Gujarat Guardian, a joint venture promoted by Guardian Industries Corporation of USA and Modi Group, has invested Rs.14 crore in a plant at Bharuch in Gujarat for manufacturing environment-friendly mirrors under its brand ‘Modiguard’.

The plant, built with the latest mirror manufacturing technology from Klopper, Germany, has a capacity of 3,500 tonnes of mirror per month. The plant was set up with internal accruals.

The company completely brought down the old plant, which had a capacity of 2,000 tonnes and built the new plant, according to Mr Alok Modi, joint managing director of Gujarat Guardian.

The Modiguard mirror is corrosion resistant with a longer life and is ideal for hot and humid environments like India. GMP (green mirror processing) coating is used in the new mirror to give stronger protection to the silver film and does away with the traditional copper coating. It is given a computerised controlled uniform silver spray to avoid fractures in the silver film and Palladium is used for better bonding of silver film and removing the likelihood of dark spots. Finally, two coats of lead-free imported paint are applied for better protection of silver film.

The new plant can manufacture mirrors of 3 mm to 8 mm thickness in large sizes upto 3.6 metres. It is located in the same premises as the company’s float glass plant. The Rs.400 crore plant has a capacity of 15,000 tonnes per month.