VIRUDHUNAGAR: It has been a cracker of a year for fireworks manufacturers in Sivakasi and surrounding areas this Deepavali season as they have recorded a combined sale of more than Rs 6,000 crore ...

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VIRUDHUNAGAR: A temporary facility for a raw materials/chemicals, composition, emissions (RACE) testing facility has been set up in Sivakasi in Virudh.

The ₹6,000-crore fireworks industry of Sivakasi, which has turned mainly into green crackers, is now planning to tap the international firecracker industry hitherto dominated by Chinese players ...

“We have been running our business in fear,” said N Kartheeswaran, the owner of Velavan Fireworks, established in 1983 in Sivakasi. “Our production has been less than 70% of the normal.

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi, which accounts for 90 per cent of the cracker industry in India, is staring at a black Diwali and equally dark uncertain future.

A file photo of a fireworks manufacturing unit in Sivakasi, which is said to record annual fireworks sales of ₹6,000 crore. mint India’s firecracker capital of Sivakasi is staring at a dark ...

Cracker ban spells gloom for Sivakasi. Manufacturers have been blindsided by the abrupt ban, announced days before Diwali, a season when the town in Tamil Nadu sells over 80% of its crackers; ...

Due to green crackers, the emission has reduced by 30 per cent, he said. Sivakasi manufactures fireworks valued at over ₹3,000 crore. The 1,070 units employ nearly three lakh employees directly ...

This Diwali will see green crackers taking centre-stage with the country’s fireworks hub here rolling out the eco-friendly varieties which have reduced emission of harmful chemicals and low ...