The main industry of Morbi is ceramic manufacturing, with six hundred manufacturing units flanking the 8/A National highway. The main products of Morbi are ceramic tile, vitrified tiles, floor tiles, glazed wall tiles, Luster wall tiles, sanitary wares, porcelain tiles, spartek tiles, glaze tile, roofing tiles and mosaic tiles. Morbi's ceramic factories belong to small and medium scale units but together they have the largest ceramic production in India.
A major industry of Morbi is clock manufacturing. Ajanta Clocks and Samay Clocks are two of the world's largest clock manufacturers and lead the clock manufacturing industry. The majority of these companies' workforce consists of females from neighbouring villages. Goods are manufactured and exported nationally and internationally, with major international shipments to Middle-East, and East Asia. Some of the tile manufacturers like Lavish ceramics, Silk Ceramics, Croma floor tiles, Varmora tiles, Face Groups, Deco Groups,Gangotri group, Kaveri and Oreva lead in the tiles industries. Also in sanitary wares it has big names like Simpolo, Solo, Sonara, Sonet, Eros, Sona, Sorona etc. Also many import -export units are in morbi like FACE IMPEX PVT LTD.
Today Morbi alone produces 80% of the country's gross ceramic production and around 80% of compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) production. There are around 550 ceramic manufacturing unit alone in Morbi which is considered to be an industry worth 40,000 million rupees (4,000 crore) annually. In end of 2009 here would be add more 40 to 50 ceramic factories in this ceramic zone.
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