HYDERABAD: A four-day Indian Plastics Exhibition — IPLEX07 — is being organised for the first time here from April 27 by the Andhra Pradesh Plastic Manufacturers' Association along with its counterparts in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala for promoting the industry in the South.

Some 270 manufacturers, 50 per cent of them involved in machinery-making, are taking part in the exhibition to be inaugurated by Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy at Hitex, Madhapur.

They will showcase latest technologies, modern processes, raw materials besides host of intermediate products.

V. Anil Reddy, president of the association, and Anil Nagda, convener, told a press conference here on Wednesday that the Plastindia Foundation and the Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET) were supporting the event.

The Indian Centre for Plastics and Environment, a participant, would be educating both entrepreneurs and about 20,000 visitors from the south and neighbouring States on proper use of plastics in relation to environmental cleanliness.

Growth rate

According to Anil Nagda, Andhra Pradesh, with a growth rate of 30 per cent in the plastics industry, as against 15 per cent in the country, was consuming around three lakh tonnes annually.

It was becoming a major production hub with large consumption reported in PVC, pipes, woven sacks, furniture, flexible packaging, cans, bottles, containers and components.

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