about 700,000 tons annually) can be produced locally and in compliance with the order. Asserting that there is a need-supply gap of 250,000 tons annually, the association has too suggested that autonomously from postponement for another year, the QCO should be withdrawn altogether.

The steel and steel products quality control order (QCO) of 17 July 2022 issued by the government's Ministry of Steel mandates BIS Certification of inputs such as tinplate and tin-gratuitous steel. It imposes restrictions on the imports of steel easy-open ends, peel off ends, which the manufacture sources from overseas.

The clan has also requested the Ministry building of steel to allow the employ of ISO certification materials in addition to BIS certified fabric. The MCMA asked the Ministry to enable the use of materials aligned to the ISO included in FSSAI'southward order and recommended by the Ministry building of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME).

The MCMA believes that the QCO has been notified when the industry is already reeling under the pandemic. It is hard to force international suppliers to go for BIS certifications. It says the procedure of BIS registration is unmanageable in the current situation.

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