Our history

At the young age of 18 years, Mr. Sardarilal Talwar inherited the Moolchand Departmental Store which besides being the largest retailer, was a major importer & wholesaler. Mr. Talwar soon realised that for the British Army Dairy he could  import paper & convert into paper products. And PPL was born in 1935. Mr. Moolchand was a great philanthropist – building charitable dispensaries, schools, hostels and temples. Even today, a street in Lahore, Pakistan is named “Moolchand”.

For some of us, history is about dates, so here goes . . .

1935 - Established in Lahore as The Paper Products Ltd (PPL)
1950 - PPL goes public and is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange
1960 - Flexible laminate Plant – I commissioned at Thane
1996 - Flexible laminate Plant – II commissioned at Silvassa
1998 - Flexible laminates & carton manufacturing Plant – III with takeover & extensive refurbishing of A&R Packaging at Hyderabad
1999 - PPL becomes a member of Huhtamaki Packaging Worldwide
2006 - Flexible laminate Plant – IV commissioned at Rudrapur
2007 - High end pouching solutions at Silvassa
2010 - New Thane plant – transformation into a world class facility
2012 - Further consolidation of No.1 position in labelling in India through acquisition of majority stake in Webtech, niche player in premium labels
2014 - Major capability and capacity expansion at Silvassa plant
2014 - The Paper Products Ltd is renamed as Huhtamaki PPL Limited (HPPL)
2015 - Positive Packaging becomes part of HPPL
2016 - Continued expansion into new technologies and new geographies
2017 - Legal merger of Positive Packaging and Webtech with HPPL, Commissioned two new plants at Sikkim & Guwahati
2018 - Huhtamaki PPL acquires Ajanta Packaging
2019 - Huhtamaki acquires flexible packaging business of Mohan Mutha Polytech Private Limited
2020 - Huhtamaki Group turns 100, rebranded from Huhtamaki PPL to Huhtamaki India Ltd (HIL)