Khurja

Khurja is a small Town in the Bulandshahar District of Western Uttar Pradesh. The Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata established it’s Khurja Centre in August 1981 under an assurance for continuous financial support from the Government of Uttar Pradesh. This Centre is functioning to cater to the needs of developing creaming and allied industries in the state, particularly to the Ceramic Industries in the Small Scale and Rural Sector. Khurja having a 600 year old tradition of pottery manufacturing has now become a centre of Ceramic Industry having more than 494 units in the small-scale sector and one of the largest whiteware clusters in India. In it’s journey of nearly Three Decades, This Centre of CGCRI has contributed to a great extent in the modernization and All round Development of Ceramic Industries in Khurja on energy efficiency & Cluster Development.

Major Activities

• R&D towards standardization, evaluation and optimized utilization of the country’s resources related to ceramic raw materials for ceramic wares.
• To become a source of technical infrastructure
• Energy conservation
• Pollution control.
• Waste Minimization
• White-ware Cluster Development
• Undertake Sponsored Projects
• Development of appropriate rural technologies relevant to the social & economic needs of the country.
• Training & Demonstration Programmes
• Development of new low cost technologies by utilizing
  • Conventional Raw Materials
  • Non-conventional Raw Materials
  • Waste Raw Material.
  • Consultancy and technical assistance in
  • Solving day-to-day problems
  • Quality Improvement
  • Productivity Improvement
  • Product Design
  • Process Improvement
  • Energy Efficiency Improvement
  • Cost Reduction

Major Achievements

Development of :-

• Bone china porcelain.
• Low maturing stoneware body for manufacturing crockery
• Unglazed and glazed terracotta flooring and facing tiles.
• Low cost rural sanitary ware.
• Ceramic water filter candle from white and red burning clay.
• High strength black pottery.
• Glazed tableware by utilizing common clay.
• Low temperature glaze and frit.
• Different types of colour strength.
• Wood fired high efficiency cook stove.
• Matt glazed stoneware
• Raw bone calcination kiln
• Oil and gas fired chamber kiln for rural industry.
• Gas fired furnace for making glass beads and jewellery decoration.
• High alumina body for production of abrasive resistant tiles / ceramic ferrule etc.
• Fast fired body for making crockery ware
• Cordierite-Mullite kiln furniture.
• T&D programme on different aspects in the filed of ceramics.

Completed Projects

• Chemical Analysis.
• Physical Analysis.
• Firing Facilities.
• Grinding Facilities.
• Pressing Facilities.
• Trouble Shoot Team.
• Technical Information.
• Training cum demonstration Facilities in Stoneware/Bone China Ware/Glass Beads Making/ Refractories Manufacturing.
  Presently Institute is working on following parameters for the up-gradation of white ware cluster:
• Quality & Certification.
• Process Improvement.
• Consistency in Product.
• Firing Rejection.
• Energy Saving.
• Cost Analysis.
• Low Thermal Mass Kiln Cars.
• Knowledge Enhancement of Workman & Supervisors.
• Product Design Improvements.
• Awareness on packing, Calibration & Export Promotion.

Dr L.K.Sharma

Scientist In-charge

CSIR-CGCRI Khurja Centre

G T Road, Khurja 203131 (Uttar Pradesh)

Ph: +91 5738245433 / 232501

T-fax: 245081