Some most commonly worn garments in India include shirts, kurtas, sarees, coats, skirts, jeans, pants etc. Understanding the garment industry is essential to start a readymade garments manufacturing unit. Readymade garments manufacturing includes 3 basic stages- fabric cutting, sewing and the adornment of the stitched garment. These stages are further subdivided. Readymade garments manufacturing consists […]
In India, the key segments of the Food Processing industry are Food retail, the dairy sector, fruits and vegetables, poultry & meat processing, fisheries, etc. Most agricultural products that need processing are locally grown in different parts of the country. Major sectors in the food processing industry in India are edible oils, grains, sugar, beverages, […]
A milk processing unit processes raw milk through physical processes like pasteurisation, standardisation, homogenisation and packaging. Other subsequent stages of processing can be done within the processing unit to produce different dairy products like ghee, curd, cheese, ice cream, butter etc. After processing, when the milk is ready to be consumed, it is packaged and […]
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, in the 2022 Amendment to the Plastic Waste Management Rules, notified ‘Guidelines on Extended Producer Responsibility for Plastic Packaging’ in the Schedule II of the Rules. On 21 December 2022, CPCB issued a circular to producers, importers and brand owners (PIBOs)and plastic waste processors […]
In the leather business, one can either manufacture and process leather from animal hides involving several stages and thereafter the use of processed leather to manufacture leather clothing or for retail and/or the export of leather products. For the sake of the following write-up, we will be focussing on the leather processing industry. What is […]
It is easy to ascertain how vital water is for human survival. We use potable water for drinking, cleaning, washing, cooking, and recreational purposes. Though water is present in abundance in nature, human activities have rendered most of the natural sources of water unusable due to water pollution, with no options left in most cases […]
India is the largest manufacturer of generic drugs globally. The total annual turnover of the pharmaceutical industry in 2019-2020 was Rs. 2,89,998 crores. India is also one of the biggest suppliers of low-cost vaccines because of the low price and high quality. Indian medicines are preferred worldwide, rightly making the country the “Pharmacy of the […]
The growth in India’s paint sector has been an outlier in the overall domestic consumer space. India is the second largest paint market in the Asia-pacific region and is dominated by the decorative paint segment with approximately 75% market share. This differs from the global structure, where the decorative or architectural segment covers only 40% […]
There are three conditions where groundwater needs to be extracted- for drinking and domestic use, for mixed purposes (i.e. domestic and industrial processes) and for irrigation in agriculture. All industries/ mining/ infrastructure dewatering projects, whether existing/ new/ under expansion and drawing/ proposing to draw groundwater through energised means, need to obtain CGWA permission for groundwater […]
Roto printing and flexo printing are two of the most widely used printing technologies used in the printing market. Roto printing, also called rotogravure printing or gravure printing, is an intaglio printing process involving engraving an image onto an image carrier. Flexographic printing, on the other hand, uses a plate with a raised surface and […]