The Indian doors industry is largely fragmented unorganised and having lack of standardization. There are varieties of raw materials available for making of doors in India, e.g Wood, Boards, MDF, WPC/PVC, UPVC, Steel, Aluminium and Glass, but wood based or board based are the most common.
With the residential housing boom in India, the demand for doors would be phenomenal but most manufacturing units are regional, and have limited production capacity. India, yet to set up, an infrastructure, where a company can produce more than 2-5 lakhs sq ft doors every month, such as a Plywood, Particle Boards and MDF manufacturer does in terms of panel manufacturing. Some leading brands have planned in this direction, but the result is yet to be seen.
Due to scarcity of timber along with challenges of infrastructure, Flush doors producers have been facing limitations to increase the production capacity and they view that they can hardly produce 200 to 500 doors per day. Flush doors are the most common, having wide presence, reliable and trustworthy doors in India, on which you can apply decorative surface materials such as laminates, veneers, Membrane, Coating with all your design innovations etc.
Flush doors are sturdy, durable, BIS certified, and would be fire retardant and easy to install. Its mechanical and physical properties are suitable for Indian conditions, and it is a tasted and tried product. Since this category is fragmented and less concerned about education and awareness among users. If done so, this doors category has tremendous potential to dominate this market. If people drive a campaign, which highlight its benefit and usages along with mechanical and physical properties, results can be better.
Surface beauty have become another important feature for the doors segment, because of the growing charm of beautiful interiors, this industry has opportunities to create a niche in this segment. There are wide range of surface designs available for doors, that defines door category with materials like Laminates, PVC membrane, Decorative Veneers, HDF sheets, Moulded Panel, Digital prints, Foils paste, Coating, Deco Paint, Regular paints etc. Glass doors are mainly for office purposes, and Aluminium doors are known to cater economical grade market demand.
Solution and service also have significant importance for doors, which need to be addressed properly. Door Size is the biggest challenge, the doors producers can fix their sizes offering to convert this sector into standardize and organise industry. Seeing India's housing demand, doors manufacturing would be the most growing furniture basket in future.
This issue has lots of news reports on Plywood, MDF, Laminates, Doors, Timber, WPC, Hardware, Furniture etc which are exclusively available for Ply Reporter’s readers. The news reports are based on market research, survey, data analysis and facts, which are consistently observed by the Ply Reporter Team in the Wood Panel sector.
The interaction with Mr. Raj Patel, Director, Royale Touche; Mr. Ajay Khurana, MD, Formica India on new ideas of laminate showrooms are very much informative for trade and industries. Mr. Ankur Hora, Director, Ecoste WPC has announced the expansion of his WPC line on Italian Technology. The Product launches from the house of Greenply, Action Tesa, Dexarte, etc has also covered many happenings in the wood and decorative panel sector.
Hope for a prosperous FY24 for all. See you at Interzum, Germany at the Ply Reporter booth. Make your presence with presentation of your product in Matecia 2023, New Delhi.
Rajiv Parashar
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