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Leather Travelling Bag

Product Code : 293101000
Quality and Standards : As per buyers specification
Production Capacity : Quantity: 30000 pieces (per annum)
Value: Rs. 32400000
Uploaded on : March 2007

Introduction

Travelling bag is one of the convenient goods used for carrying the belongings such as clothes, daily-use articles and other essentials during travelling from one place to other. Some other types of products are also used for carrying important documents and office use equipments by the executives and high profile personnel. Although this product is manufactured from various types of materials such as textile, jute, coated fabrics, yet leather travelling bag is having wider acceptance due to its superior strength, aesthetic look and up-man-ship among middle and high-income group people. A wide range of travelling bags are in use for various purposes. The cost of the leather bags depends upon the type of leather, space and/or style of it. This project aims at manufacturing two types of bags i.e.:

(i)

Bags of single large pocket with one or two zips usually made from heavy cow or buffalo leather and

(ii)

Bags of multi pockets with interlining and re-enforcement, flap type, fitted with magnetic press buttons, commonly made from cow nappa leather.

Market Potential

The demand of the leather travelling bag is increasing day-by-day in tune with the growth of industrialization, economic standards of people, tourism and fashion consciousness. The important customers of such products are medium and high-income group people belonging to service, business and executive classes. The products with a price range of Rs. 400 to Rs. 2,500 are commonly seen in the market. The proposed product with the price of about Rs. 600 to Rs. 800 is felt quite acceptable with reasonable quality. Further, export worthiness of this product is quite substantial with qualitative and latest designed ones. A small manufacturer can have tie-up with any exporter merchant in the country for executing the order as per the specified design. There is an ample scope of leather travelling bag units with easy and considerably cheaper availability of indigenous raw material and skilled manpower.

Basis and Presumptions

This project profile has been prepared on the basis of following assumptions:

1. Working Hours : Double shift(8 hour per shift) of 16 hours a day for 300 working days in a year
2. Capacity Utilisation : 60% during first year
70% during second year
80% during 3rd year and onwards
3. Entrepreneur : Anybody having knowledge/experience of leather goods and/or venture to start leather based units.
4. Location : Anywhere in India, preferably nearby any tannery pocket or export facility zone.
5. Land and Building : Own
6. Raw Materials : Chrome tanned heavy cow or buffalo bag leather and softy cow nappa leather.
7. Salary and Wages : All employees are paid on monthly basis at prevailing rates of leather industry
8. Transportation and Taxes on purchase : Not Included in purchase price.
9. Power Charges : Rs. 4 per KWH from power supply source
10. Depreciation : 5% on building and civil construction
10% on plant and machinery
25% on tools and equipments
20% on furniture and fixture
10% on other fixed assets
11. Margin Money : 30% of total capital investment
12. Interest Charges : 15% has been calculated on total capital investment considering the opportunity cost of margin/equity money.
13. Fixed Cost for BEP Analysis : 100% rent, insurance, interest and depreciation
40% of total salary and wages
40% of total utilities and other Contingent expenses excluding rent and insurance.

Implementation Schedule

Sl. No. Activity Period (in months)
1. Site selection, negotiation with landlord, market survey preparation of project report and other formalities 2
2. Seeking quotation of machines, purchase and installation 2
3. Trial production, arranging working capital, Procurement of raw material and market tie up 2
  Total period required for commencing commercial production 6

Technical Aspects

Process of Manufacture

The leather travelling bags proposed to be manufactured in this project are mainly of two types. One is of single large pocket with a space of 3 to 6 ft. fitted with one or two fasteners and a long strap handle and other one is of multi-pockets (3 to 5) fitted with different types of fasteners like zips, velcro or press buttons. While heavy cow or buffalo bag leather with the thickness of 2.0 to 2.5mm without lining is preferred for making the former, the softy type of leather like cow nappa leather with the inter-lining and reinforcement is usually used for the later.

First of all the components are cut from suitable materials. The basic raw material is the finished leather, which is not uniform, irregular in shape and size, variation with grain structure and presence of defects on the surface. On the other hand, the components are generally regular or rectangular shape and the adjacent components should have similar shade and structure. Therefore, necessary care should be taken in cutting the components. The cut components are then skived to the edges for ease of folding and/or stitching. The edges are then beaded and the zips and other fasteners attached as per the specification. The outer surface (leather), the inner surface (lining) and the re-enforcement materials if required so, are attached first with the adhesive and then by stitching. The linings and thread-ends are trimmed and sealed. The surface is cleaned and polished and made ready for packing.

Quality Control and Standards

The quality of this product has to be maintained as per buyer's specification. However, the main criteria for quality control are selection of suitable materials, (especially the leather with required thickness, shade, strength and softness) cutting components from suitable portions of leather, uniform folding, fastener attachment, regular stitching with suitable thread with
specified stitch length and finishing.

