Profile

Manaksia Limited (formerly Hindusthan Seals Ltd., incorporated in 1984) is a multi-division and multi-location conglomerate. It possesses 15 manufacturing plants in India and three abroad; two in Nigeria and one in Ghana. The company was promoted by Basant Kumar Agrawal and Suresh Kumar Agrawal. Presently, Basant Kumar Agrawal is the Managing Director of the Company. It is headquartered in Kolkata, India, and its shares are listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, the National Stock Exchange and the Calcutta Stock Exchange.

Manaksia specialises in the manufacture of packaging products (crowns, closures and metal containers), metal products and fast moving consumer goods, among others.

The company's metal packaging products include crowns, roll-on pilfer-proof closures, expanded polyethylene liners as well as push-open and other metal containers. In the fast moving consumer goods segment, the company is a dependable mosquito repellents outsourcing destination for the Mortein (owned by Reckitt Benckiser (India) Limited) and Maxo (owned by Jyothy Laboratories) brands.

The company has now diversified into the production of aluminium rolled products, secondary specification aluminium alloys and galvanised steel.

The company’s wholly owned subsidiary in Nigeria, MINL Limited, was set up in 1996 and is the market leader in ROPP caps and crown corks in Nigeria. It has also set up facilities for the manufacture of galvanised steel, metal colour coated sheets and coils and secondary specification aluminium alloys.

The company also has subsidiary companies in Ghana (Dynatech Industries Ghana Limited) and Dubai (Euroasian Ventures FZE).