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Union Ministry of MSME has taken a number of Technology based Initiatives Interventions to tackle COVID-19 challenge. These have resulted in effective response to Prime Ministers call of Atmanirbhar Bharat Make in India. With help of these initiatives and interventions country is now not only manufacturing enough Hand Sanitizer Bottle Dispensers PumpFlip for meeting almost all its sharply increased demand but also poised to export the same. They have also helped India in achieving Self-sufficiency in Hand-sanitizing materialsliquidgel and have contributed immensely in developingproducing auxiliary items like masks face-shields PPE Kits sanitizer box testing facilities etc.MSME Minister Shri Nitin Gadkari has complimented the Team MSME on these initiatives and achievements.Hand Sanitizer Bottle Dispenser PumpFlipDuring COVID-19 the demand for hand sanitizer and its bottles increased dramatically. Accordingly the demand for Bottle Dispenser pumps increased manifold 50 lakh per day. The pre-covid manufacturing capacity of bottle dispensers pumps in the country was at around 5 lakh per day. To meet the demand efforts were being made to import lot of dispensers from China. However the supply chain from abroad was totally disturbed which led to huge price rise Rs 30 per dispenser for such dispensers in the country. This resulted in hike of the prices of sanitizers in the Indian market. Sanitizer Bottle Dispenser is a plastic apparatus with plastic cap used for dispensing taking out the sanititzer material and capping the sanitizer bottle. Dispenser can be of 3 types viz. Pumps for spray Flip cap for gel Flip cap for liquid. Dispenser is having around 11 small components which are assembled. Barring a few components like ball spring and tubing remaining components are made on injection moulding machines. Assembly of all parts of pump is a challenge for proper functioning. On the other hand Automatic Assembly line is costly. Such dispensers have wide applications in FMCG sector as well. The suppliers of dispensers have long term supply commitments with FMCG companies. Therefore even globally only little capacities could be spared or supplied for sanitizer segment at the start of covid pandemic. Ministry of MSMEs InterventionRealizing this problem in the beginning of May 2020 Secretary MSME held several rounds of meetings with the stakeholders including Ministrys officials and Tool Rooms TRs and Technology Centers TCs. Meetings were also held with the industry including All India Plastic Manufacturers Association AIPMA All India Medical Devices Manufactures Association etc. to understand how to ramp up local manufacturing of dispensers. The private sector was motivated to expand the capacities. However it was realized that sudden increase in manufacturing is not possible. This situation was because the moulds were not available in the country. So far the industry was importing moulds also.MSME Ministry Motivated its Technology Centers TCs The TCs were motivated to take up this challenge and activity. Seven moulds were required for manufacturing the dispenser components.Ministry also approved grant for TCs for purchase of new machinery worth Rs. 26 crore for various products. TCs took the challenge of manufacturing the moulds for dispensers as Multi cavity 16 or 24 cavity moulds were not being manufactured in the country. To reduce the timelines the required seven moulds were parallelly distributed to a number of TCs located at various places Ahmadabad Ludhiana Aurangabad Jamshedpur Hyderabad Mumbai.The Outcome Two sets of the moulds of sanitizer pumps have been provided by our TCs to the industry for manufacturing Flip cap moulds of 30 mm and 24 mm were also developed by TC Ludhiana. Inspired by this now some private tool rooms are also manufacturing moulds.National Impact Because of the above today we are almost self sufficient in dispenser manufacturing. The current approx. manufacturing though dynamic is 40 lakh per day. Cost has come down to about Rs. 5.50 from about Rs. 30 in April-May 2020. Many Indian companies have started manufacturing and may have surplus stock. As per discussions with AIPMA the current consumption is over 50 lakh dispensers per day now people are also buying refills.It is now ready for Export Earlier there was ban on export of sanitizers with spray pump which is now lifted which means that we are now in a position to export.Achieving Self-sufficiency in Hand-sanitizing materialsAs part of its other major initiatives MSME Ministry contributed towards country achieving Self-sufficiency in production of Hand Sanitizing Material Liquidgel. It also created senitizer testing facility besides developing AyurvedicCosmatic Senitizers using natural aroma. The details in this regard are as below With the spread of COVID 19 the demand for hand sanitizer increased exponentially. The rates for retail market of sanitizer soared to highest level. There was huge shortage. The Government of India liberalized licensing for manufacturing of the sanitizers. Sugar Mills Distilleries FMCG were motivated to start manufacturing sanitizers. One Technology Centre of the Ministry of MSME namely Fragrance Flavour Development Centre FFDC at Kannauj was asked to take license for sanitizer and alcohol to manufacture sanitizer. It developed and manufactured the hand sanitizers as per WHO standards and supplied to the healthcare system in and around Kannauj. The Ministry of MSME provided funds to FFDC for purchase of packaging line and other equipment. FFDC followed the pricing guidelines of NPPA for the sanitizer. FFDC sold more than 90000 bottles 400 cans of Hand Sanitiser and supplied to the various Govt. Organization like Northern Railways Banks etc.
