Birla Tyres resumes production in Orissa

Birla Tyres, a unit of the BK Birla group company Kesoram Industries, resumes its production from the Orissa unit in Balasore from Monday. This would a big time for the employees those were not paid during the close down.

Birla Tyres had closed down its Orissa plan temporarily till January 31 due the the impact of global financial crisis and the falling in the sales. Over 4,000 people including 2,200 regular employees are working in the Birla Tyre plant, located in Balasore, Orissa.

The company unit in Orissa has capacity of1.50 million tyres, tubes and flaps per year. The unit has been exporting around 30 per cent of its production to 43 countries in the world.