Lifeline: A feminine employee supervises the stick-filling and boxing operations of Satur’s semi-mechanical match squad. This matching unit is among the largest employment suppliers in Virudhunagar, Thoothukudi and Tirunelveli districts after agriculture and fireworks. |Photograph credit score: G. Moorthy
The booming security match business celebrated its one centesimal anniversary final 12 months. Match manufacturing, which is among the greatest sources of employment after agriculture and fireworks within the southern districts of Virudhunagar, Thoothukudi and Tirunelveli, has been mechanized over time. Nonetheless, the business stays labor intensive because of small feeder models situated at completely different places in these districts. Favorable weather conditions and a powerful workforce contributed to the business’s prosperity.
It’s fascinating how this area turned the match manufacturing base for the whole nation. Entrepreneurial cousins A. Shunmuga Nadar and P. Aya Nadar traveled to Calcutta in 1922 and stayed for eight months to study the know-how of match making. They returned dwelling and opened their first match manufacturing unit in Sivakasi in 1923. They imported uncooked supplies to scale back their dependence on overseas know-how and make cheaper matches.
