INTRODUCTION

Glass Bangles are made out of block glass of different shades of colours or directly from batch materials. These are round in shape with pleasing colours and designs over the surface. It is customary for ladies, especially Indian ladies to wear bangles from their childhood for ornamental decoration.

MARKET POTENTIAL

Glass Bangles are the item of mass consumption throughout the country. The demand for the Glass Bangles generally goes up during festive season and specially functions, marriage occasions etc. In spite of the competition from plastic and other bangles, the demand for Glass Bangles is ever increasing in view of established characterised customary and auspicious status gained by it in the society. The demand of Glass Bangles in foreign countries is also increasing. It is expected that in near future, the demand of Glass Bangles in foreign countries will increase. As the production is based on manual operation and the necessary skills are available in the country only, this product while exporting may earn good revenue.

BASIS AND PRESUMPTION:

Following points are considered for the unit of this item:
i) The plant will run in single shift basis in 25 working days per month.
ii) Minimum applicable wages are considered for the workers.
iii) The rate of interest would be 12% on an average.
iv) 75% efficiency of Machinery & Manpower is considered and full capacity utilization is expected to be achieved within 12 months of commencement of commercial production.
v) The process of joining liquid gold, silver and other types of decoration have not been incorporated in the profile as these can be got down from number of cottage units on piece rate basis.

IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE

TECHNICAL ASPECTS

(i) Production Details & Process Of Manufacture: The process of manufacture of Glass Bangles is highly skilled labour oriented one, comprising of mixing of batch material like sand, soda, ash, lime, fedspar, borax etc. with other additives in suitable proportion, and melting in a pot furnace at a temperature of about 1350°C. The molten glass is drawn from the furnace with the help of iron pipe and formed into gob to get required quantity of glass for formation into parisons on iron plates. The parisons of different colours are joined together and reheated in an auxiliary furnace to obtain required designs. The reheated parisons is then transferred to ‘Belan Furnace’ from which the glass is further drawn into spirals of bangles on the spindle mounted and rotated manually at uniform rate of revolution synchronizing with the continuous supply of molten glass for formation of spiral at the other end of the furnace. The size of the bangles mainly depends upon the diameter of the spindle used in the formation of spirals. Spirals are then taken out from the spindle and cut to obtain bangles. The cut bangles are then send for joining of ends, finishing, decoration etc. The finished products are then neatly packed or made into toras for sale.

F. PROCESS FLOW CHART:

G. PRODUCTION CAPACITY
:i) Quantity (MT) :
ii) Value (Rs) :

3,00,000 toras of Bangles (per year)
1,38,00,000 (per year)

POLLUTION CONTROL NEEDS

In the batch house cyclonic dust collector is recommended to be used. However, exhaust and proper ventilation is required to be produced in every section,

ENERGY CONSERVATION

In comparison to conventional coal fired furnaces, Furnace Oil/ LDO/ Natural Gas Fired Furnace with heat insulation is more energy efficient.

FINANCIAL ASPECTS: Please see in the Microsoft Excel (attached) File

FINANCIAL ANALYSIS: Please see in the Microsoft Excel (attached) File.

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