A bottle of hand sanitiser sits on a counter. (Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg)
As people sanitise and wash hands multiple times a day and disinfect surfaces like never before during the pandemic, demand for plastic pouches and bottles spiked. So much so that makers of such packaging material have started adding capacities.Companies including Essel Propack Ltd., Uflex Ltd. and Polyplex Corp. have announced capacity additions. Demand has been particularly strong for film-based BOPP and BOPET packaging.The packagi...