Looking huge and ever-growing popularity and rapid businesses associated with the cow dung-based paints in India and abroad, percipient and ambitious entrepreneurs might be thinking about setting up the paint manufacturing units. The KVIC will also be helping such enthusiastic entrepreneurs in establishing cow dung paint manufacturing units in rural regions. Other businesses related with the requisite raw materials, machines, transportations, distributorships, retailing, etc., of these dung-based paints may also be started profitably. The cost of setting up such a paint manufacturing unit is around 15 lacs. KVIC (Khadi and Village Industries Commission) too has plans to set up 500 paint manufacturing units in next six months in rural regions across India, with help of ardent entrepreneurs.
As far as the cow dung paint manufacturing machines are concerned, reliable information of these can readily be found from the Kumarappa National Handmade Paper Institute (KNHPI), Jaipur, Rajasthan-302029; the KVIC unit which has invented the India’s first cow dung based paints. This KNHPI also provides proper training for cow dung paint manufacturing; currently, it is the only center in entire India to offer these training facilities. Information about the manufacturers, suppliers, dealers, and exporters of these cow dung paint manufacture machines can also be obtained from KNHPI. Some of the machines employed for producing the cow dung distemper and emulsion paints, are the following --- Double Disc Refinery, Twin Shaft Machine, Blender, Pug Mill, etc.
