MATCH BOX INDUSTRY

    The origin of the safety match industry in India goes back to the beginning of this century. Around 1910 immigrant Japanese families who settled in Calcutta began making matches with simple hand- and power-operated machines. Local people soon learned the necessary skills and a number of small match factories sprang up in and around Calcutta.

These small match factories could not meet the total requirements of the country however, and India began to import matches from Sweden and Japan. During the First World War, when Swedish matches could not be imported, the Indian market was fed mainly by imported matches from Japan and by the locally made ones which followed the Japanese pattern introduced in Calcutta.

•    INTRODUCTION
•    THE PRODUCTION PROCESS
•    RAW MATRIALS
•    PROPERTIES
•    B.I.S. SPECIFICATIONS
•    MARKET SURVEY
•    PRESENT MANUFACTURERS/EXPORTERS OF MATCH BOXES
•    KINDS OF MATCHES
•    PROCESS
•    QUALITY ASSURANCE IS OUR PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
•    PROCESS DESCRIPTION FOR THIS PROJECT
•    SCALE AND PROCESS
•    THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS
•    PRINCIPLES OF PLANT LAYOUT
•    PLANT LOCATION FACTORS
•    EXPLANATION OF TERMS USED IN THE PROJECT REPORT
•    PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULES
•    MANUFACTURERS/SUPPLIERS OF PLANT & MACHINERY
•    MANUFACTURERS/SUPPLIERS OF RAW MATRIALS

APPENDIX – A :

1.      COST OF PLANT ECONOMICS
2.      LAND & BUILDING
3.      PLANT AND MACHINERY
4.      FIXED CAPITAL INVESTMENT
5.      RAW MATERIAL
6.      SALARY AND WAGES
7.      UTILITIES AND OVERHEADS
8.      TOTAL WORKING CAPITAL
9.      COST OF PRODUCTION
10.      PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS
11.      BREAK EVEN POINT
12.      RESOURCES OF FINANCE
13.      INTEREST CHART
14.      DEPRECIATION CHART
15.      CASH FLOW STATEMENT