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TABLE 2
HNGL MANUFACTURING LOCATIONS AND CAPACITIES

Plant State Installed Capacity Number of
Furnaces Bhongir in the state of Andhra
Bahadurgarh Haryana ( North India) 650 TPD 3 Pradesh, the company operates
Rishikesh Uttrakhand ( North India) 400 TPD 2 two furnaces, each capable of
Neemrana Rajasthan ( North West India) 200 TPD 1 500 metric tonnes, which makes
Rishra West Bengal ( East India) 650 TPD 3 it the largest container glass plant
Nasik Maharashtra ( West India) 975 TPD 2 in the country at a single location.
Puducherry Tamil Nadu ( South India) 350 TPD 1 With Hyderabad and Bhongir
Naidupeta Andhra Pradesh ( South India) 650 TPD 1 facilities put together, AGI has a
capacity to produce 1,600 tonnes
of container glass per day.
Glass and Can Pack India, an at the company’s Nasik plant.
Indian subsidiary of polish pack- In 2011, HNGL had acquired PIRAMAL GLASS
aging producer Can Pack, are the German-based Agenda Glass Gujarat-based Piramal Glass is
four largest container glass pro- AG, which has a 320 tonnes per the third largest producer in the
ducers in the country. These four day capacity plant at Gardelegen, country. With an installed capac-
companies account for about 65 making bottles for Jagermeister ity of 695 tonnes per day from its
percent of the total capacity for herbal liqueur and Gorbachev Indian operations, Piramal Glass
the industry. HNGL has plants vodka, among other brands. The is a global leader in delivering
spread all across India, while acquisition cost HNGL 50 mil- world-class packaging solutions
AGI Glasspac, Piramal Glass lion EUR. Last year, HNGL sold for the perfume and pharmaceu-
and Can Pack’s manufacturing its Agenda Glass operations for ticals businesses.
facilities are located in the state 23 million EUR. Piramal Glass has two major
of Andhra Pradesh (one facil- facilities at Kosamba and
ity in the newly created state AGI GLASSPAC Jambusar in the West India state
of Telangana), Gujarat and AGI Glasspac is the second of Gujarat, both of which are
Maharashtra, respectively. largest producer in the country. strategically located near major
The company meets the packag- seaports.
HINDUSTAN NATIONAL ing needs of food, pharmaceu- The Kosamba facility has a
GLASS & INDUSTRIES LIMITED ticals, soft drinks, spirits, beer, capacity of 340 tonnes per day of
Hindustan National Glass & wine and other industries. With container glass from six furnaces
Industries Limited ( HNGL) is two state of the art manufactur- – three each for pharmaceutical
the largest container glass pro- ing facilities, one in Hyderabad and cosmetics and perfumery.
ducer in the country with a pan and the other at Bhongir (state of Piramal Glass’s Jambusar facil-
India manufacturing presence. Andhra Pradesh) both strategi- ity has a designed capacity of
The company operates container cally located in South – Central 355 tonnes per day of container
glass manufacturing plants in all India, the company has a major glass for pharmaceutical glass.
the strategic regions of the coun- market share of container glass It has one of the world’s largest
try. HNGL production facili- market in the Southern part of installed capacity for pharmaceu-
ties are located at Rishra (state the country. tical packaging in amber glass.
of West Bengal), Bahadurgarh At their Hyderabad plant, Piramal Glass also operates
(state of Haryana), Rishikesh AGI operates two furnaces with container glass manufacturing
(state of Uttrakhand), Neemrana capacities of 350 metric tonnes facilities in USA and Sri Lanka.
(state of Rajasthan), Nashik and 250 metric tonnes. At its In USA, Piramal Glass’s plants
(state of Maharshtra), Naidupeta second manufacturing facility at are located at Flat River, Missouri
(state of Andhra Pradesh) and
Puducherry (a union territory
within the state of Tamil Nadu).
In a major expansion exercise
in 2012, HNGL added two fur-
naces with a combined capacity
of 1,300 tonnes per day. One
furnace with a 650 tonnes per
day capacity was installed at its
Greenfield plant at Naidupeta in
Andhra Pradesh, while the other
came as a brownfield expansion

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