FACILITY LOCATION OF BALLARPUR INDUSTRY LIMITED (yamunanagar)

  BALLARPUR INDUSTRIES LIMITED, popularly known

as BILT is efficiently managed, financially sound, and self sufficient and self made company.

Ballarpur Industries Ltd. (BILT) promoted by LM Thapar. The Thapar Group is one of the leading business

houses in India with in the Thapar Group. . It has a turn over of Rest 5000/- Cores; BILT is one of the leading companies.

The Thapar Group has a wide range of activities like paper, engineering, electronics, textiles, chemicals, glass, telecommunications, biotechnology, leather etc.

Introduction

Ballarpur Industries Ltd. (BILT) promoted by LM Thapar, is the leader in Indian paper industry with an annual production capacity of 460000 MT spread over in five manufacturing facilities produces ordinary and superior varieties of writing, printing and specialty papers etc. The company is also backwardly integrated with its Caustisoda/Chlorine manufacturing facility, which is a vital material consumed in the production process of paper.

BILT, which is originally incorporated in 1945 as Ballarpur Straw consumed in the production process of paper.

Asia’s 3rd largest paper mill.

Process of paper manufacturing

Preparing the wood:

Bark is removed from the logs in large,rotating drums and then made into woodchips ready for pulping

How is the pulp made?The pulping process breaks down woodchips into usable fibres and waste products.Mechanical pulping uses a grinding processto separate the fibres and is mainly used forlow cost, short life products likenewspapers. Chemical pulping‘cooks’ thechips to separate the fibres and is usedmainly for high quality products like modo papers.

Preparing the pulp

After making the pulp, it is prepared for thepaper machine. This involves ensuring themix of fibres is correct, refining the pulp,mixing in additives like fillers and chemicalsand finally cleaning.

Sheet formation

The pulp slurry (pulp, chemicals and water)is sent on a wire, or most commonlybetween 2 wires. The fibres are positioneddue to the speed difference between the pulpflow and wire(s).

Removing the water

At the start of the process the pulp slurry isapproximately 98% water. The water isremoved by three methods: suction,pressure on the paper sheet and heat.

Sizing agent solution (usually starch) isadded to the paper on the size press. Thepaper is sized by roller pressure in thecalendaring section size press. Thisoptimises the printing surface. Sometimesadditional treatments are made (offmachine), e.g. coating and / or

supercalendaring.

Creating the right surface

Making the rolls of paper

The finished paper is wound into jumboreels, then split into smaller customer reels.The individual reels are finished with aprotective wrapper for transport andstorage.

Factor affecting the

facility location

1) Low capital to set up industry (11250 us$)2) low labour cost,Hard working labour too.

3) Timber source available. 4) Transportation facility (Railway facility) 5) availability of space 6) nearness to industrial area 7) Civic facility