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BIC Cello (India) Pvt Ltd, leading manufacturer of writing instruments, will invest ₹210 crore to set up its largest writing instruments facility at Vapi in Gujarat.
The pens’ manufacturing unit will be BIC Cello’s largest and its parent company Société BIC’s largest stationery facility in Asia. The proposed factory will have a built-up area of 30,000 sq m constructed on 28 acres. It is expected to become operational by the end of 2018, Ratanjit Das, General Manager, BIC Cello, said here on Thursday.
This new facility will introduce world-class manufacturing technologies to India and reinforce the company’s position as India’s No. 1 writing instruments brand, he said in a statement.
After completion of phase I in 2018, the new manufacturing unit in Vapi will produce over 400 million units of ball point pens and gel pens every year.
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