Production Capacity (per annum)

i) Leather travelling bag single pocket with one long and two small handles (20"x5"x18") 18000 Pcs. of Rs 18000000.
ii) Leather travelling bag-multi pocket flap type with one longand two small handles (18"x5"x15") 12000 Pcs. of Rs. 14400000

Motive Power

10 HP.

Pollution Control

The proposed unit does not produce any effluent. However, the scraps of leather and other materials are to be collected and disposed-off at appropriate place or are burnt at an isolated place.

Energy Conservation

All machines are power driven and are run individually, whenever required.

Financial Aspects

A. Fixed Capital

(i) Land and Building Amount
(In Rs.)
(i) Land 3000 sq. ft. @ Rs. 500 per sq. ft including registration

1500000

(ii) Total built-up area 2000 sq. ft. @ Rs 1000 per sq ft

2000000

Water System (including Bore Well + over head tank etc)

100000

Total civil cost= cost of land + building

3600000

(ii) Machinery and Equipments

Sl. No. Description Imp./Ind. Qty. Rate (Rs.) Value (Rs.)
1. Strap cutting machine Straight (12 knives) Ind. 1 70,000

70000

2. Pneumatic stamping machine-stamping wheel (0-9 nos.) (A-Z) Ind. 1 95,000

95000

3. Upper Skiving machine Ind. 1 55,000

55000

4. Flat bed single needle sewing machine Ind. 3 25,000

75000

5. Heavy duty flat bed single needle sewing machine Ind. 1 40,000

40000

6. Cylinder bed sewing Single Ind. 2 90,000

180000

7. Combined finishing machine Ind. 1 85,000

85000

8. Rivetting machine Ind. 1 10,000

10000

9. Taxes,Electrification and erection of machine @ 40% on machine cost      

244000

 
Total

854000

(iii) Tools and Equipments and Other Fixed Assets

Sl. No. Description Imp. Ind. Qty. Rate (Rs.) Value (Rs.)
1. Leather goods makers tool kit Ind. 3 sets 5000

15000

2. Machine maintenance and electricians tool kit Ind. 1 set L.S.

5000

3. Testing equipments-thickness gauge, measuring scales etc. Ind. - L.S.

5000

4. Workshop working tables, racks etc. Ind. - L.S.

80000

5. Office furniture and equipments Ind. - L.S.

100000

6. Misc. equipments Ind. - L.S.

10000

 
Total

215000

 
Total [ii +iii]

1069000


(iv) Pre-operative Expenses (Rs.)
1. Preparation of project report and consultancy 40000
2. Administrative expenses 10000
3. Travelling, Market development and tie-up 20,000
4. Other formalities and expenses prior to production 10,000
 
Total

80000

 
Total Fixed Capital [i+ii+iii+iv]

4749000

B. Working Capital (per month)

(i) Staff and Labour (per month)

Sl. No. Designation No. Salary (Rs.) Total (Rs.)
1. Manager 1 20000

20000

2. Supervisor cum Designer 10 10000

100000

3. Skilled Worker 10 7000

70000

4. Semi-skilled workers 6 6000

36000

5. Unskilled worker 4 4000

16000

6. Electrician and mechanic 1 5000

5000

7. Accountant cum Cashier 1 6000

6000

8. Store keeper cum assistant 1 5000

5000

9. Attendant 1 3000

3000

 
Total

261000

  Add perquisites @ 22% on Salary

57420

 
Total

318420

(ii) Raw Material Including Packaging Materials Per Piece of Bag (per month)

Sl. No. Description Quantity Rate (Rs.)
Total (Rs.)
        Bag SP Bag MP
1. Heavy cow or buffalo Chrome tanned Bag Leather (2.0 mm) 8.5 Sq. ft. 70

595

-
2. Cow nappa/softee leather (1.4 mm) 9.0 Sq. ft. 80 -

720

3. Linings and reinforcements LS   20 70
4. Magnetic press buttons LS   - 50
5. Zips, Threads, adhesive, Finishing and other misc. materials LS   25 38
6. Packaging materials LS   9 14
 
Total

649

892

  Total materials requirement (per month) (456 x 750 + 622 x 500)

1865500

(iii) Utilities (per month)

Sl. No. Description Amount (Rs.)
1. Electricity bill LS

10000

 
Total

10000

(iv) Other Contingent Expenses (per month)

Sl. No. Description Amount (Rs.)
2. Repair and maintenance 10000
3. Other consumable 10000
4. Insurance 2000
5. Telephone, fax and other postal expenses 6000
6. Stationery and printing 5000
7. Other misc. expenditure 10000
 
