Shobhan Mittal talked about the investments he has made in India and What have been the difficulties in those projects?

The biggest difficulty in India to set up new wood-based panel plants is of course the barriers set by the government. There is a lot of red tape, a lot of licenses required, and a lot of restrictions because of certain rulings of the Supreme Court which prevent industries being installed in certain areas close to natural forests. Then you need to have licenses from the Central Government as well as licenses from the State Government and various other government bodies. There are very stringent pollution policies, raw material policies.Getting more specific...

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Shobhan Mittal: About the Greenply Company's Beginnings?

Greenply was started with a small sawmill almost a quarter century ago. Our Chairman is a very competent man with regards to this industry. In fact, earlier he used to work with the top plywood company in the country, which was Kitply. He progressed on to become the Vice Chairman of that company, so he gained a lot of experience and expertise at that time. He is also the driver of a lot of the innovations in the plywood industry that India has seen. That experience and his dedication towards his work led him to form this company and he has driven that ever...

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