While the first unit for corrugated packaging in the world was set up as early as 1905, the manufacturing process of corrugated box in India started only in the early fifties. It started in a small way with box making units located only in Calcutta and Bombay and supplying boxes to users all over the country. It was not unusual for boxes to be shipped from Bombay to Delhi .  Infact even in those days corrugated boxes were mainly made using imported sheets from countries like Sweden , with only the scoring, cutting and stitching being done here. Later a few manufacturers imported corrugating machines and started manufacturing corrugated sheets which were then converted to boxes by themselves and other smaller box makers who bought sheets from them.

The growth of the industry was rapid from the late fifties through the early sixties, because of the thrust given to industrialisation by the government after independence. However the acceptance of corrugated boxes as a substitute for wooden boxes or other conventional packaging was neither easy nor immediate. This was mainly due to a wrong perception of high cost and poor strength properties. However with consistent efforts this impression was rectified and advantages of this highly economical very flexible and high strength product were soon recognised in the market place. It was then only a matter of time that the consumer goods like toothpastes, soaps, detergents, oil cans, and hundreds of other items came to be despatched in corrugated boxes.

This acceptance led to the boom in the corrugated packaging sector.  With surging demand, new box makers came in to set up box making capacity.  With high growth rates, the industry soon spread geographically and took roots at manufacturing centres across the country and newer units came up in the vicinity of consuming centres and remote industrial towns.  Thus it was that from a handful of boxmakers in the late fifties the strength of the corrugated packaging industry grew to hundreds by the mid sixties

Today there are a few thousand corrugated packaging units spread all over the country of which about a thousand are members of FCBM.  The Industry continues to grow at a healthy pace with a strong  involvement of the Federation, armed for the future with both technology and perspective.