With more plants, Kajaria aims to increase footprints on its tiles.

Kajaria Ceramics, one of India’s leading floor-and-wall tile makers, which grew rapidly in the past five years to make a ₹2,400-crore turnover in 2014-15 in spite of the dullness in the construction sector, is in an expansion mode.

The company, which made a big leap by branching off into vitrified tiles, is opening its ninth manufacturing facility next month at Virat Nagar in Rajasthan. It recently announced the setting up of a plant for polished vitrified tiles near Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh. This plant will be operational in two years.

'We are also thinking of setting up a manufacturing facility in eastern India so that we can easily reach our customers in the East and North-East,' Rish Kajaria, joint managing director of the company, told Business Line. This will add to the geographical spread of the manufacturing facilities and ease logistical bottlenecks.

'We are the number one tile manufacturer in the country and we want to increase our footprint all over the country,' he said. 'The strategy of having plants in different parts of the country has paid off very well because it helps us to take our products to the dealers and customers faster.'

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