Total

43000

(v) Total Recurring Expenses (per month)

Sl. No. Description Amount (Rs.)
1. Staff and Labour

318420

2. Raw Materials

1865500

3. Utilities

10000

4. Other contingent expenditure

43000

 
Total

2236920


(vi) Total Working Capital Requirement (Rs.)
i. Raw material stock-one month

1865500

ii. Stock in process-2 days

124367

iii. Finished goods stock-Half month

932750

iv. One month expenses:  
  a. Salary and wages

318420

  b. Utilities

10000

  c. Other Contingent expenses

43000

 
Total

3294037


(vii) Total Working Capital Requirement (Rs.)
v. Receivables (One month credit sale)

2700000

 
Total

5994037

C. Total Capital Investment

Sl. No. Description Amount (Rs.)
1. Fixed Capital

4749000

2. Working capital

5994037

 
Total

10743037

Financial Analysis

(1) Cost of Production (per year)

Sl. No. Description Amount (Rs.)
i) Total recurring cost

26843040

ii) Depriciation on Building 5 %

180000

iii) Depreciation on machinery and equipments @ 10%

85400

iv) Depreciation on tools and equipments @ 25%

28750

v) Depreciation on Furniture and Fixture @ 20%

22000

vi) Interest on Total Capital Investment @ 12%

1289164

 
Total

28448354

(2) Turnover (per year)

Sl. No. Items Quantity/pieces Rate (Rs.) Value (Rs.)
1. Leather travelling bag-Single pocket 18000 1000

18000000

2. Leather travelling bag-Multi pockets 12000 1200

14400000

 
Total

32400000


(3) Net Profit (Before Taxation) (per year)
Turnover - Cost of Production
32400000 - 28448354
= 3951646

(4) Net Profit Ratio    
    Net Profit per year x 100
  = ———————————
    Turnover per year
     
    3951646 x 100
  = ————————
   

32400000

     
  =

12.2

     
(5) Rate of Return on Total Investment
    Net Profit Per year x 100
  = ———————————
    Total Investment
     
    3951646 x 100
  = ————————
   

10743037

     
  =

36.78%

(6) Break-even Point
Fixed cost

Sl. No. Description Amount (Rs.)
a) Depreciation on Building @ 5 %

180000

b) Total depreciation on plant machinery tools fixtures office equipments

136150

c) Interest on capital investment

1289164

d) Insurance

24000

e) 40% of Salary and Wages

1528416

f) 40% of other contingent expenditure and utilities

51000

 
Total

3208730


B.E.P.    
    Fixed cost x 100
  = —————————
    Fixed cost + Net Profit
     
    3208730 x 100
  = ——————————
    3208730 +3951646
     
  = 44.81%

Addresses of Machinery and Equipment Suppliers

1. NSIC Technical Service Centre
Sector B-24, Guindy Indl. Estate,
Ekkaduthangal,
Chennai-32.

2. M/s. Atlanta Trading (P) Ltd.
Atur House,
Worli Naka,
Mumbai-18.

3. M/s. Twin Star Engineering
No. 98, Pammal Main Road,
Pammal,
Chennai-75.

4. M/s. Raj Machine Home
Opp. New Jyoti Building,
35/44, Karabala Road,
Agra-5.

Raw Material Suppliers

1. M/s. Alpha Global
445/1,6th Cross, 7th Block,
Jayanagar KPM Road,
Bangalore-560 082.

2. M/s. Amjad Finished Leather Co.
54, Maddox Street, Choolai,
Chennai-112.

3. M/s. Arkay Leathers
No. 3, Third Floor, Crown Court,
34, Chathedral Road,
Chennai-86.

4. M/s. Mow Chung Tannery Pvt. Ltd.
47, South Tangra Road,
Kolkata-46.

5. M/s. Pidilite Industries Ltd.
J.B. Marg, Nariman Point,
Mumbai
(for adhesive)

6. M/s. APL Poly Fab Pvt. Ltd.
48 C, Matheswar Tala Road,
Kolkata-46
(for lining)

7. M/s. Coats India Ltd.
144, M.G. Marg,
Bangalore-1
(for stitching thread)

8. M/s. Asia International
1523, Qasimjan Street,
Lal Kuan, New Delhi
(for fasteners)

9. M/s. Bharani Agencies
No. 126, Thambu Chetty Street,
III Floor, Chennai-1
(for fasteners)

10. M/s. Hyde Park India Pvt. Ltd.
C-21, Sector-7, Noida,
Ghaziabad Distt., U.P.
( for fasteners)

Contact for more information:

Information Manager
TIMEIS Project
E-mail: timeis@ficci.com

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