Bengaluru — Made Here, Tested Here
Your brand is built in Bengaluru. Your packaging should be too.
The situation
Bengaluru is India's D2C beauty capital. The packaging hasn't caught up.
Bengaluru is home to some of India's fastest-growing beauty and personal care brands — built on digital-first distribution, premium ingredient sourcing, and packaging design that matches the brand story. The ingredient quality and brand positioning have matured. The packaging supply chain largely hasn't.
Most brands in Bengaluru are still using plastic jars from domestic moulders or importing glass with plastic lids from China. Neither tells a consistent natural-material story. Neither has independent third-party bio-based content verification. Neither is manufactured in the same city.
The answer
A bio-composite jar. Made here. Tested here. No import involved.
Agropak manufactures in Bengaluru from coconut shell powder and bamboo fiber — agricultural co-products from South Indian farming. The material contains no petroleum-derived plastic. The jar and lid are both bio-composite. Compression and drop testing was conducted at CIPET's Bengaluru facility. The bio-based content was verified by TÜV SÜD Frankfurt under ASTM D6866.
For a Bengaluru brand, this is a local supplier with international-standard documentation and no import overheads. That combination doesn't otherwise exist in the Indian market.
What this means for your brand
Four reasons Bengaluru beauty brands are evaluating bio-composite packaging.
Domestic procurement from a Bengaluru manufacturer means standard domestic freight, GST invoicing, and lead times measured in days — not weeks. No advance payment in foreign currency, no port clearance delays, no minimum container quantities.
India's Plastic Waste Management Rules (2016, amended 2021 and 2022) impose Extended Producer Responsibility on brands that use plastic packaging. A packaging material that contains no petroleum-derived plastic changes the EPR classification entirely. Your packaging consultant uses the material composition declaration to make that assessment.
Bengaluru brands exporting to the UK, EU, or Singapore need packaging documentation for compliance: TÜV SÜD bio-based certificate, CIPET mechanical test reports, material composition declaration. Agropak provides all three with evaluation kits and commercial orders. Your export documentation is built in from day one.
Premium D2C consumers in India are becoming more sceptical of generic "eco" claims. A jar made from coconut shell and bamboo, with a 93% bio-based content certificate from TÜV SÜD, is a specific, verifiable claim. Not a brand assertion — a third-party verified fact.
The testing was done in Bengaluru, by CIPET — a government-affiliated institute with no commercial interest in the result. 15,492 N compression strength and a passed 0.8 m concrete drop test are not marketing figures. They are the outputs of a test conducted under standard protocols, and we publish them because the number is what it is.
Agropak — on the CIPET test programme, Bengaluru, May 2026
Product specifications
The 50ml jar — what you are evaluating.
| Volume | 50 ml |
| Outer diameter | 63 mm |
| Height (jar) | 44 mm |
| Neck diameter | 42 mm |
| Wall thickness | 2.5 – 3 mm |
| Base thickness | 4 mm |
| Compression strength | 15,492 N CIPET, Bengaluru — May 2026 |
| Drop test | Passed 0.8 m concrete drop CIPET, Bengaluru — May 2026 |
| Shelf life | 2 years Internal validation — May 2026 |
| Bio-based content | 93% TÜV SÜD, Frankfurt — May 2026 |
| Colourways | Noir Black · Mocha Brown · Sandstone |
Face cream, body butter, balm, gel cream, sunscreen SPF 30+, night cream, hair mask. Internal compatibility study completed. Results available to brands conducting a formal evaluation — no commercial commitment required.
Standard 42 mm neck thread. Fits existing cosmetic jar filling equipment without modification. The jar dimensions are within the range of current South Indian fill line configurations.
Surface embossing, label position guidance, and colourway selection are discussed at the evaluation stage. Custom colourway and size discussions are handled separately — email [email protected].
Common questions
From Bengaluru beauty brands evaluating plastic-free packaging.
The first step is a jar in your hands.
Evaluation samples dispatched within 2 working days from Bengaluru. Sample pricing and domestic shipping charges apply. No commercial commitment required to begin.