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Kathmandu. After traveling about 45 kilometers west from Ranjha Airport in Nepalgunj via the Postal Highway, a huge industrial structure is visible in the countryside. Large machines, large storage houses, and some transport vehicles with effective security arrangements at the gate are also visible within the same industrial complex. More than 300 technicians, employees, and laborers are found working day and night inside the structure spread over 12.5 bighas of land.
Ultimate and high-quality vitrified laminar tiles are prepared there by mixing large machines and chimneys imported from Europe and China, some raw materials imported from India, and clay brought from the Dadeldhura mine. .
A few businessmen, who have a different mindset from those who believe that investing in Nepal today will earn huge profits within a short time, have jointly established Lumbini Ceramics Limited in Gulariya Municipality-8, Bardiya, a core rural area of Lumbini Province, with an investment of about four billion. And the name of the modern tile of the indigenous brand produced by this industry is Laminar.
In an environment where the idea of ‘earn today, eat today’ is dominating, Subrata Dhital, Abhinav Churiwal, Shyamsundar Khaitan, Ashutosh Khaitan, Shini Khaitan, Shashi Chiruwal and Sirjana Aryal and some other partners seem to have invested four billion rupees with great courage.
Investment, production capacity and Marketing
Subrata Dhital has 31 percent share in the company, while Shyamsundar Khaitan, Ashutosh Khaitan, Shini Khaitan, Shashi Churiwal and Sirjana Aryal have investments. The industry is producing attractively designed vitrified laminar tiles in more than 500 items. The company claims that it is 99.92 percent waterproof. Lumbini Ceramics Limited, which started production on Asoj 1, 2081, can be considered the youngest and largest industry in the country. Laminar tiles, which are a blend of Nepaliness and Nepali heart, are being sold and distributed through more than 100 dealers across the country after 2 months.
According to Abhinav Churiwal, the owner of Lumbini Ceramics, the company can produce 41.5 million square feet of tiles annually. And the industry is preparing to use 80 percent of its capacity in the first year itself. Stating that the goal is to deliver these tiles to the homes of Nepalis, he explained the entire process of making tiles. ‘The industry processes various types of clay as raw materials, mixes them, heats them in a kiln to develop them into gas, mixes them with water, then develops them into tiles, burns the tiles, cools them, washes them, colors them, prints them, checks their quality and finally packages them,’ said Churiwal.
The tiles of various varieties prepared in this way can be used in all places such as individual homes, airports, complexes, malls, hospitals, apartments, etc.
Currently, Laminar brand tiles are priced at Rs. They are reaching consumers for Rs 80 to 200. According to Churiwal, this price is up to 20 percent lower than imported tiles.
The company’s board of directors includes Subrata Dhital as the chairman, Shyamsundar Khaitan, Ashutosh Khaitan, Shini Khaitan, Shashi Churiwal and Sirjana Aryal. Before the Corona period, Indian tiles were occupying 99% of the market share in Nepal, and at that time, tiles worth Rs 10.5 billion were imported. And it is said that the tile market in Nepal is growing by around 10 percent every year. The company is preparing to make Laminar vitrified tiles available through hundreds of its dealers across the country within the next two months.
#Import substitution and self-reliance goal
Subrata Dhital, chairman of the industry, also said that the investment was made with the aim of replacing tile imports and making the country self-reliant in tiles. He said that they dared to do so even though they knew that investing in industries in Nepal meant taking a big risk. “Urbanization is increasing in Nepal, the standard of living of citizens is improving, the tile market is expanding, so let’s use this opportunity and make some contribution to the country, so we are ready to invest four billion,” said Chairman Dhital.
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