The Indian Institute of Packaging will start an office in Bangalore, its Joint Director Madhav Chakraborthy has said.

The institute, which is headquartered in Mumbai, has offices across various locations such as Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai and so on. It has recently acquired some land in Bangalore and will start an office there, Chakraborthy said.

The apex body set up in 1966 is under the administrative control of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

The institute imparts training, provides consultancy and projects, laboratory testing, quality control checks, organises expos etc. Over 25,000 individuals from India and abroad are said to have passed the portals of IIP.