The All India handmade Paper Industries Association was formed in 1998 to ‘enable exchange between handmade paper produces and an expanding eco-friendly customer base’. It organizes an annual Paperex, which is an exhibition on handmade paper involving several industry participants and stakeholders. Their aim is to introduce handmade and recycled paper into government use, especially for diplomatic gifts and bureaucratic forms and ledgers, as well as lobby for greater research and development into handmade paper technologies.