MATCH BOX INDUSTRY (AUTOMATIC PLANT)

    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.

After the war, factories in Calcutta were unable to compete with imports, and handmade match production shifted to southern India, especially in the Ramanathapuram and Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu State.

This shift was due to the pioneering efforts of P. Iya Nadar and A. Shanmuga Nadar who went to Calcutta to learn the process from Purna Chandra Ray, a local businessman, who had learned the trade in Germany. The Nadars set up a number of manual match production units in extremely poor regions of Tamil Nadu, where a combination of the dry climate, cheap labour and availability of raw materials from nearby Kerala created ideal conditions for match production. The first sulphur match that would bum when brought into contact with a rough surface was produced in South India in 1923, and the first safety match, in the form we know today, in 1932.

INTRODUCTION
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
PROCESSING AND ANCILLARY INDUSTRIES
AILANTHUS MALABARICA, DC
RAW MATRIALS
SUITABILITY OF WOOD REQUIRED FOR INDIAN MATCH INDUSTRY
PROPERTIES
B.I.S. SPECIFICATIONS
INDIAN AND GLOBAL MARKET POSITION OF MATCH BOXES
NUMERO UNO
UNUSUAL COMPETITOR
NON – EXTINGUISHING
DETAILED EXPORT DATA OF MATCH BOXES
DETAILED IMPORT DATA OF MATCHBOX
EXPORT OF SAFETY MATCHES
FUTURE OF MATCHBOX INDUSTRY
PRESENT MANUFACTURERS/EXPORTERS OF MATCH BOXES
KINDS OF MATCHES
PROCESS
QUALITY ASSURANCE IS OUR PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
PREPARATION OF SPLINTS AND BOXES
THE STANDARD FORMULATION FOR PREPARING TIP COMPOSITION
ARE AS FOLLOWS:
PREPARATION OF MATCH BOX SIDE COMPOUND
CONTINUOUS MATCH MAKING MACHINE
MANUFACTURE OF SAFETY MATCHES IN THE NON MECHANISED SECTOR
DIPPING OPERATION IN THE NON-MECHANISED SECTOR
PROCESS DESCRIPTION FOR THIS PROJECT
THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS
CUTTING THE MATCHSTICKS
TREATING THE MATCHSTICKS
FORMING THE MATCH HEADS
PACKAGING THE MATCHES
QUALITY CONTROL
THE FUTURE
PRINCIPLES OF PLANT LAYOUT
MAJOR PROVISIONS IN ROAD PLANNING FOR MULTIPURPOSE SERVICE ARE:
PLANT LOCATION FACTORS
PRIMARY FACTORS
SPECIFIC FACTORS
EXPLANATION OF TERMS USED IN THE PROJECT REPORT
PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULES
PROJECT SCHEDULING
PROJECT CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE
TIME SCHEDULE
COMPLETE SUPPLIERS OF PLANT & MACHINERY
FOREIGN SUPPLIERS OF MACHINERY
EXPORTERS AND SUPPLIERS OF MATCH SPLINTS (RAW MATERIALS)
POTASSIUM CHLORATE
POTASSIUM DICHROMATE
RED PHOSPHORUS
ADHESIVES
PRINTING INK

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
16.      PROJECTED BALANCE SHEET