Packaging for people, product and planet
Packaging Clinic & Research Institute was established on 22 February 2012 in Hyderabad as an independent platform for packaging testing, training, consultancy, audit, research and knowledge dissemination.
Founded in 2012 by senior packaging professionals with more than three decades of industry experience.
Over the years they had seen the same packaging failures repeat: leakage, corrosion, weak seals, transport damage and non-compliance with standards. The cause was rarely a lack of materials or technology. It was the gap between theoretical knowledge and shop-floor practice.
PCRI was set up to close that gap. From the start it has worked as a packaging clinic: a challenge is diagnosed systematically, the root cause is identified, and the answer is built on material science, packaging engineering and applicable standards rather than trial and error.
Today PCRI is a knowledge-driven, industry-focused institute working with industry, government bodies, academic institutions, research organisations and packaging professionals across food, pharmaceutical, FMCG, agriculture and allied sectors.
The principles that guide PCRI's testing, training and consultancy work.
To be a nationally and globally respected centre of excellence for scientific, sustainable and compliant packaging solutions that protect products, consumers and the environment.
Good packaging must protect the product, safeguard the consumer, support the supply chain, use resources carefully and answer for its environmental cost.
Key facts about the institute. A full corporate profile is available on request.
PCRI's work spans six areas, and most client engagements draw on more than one of them.
Testing and evaluation of materials, components and complete packaging systems for quality, strength, safety and performance.
Independent technical consultancy across the development cycle: problem, design, material, prototype, testing, optimisation, validation.
Developing skilled packaging professionals through structured programmes for industry, students, MSMEs, startups and regulators.
Systematic audits that find performance gaps, quality issues, cost and material savings, supply-chain risk and compliance exposure.
Applied research in the areas where packaging is changing fastest.
Balancing product protection, resource efficiency, economic viability and environmental responsibility across the whole life cycle.
We work with manufacturers, brand owners and suppliers across these sectors, each with its own regulations and supply-chain risks.
PCRI's work sits where these five meet. Collaboration is what turns a test result into something an industry can use.
A test, an audit, a specification, a programme for your team, or an expert on your floor.
