Stock Insight: Top of the Pack

Bilt, the largest paper company in India, has embarked on an aggressive growth plan to double its size by 2008.The company, which is among the top 100 paper manufacturers in the world, was incorporated in 1945 as Ballarpur Straw Board Mills, which was later changed to Ballarpur Industries in 1975. Bilt has split into two companies-- Bilt Paper and Bilt Chemicals. The company has five plants located at Ballarpur and Bhigwan in Maharashtra, Yamunanagar in Haryana, Jeypore in Orissa and Kamalapuram in Andhra Pradesh. It is in the process of adding a sixth plant by merging APR Packaging, which it acquired in 2003, with itself. The company makes coated wood free pap

This article was originally published on September 01, 2006.