The investment will provide employment to approximately 200 people out of which around 90% would be locals from the Region. The skilled employees have been hired from CIPET (Central Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology), a nationally recognised technical training institute, with prior ‘on the job' training in Essel's other units in India.

On the occasion Ashok Goel, Chairman and Managing Director said, "The new unit in Assam is a strategic investment, in-line with our stated objective of ‘go and grow' with customers. Several of our customers have set up units in Assam and our presence near them will facilitate servicing them better, besides opening up opportunities for developing markets in North-East India and surrounding countries.  This shall be the first Unit in our system which is equipped & designed to effectively service the ever-dynamic market demand, owing to new form of delivery/distribution system."
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