Both the companies see significant business opportunities to and from India. They also acknowledged the fact that a close co-operation and partnership is the best way to participate in this development. The company plans to meet the tube requirement of Procter and Gamble's American and Canadian operations through its plant which was inaugurated yesterday by US Congressman Virgil Goode, Procter and Gamble's Director of Healthcare product supply Stewart Atkinson and EPL's Vice President Ashok Goel.
"The company's vision for 2005 is to be the world's most admired specialty packaging company with a 50 per cent share in global market in laminated tubes,"
Goel said later at a reception hosted by the Indian Consul General in New York Pramathesh Rath. With the opening of the Danville plant which is 17th manufacturing unit, EPL becomes the first Indian company to have presence in all the five continents.

It commands 30 per cent of the global laminated tube market today and has presence in 11 countries and produces in excess of 3.5 billion tubes.
The company says it constantly innovates and infuses cutting edge state of art technologies through strategic alliances with several leading Swiss, German, Japanese and American corporations. Bureau Report