Morbi, Gujarat has been hub for Decorative Laminates manufacturing with 35 manufacturing establishments. Report suggests that manufacturing units located in Morbi is upbeat to increase their manufacturing capacity by adding more presses, daylights and new establishments. Machineries manufacturers confirmed the order of 11 new presses where as some manufacturers are adding daylights to increase their capacity.
Morbi has been emerging HPL manufacturing hub since 2010, and till 2020 most of units having 1 press capacity, but post Covid, they understand the need of at least 2 presses to run the plant smoothly to reduce their overhead cost.
Mr. Kanji Patel from Rebecca Laminate views that he is adding one press to fight the competition in the market. He has been offering 2 brands in 1 mm and one brand in 0.8 mm along with liner laminates, hence he has having more than 1500 designs in his bouquet. He says to maintain such range at affordable prices, he has to add the capacity, and it has become essential for further sustainability in market.
It is noted that Morbi based manufacturers mainly focus to West and South based market because of their good service and supply. Due to hub of tiles manufacturing, they have advantage over supply of materials to these market in minimum time. Better service, illustrious working and good design innovation have been helping Morbi based HPL unit to sustain and grow further in laminate industry, and they are going to add another 10 lakhs sheets every month in 2021.