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Bombay Dyeing

Autor Reviews | 19.07.2010 | Category Manufacturing

Bombay Dyeing is one of India’s largest producers of textiles. The daily production at Bombay Dyeing exceeds 300,000 meters of fabrics and it has a distribution chain consisting of 600 plus exclusive shops spread all over the country. Bombay Dyeing, exports to advanced countries such as USA, countries in European Union, Australia and New Zealand, and its sales turnover is more or less equally divided between National and International markets. Apart from the textiles, Bombay Dyeing also deals in the chemicals.

Bombay Dyeing is part of the Wadia Group, which is more than 250 years old. Wadia Group initially ventured into the area of ship building, and more than 355 ships were designed and built by the Group. As the industrialization grew in the 19th century, so did the trading, and new opportunities for business. In the late 19th century, Bombay was one of the major cotton ports of the world. Nowrosjee Wadia sensed an opportunity in India’s mushrooming textile industry and on August 23, 1879, Bombay Dyeing was founded in a humble redbrick shed. Since then, Bombay Dyeing has grown into one of India’s largest producer of textiles. The company also diversified and pioneered the manufacturing of various chemicals.

The Company’s principal activities are milling, processing and spinning of yarn and weaving of grey cloth. The Company supplies branded household textiles through the retail textile networks in the country. Besides home textiles, the Company also caters to the requirements of ready made garment industry and supplies micro dot interlining. The Company produces DMT (polyester material) and supplies the same as a raw material to various polyester units that use batch polymerization in their manufacturing process. The Company opearates in three segments, namely, Textile, Polyester and Real estate. The Company operates in India.

The following subsidiaries/companies operate as a part of the Bombay Dyeing Portfolio.

The Bombay Dyeing Mfg. Co. Ltd, go Air, Bombay Dyeing – DMT, National Peroxide Ltd., Bombay Burmah Trading Corpn Ltd, Britannia Industries Ltd, Wadia BSN India Ltd, Formica India Division, B.R.T Ltd, BCL Springs Division, Afcoset Balances Division, Afco Industrial and Chemicals Ltd, Dental Products of India, Medical Microtechnology Ltd, Instruments Orthopaedics, Gherzi Eastern Limited

Hawkins Cookers

Autor Reviews | 16.07.2010 | Category Manufacturing

Hawkins Cookers Limited is a company in India which manufactures domestic pressure cookers and cookware. The Company’s principal activity is the manufacture and sale of kitchenware. It’s products are pressure cookers and cookware. The company has three manufacturing plants at Wagle estate Thane, Hoshiarpur and Jaunpur. It manufactures under different brand names of Hawkins, Futura, Contura and Ventura. The company is the largest cookware manufacturer in India and exports its products to more than 60 countries.

Hawkins Cookers Ltd was incorporated in 1959 as a private limited company. Eventually the company was converted into a public limited company in 1975 and changed to the present name. Its product portfolio comprises of Hawkins Pressure Cooker, Hawkins Inframatic Cusinettes, Idli Sets, Hawkins Pressure Cooking Masalas. PCA Engineers Ltd. a subsidiary company of Hawkins Cookers Ltd, was merged with the company during 1993.

Hawkins has sold over 33 million pressure cookers worldwide. Today, it makes 53 different models of pressure cookers in 8 different types. All Hawkins pressure cookers are listed by Underwriters Laboratories Inc., USA, a not-for-profit institution testing products for public safety.

Each pressure cooker made by Hawkins features an inside fitting lid.  This design is inherently safer than conventional pressure cookers.  To open any Hawkins cooker, you have to first lower the lid slightly into the body of the cooker; and that cannot be done until the steam pressure inside the cooker falls to a safe level.  Thus Hawkins pressure cookers are pressure-locked for safety – like a jetliner door!

The company is traded on the Bombay Stock Exchange under the symbol HWKN. It has raised funds through “fixed deposits”, a term for high-interest term deposits issued by industrial companies rather than banks

The company plans to put more efforts at export front besides saving in energy expenses at its plant possible. It is also to emphasize on research & development activity for product development.

Bajaj Hindustan Limited

Autor Reviews | 12.07.2010 | Category Manufacturing

Bajaj Hindustan Limited, a part of the Bajaj Group, is a sugar and ethanol manufacturing company in India. The Company uses sugarcane to create ethanol that can be used as a complementary green fuel to gasoline. The Company generates power sugarcane bagasse waste, which is then fed to its homes and factories through the Uttar Pradesh state grid. The Company has 10 sugar plants, which are all located in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It has a sugarcane crushing capacity of 96,000 tons crushed per day (tcd). The Company also uses sugarcane waste to complement chemical fertilizers that deplete the soil of minerals.

The sugar plants are located at Golagokarannath, Palia Kalan and Khambarkhera (district Lakhimpur Kheri), Barkhera (district Pilibhit), Kinauni (district Meerut), Gangnauli (district Saharanpur), Thanabhavan and Budhana (district Muzaffarnagar), Bilai (district Bijnore) and a new Unit that commenced operations this sugar season of 2007-08 at Maqsoodapur (district Shahjahanpur).  These ten plants have an aggregate sugarcane crushing capacity of 96,000 tcd (tonnes crushed per day).

BHL is India’s largest ethanol producer.  It is the pioneer of India’s fuel ethanol programme. BHL is currently producing 34.24 million litres of ethanol in a year.   In anticipation of emerging market demand, the Company has increased its ethanol manufacturing capacity to nearly 218 million litres per year.

BHL generates 397 MW of power from the bagasse produced in its sugar mills.  After meeting its own energy needs, BHL has a surplus of over 90 MW.  The Company has already begun to supply a significant part of this surplus power to the UP state grid.

BHL’s wholly owned subsidiary, Bajaj Eco-tec Products Limited (BEPL), is gearing up to start production of environment-friendly Medium Density Fibre Boards (MDF) and Particle Boards (PB), both from its bagasse waste, by early 2008.  Both MDF and PB are invaluable substitutes for wood in construction and furnishing.  The manufacturing of MDF and PB will be a trail-blazing BHL venture in India. It will protect and preserve India’s forests from commercial exploitation by the construction and furniture industries. A 50,000 cubic metre MDF plant saves one lakh mature trees from being cut down in a year.