MUMBAI: Indian plastic exporters foresee a huge growth potential in Middle East and African markets and eyeing nearly 20 per cent growth in shipment of plastic products and 22 per cent in machinery in the upcoming financial year (2013-14).

NEW DELHI: The environment department of Delhi government has launched a drive to check compliance of the blanket ban on use of plastic bags across the city.

As part of the drive, 25 teams from the environment department carried out checks in all shopping malls and five-star hotels in city. The teams found violations of the ban in over hundred shops and action would be taken against the violators.

NEW DELHI: Gerresheimer AG, a leading German packaging company, has acquired 75% stake in Triveni Polymers Private Limited which is a producer of plastic containers and closures for the pharma industry. The amount for the deal is yet to be disclosed.

Plastic Omnium SA of Levallois, France, plans to expand extensively in India.

The company is planning an engineering center, a just-in-time assembly and sequencing plant, and an auto exteriors plant to cater to expanding auto hubs in various parts of the country.

“We are setting-up an engineering center in Pune in 2013. Initially, it would have a strength of 15 engineers,” Jean-Paul Moulin, structure and body product line director for Plastic Omnium Auto Exterior, said Nov. 1 at the Automotive Plastics India conference in Mumbai.