Specialty packaging products for defence and aero-space industries has registered steady evolution over the last few years. This is a direct result of the opening up of Indian defense and aerospace industries to private players in India who have responded positively to the newfound opportunity, who in turn, have responded with great enthusiasm to this opportunity.
A lot of startups have emerged in the last few years in the field of R&D as well as production of defence and aerospace products along with existing established Indian industrial houses diversifying their portfolio in this sector and growth in FDIs, leading to creation of a niche market for defence and aerospace grade specialty packaging products. Sitting right at the centre of this dynamic opportunity and demand is Pune headquartered Fropack industries.
Established in 2019, Fropack is one of the first few entrants in this sector. Mounting on the first mover advantage, Fropack offers a wide range of manufacturing capabilities in the domain of thermoplastics and thermosetting plastics. The firm has been leveraging a mix of conventional manufacturing technologies and manufacturing processes with latest technologies available in the market to bring world class products catering to defence and aerospace sector to the market today.
A plethora of factors set Fropack ahead in the course. Fropack’s significantly lesser response time, its resilience, a dynamic team of young and
experienced people who are growth minded are some of the differentiating factors that give Fropack an advantage. Fropack also has a good repository of resources which helps to keep the startup abreast with latest changes and developments in the market and sector. More so, its willingness to take risks and try out different solutions, learn from the mistakes and move ahead fast have helped Fropack to establish a good reputation amongst its clientele.
A 360 Degree Fulfilment to Customers’ Demands
Fropack constantly stays in touch with the customers, right from the development stage of a product to their final delivery and throughout the shelf life of the product. Defence and aerospace grade packaging must have a long shelf life as the defence or aerospace products, must be reusable, recyclable and commensurate with quality in accordance with various domestic and international standards. While staying updated with the latest developments in this sector across the world, Fropack also maintains high standards of manufacturing and quality assurance.
Understanding the present and future demands of manufacturing sectors, as well as their pain points in carrying and delivering their products, and providing them with packaging solutions that meet global standards and are specific to their needs
Just as the defence and aerospace product, their packaging also undergoes a series of tests from time to time by the developer as well as end user. Beinga developer and manufacturer of the packaging products, Fropackis not just a supplier for its clients, but a major partner and stakeholder in their business for all clients. The firm keeps the feed-back channel open throughout the entire lifecycle of their products incorporating the improvements / changes as per their requirement from time to time. This essentially results in meeting the client’s expectation beyond the no rmal curve.
For the near future, the Co-founder of Fropack, Arin-dam Roy expresses Fropack’s intent to consolidate its position in the defence and aerospace product packaging sector, focus on increasing research and development activities to create innovative products which meets latest global standards. Focus will also be on diversifying across geographies & industries and increase the assortment of products in the short and long term. “Being a dynamic organization and leveraging the benefits of being a startup, we move fast, fail fast and change fast as well and we hope that this inherent strength of ours will help us to grow our prospects in this sunrise sector in short as well as long term as we look to strengthen our position, grow in terms of revenue, team size, business operations and portfolio size”, concludes Arindam Roy, Founder, Fropack Industries LLP.
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