Career Prospects

Plastics are utilized widely in the field of packaging, household consumer durables, electronics, automobiles, communication, machines and the machine tools industry. By international standards, India is lagging far behind in the production and utilization of thermoplastics, although the Indian plastics industry is rapidly catching up with world trends.

In the public sector, plastics engineers/technologists and technicians may find employment in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Oil and Natural Gas Commission, and Oil India laboratories, petrochemical engineering plants, Indian Institute of Petroleum, polymers corporations of different states, Petroleum Conservation Research Association of India, Petrofiles Cooperative limited and other such organizations.

Various private companies dealing with the production and marketing of plastic commodities also offer employment to plastics technologists and engineers.

The government of India has identified the petrochemicals industry as a `high priority' sector, owing to the fact that plastics play an important role in providing the basic necessities for everyday use, while conserving the scarce natural resources.

They also play a significant role in the key sectors of the economy, including agriculture and water management, automobiles and transportation, building and construction, telecommunications and electronics, besides defense and aerospace, computers and power transmission

The industry has enormous potential for growth; as of now, polymer use in India is far below the world level. With increasing competition in the world market and the constant drive to improve our living standards, the scope for use of plastics is bound to increase manifold.

Engineering, rubber technology.