Footwear major Liberty walks in to ceramic sanitary wares market
19 Sep '05
3 min read
On the scope of expansion, Mr. Gupta said, “The latest estimate drawn up by Development Panel of Ceramics, the demand of ceramic sanitary ware has reached approx 1,60,000 tons per annum and is expected to rise to approx 2,58,000 tons by 2007 leaving a good scope for Liberty Whiteware to create additional capacity. This apart, there will be huge investments to be made in Infrastructure sector as well as renovation of old buildings into multi- storeyed apartments, the exports of sanitary ware have shown a consistent upward trend in recent years which also gives us a great opportunity to leverage in the years ahead.”
“Neemrana is the ideal place for producing sanitary ware due to several factors like availability of land, raw materials, power, gas, construction materials at reasonable price, well developed infrastructure facilities, manpower and connectivity with rail, road and air transport. Encouraged by the support extended by the Bureau of Investment Promotion, Government of Rajasthan, Liberty Group chose Rajasthan to set up this plant at Neemrana. Besides, the project site also offers satisfactory weather conditions for producing high quality sanitary ware products,” he added.