Pokarna Engineer Stone Limited (PESL), a manufacturer and exporter of premium quartz surfaces, and a subsidiary of 35-year-old Pokarna Limited, is all set to start a Rs 500 crore quartz surface manufacturing facility in Telangana.
Telangana Industries and IT Minister KT Rama Rao is scheduled to inaugurate the plant on Saturday. Located at Mekaguda near Hyderabad, the modern plant is spread over 1,60,000 square meters and has a built-up area of 6 lakh square feet.
Gautam Chand Jain, Chairman and Managing Director, PESL, said: “Our new factory is equipped with advanced patented Brettonstone technology from Italy, multiple robots and other high level process automation, supporting a wide range of Industry 4.0 applications.”
The company expects a turnover of around ₹400 crore from the plant. This facility will be primarily used for production of Super Jumbo size 346X200 cm and Jumbo size 330X165 cm slabs.
This is the company’s second quartz surface manufacturing facility. The first plant at APSEZ, Achutapuram, Andhra Pradesh was established in 2009.
PESL sells these quartz surfaces under the Quantra Quartz brand. It is an advanced composite material composed of up to 93 percent natural quartz, high quality binding polymer and heavy metal free pigments to form a new material.
“Like stone, Quantra can be precisely machined, allowing designers to innovate,” said Paras Kumar Jain, CEO, PESL.
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