Strengthening Foothold of Indian Rubber Industry Across Overseas

Indian rubber industry is one of the fastest growingproducts manufacturers.
industries that have a million of opportunities to explore.As it is a booming industry, its demand can never face
Nearly 6000 rubber manufacturing units are set updecadence because it caters to a broad sector,
across various states of the nation. These unitsalmost every sector, including engineering, aviation,
together produce more than 35000 types of rubberaeronautics, pharmaceuticals, steel plants, railways and
items. Indian rubber manufacturers have transformedagricultural transport, mines, textiles, etc. the Indian
India into a leading exporter and supplier of rubberrubber industry is a core sector that plays crucial role in
products all across the world. The gamut of productsIndian economy with a turnover of USD 8 billions. The
manufacturing by Indian manufacturers include naturalindustry contributes USD 1.6 billions to the National
rubber, reclaim rubber, carbon black, synthetic rubber,Exchequer through taxes, duties and other similar
fatty acids, rubber chemicals, rayon, etc. Latexlevies. The industry bears some advantages that
products, auto tyres, tubes, belting, hoses, automobilegreatly contribute to its intensification, these are;o
parts, cable and wires, etc. are the products createdExtensive plantation sectoro Basic raw material
widely by rubber products distributors. Indian rubberavailable in abundanceo Ever increasing domestic
industry is broadly divided into two categories, tyre andmarketo Being a huge automobile hub, India generates
non-tyre.a substantial demand for rubber items including tyreso
India is the third largest rubber producer of the world.Availability of cheap labouro Training provided by
Rubber products manufactured by Indiantechnical instituteso On-going economic reformso
manufacturers do not only cater to the domesticImproving lifestyles of the masses
needs but its bulk proportion is supplied and exportedIn recent years, Indian rubber industry has experienced
to foreign countries by the Indian exporters. Mainly, thea growth of 8%, thereby giving more opportunities to
products are exported to the wide markets ofnovice to earn their livelihood through the industry and
countries like France, UAE, Italy, Germany, USA andstrengthening opportunities for those who already exist
UK. Saudi Arabia, Africa, Bangladesh and Afghanistanin it. India's strong technically trained manpower has led
are some of the leading importers of rubber who buyIndia to become a praiseworthy leading player in the
products from India. It is an atypical thing but rubberworld. Also, many institutions for education, training and
products' consumption in western countries hastesting are, in other way, helping the industry to flourish
reached to a saturation point. Therefore, thefurther. While India is the fourth largest consumer of
prospective market for India's export is graduallyrubber, the country is also a preferred destination for
shifting from western countries to Asian countries. Thissome of the biggest rubber companies as a
is again providing a huge scope to the Indian rubberconsequence of direct investments or technical tie-ups.