The Indian Institute of Packaging was established in the year 1966 jointly by the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India and the Packaging and Allied Industries in the country.The Institute was registered as a Society under the Societies Registration Act 1860, on 14th May, 1966.The Institute successfully introduced a number of services and kept on increasing the sphere of services already introduced. The objective set for the Institute was to bring about and sustain appropriate improvements in the standards of packaging particularly for exports.

The Institute is striving its best in this direction since its inception through various activities covering Applied Research, Training and Education, Information Services, Testing, Quality Control facilities, Package Development, Feasibility projects, Graphic design, Data centre, Technical and Techno Commercial publications etc.in the field of packaging. This has gone a long way in improving the standards of packaging in the country. In fact, the Institute today possess a considerable wealth of information and technical know-how in the field of packaging.