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Book Health and Safety in Small Industry

Download or read book Health and Safety in Small Industry written by Umdmj and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1989-03-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This easy-to-use new manual guides managers and specialists of small and medium size companies who must comply with State/Federal regulations-to protect both companies and their employees. This practical guide examines new areas of hazardous waste handling and toxic catastrophe prevention, provides responsibilities of federal and state agencies and information sources, and outlines medical, safety, worker education, and industrial hygiene programs-and the resources available to evaluate and correct workplace hazards.

Book Small  Gritty  and Green

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Tumber
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2013-09-13
  • ISBN : 0262525313
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Small Gritty and Green written by Catherine Tumber and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future. America's once-vibrant small-to-midsize cities—Syracuse, Worcester, Akron, Flint, Rockford, and others—increasingly resemble urban wastelands. Gutted by deindustrialization, outsourcing, and middle-class flight, disproportionately devastated by metro freeway systems that laid waste to the urban fabric and displaced the working poor, small industrial cities seem to be part of America's past, not its future. And yet, Catherine Tumber argues in this provocative book, America's gritty Rust Belt cities could play a central role in a greener, low-carbon, relocalized future. As we wean ourselves from fossil fuels and realize the environmental costs of suburban sprawl, we will see that small cities offer many assets for sustainable living not shared by their big city or small town counterparts, including population density and nearby, fertile farmland available for new environmentally friendly uses. Tumber traveled to twenty-five cities in the Northeast and Midwest—from Buffalo to Peoria to Detroit to Rochester—interviewing planners, city officials, and activists, and weaving their stories into this exploration of small-scale urbanism. Smaller cities can be a critical part of a sustainable future and a productive green economy. Small, Gritty, and Green will help us develop the moral and political imagination we need to realize this.

Book Financing Small Scale Industry

Download or read book Financing Small Scale Industry written by G.K. Patra and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The small scale industrial sector has emerged as a vibrant and dynamic sector of the Indian economy since independence. With the twin objectives of employment generation and capital expansion, the small-scale sector was highly emphasized consistently in all the successive industrial policy resolutions. Considering the immense potentialities of the Small Scale Sector in the overall backdrop of Indian economy a natural level seminar was organised with the support of UGC. Thought provoking and highly illuminating papers were presented embracing a wide spectrum of issues revolving round the small-scale sector in the country. Those are clubbed together to put forth the viewpoints for reference to thinkers, policy makers, planners and academicians.

Book Profitable Small  Cottage   Home Industries

Download or read book Profitable Small Cottage Home Industries written by NIIR Board and published by ASIA PACIFIC BUSINESS PRESS Inc.. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The small scale sector is assuming greater importance every day. Hundreds of thousands of people start their own businesses at home every year, and untold more dream about the possibility of becoming their own bosses. Starting a business at home is the best when you do not have enough funds. While entrepreneurship has its many potential rewards, it also carries unique challenges. Making a choice of the right project is a difficult decision for an entrepreneur and is an imperative decision. In fact, before starting a business also one has to be thorough with the requirements of current line of industry. Above all taking advantage of various schemes provided by government and other financial institutions. For the reason that rest of the challenges for setting up, a business is based on the type of the product and fund to invest. Entrepreneurship helps in the development of nation. A successful entrepreneur not only creates employment for himself but for hundreds. Deciding on a right project can lead you to the road to success. An entrepreneur requires a continuous flow of funds not only for setting up of his/ her business, but also for successful operation as well as regular up gradation/ modernization of the industrial unit. To meet this requirement, the Government (both at the Central and State level) has been undertaking several steps like setting up of banks and financial institutions; formulating various policies and schemes, etc. All such measures are specifically focused towards the promotion and development of small and medium enterprises. In both developed and developing countries, the Government is turning to small and medium scale industries and entrepreneurs, as a means of economic development and a veritable means of solving problems. It is a seedbed of innovations, inventions and employment. Some of the major fundamentals of the book are steps in setting up an SSI, preparation of a project report, constitution of the firm, need for planning, registration/licences for SSI, resourcing, non financial, national level, state level, market survey, demand supply gap, major buying countries, plant economics, plastic granules from scraps/waste, process of manufacture to produce colourless transparent plastic granules from waste, P.V.C. hand gloves, plant & machinery suppliers, H.D.P.E. tarpaulins, fibre reinforced plastics, polyester resin, plastic cooler body, disposable plastic cups and glass etc., bleaching, dyeing & finishing of textiles, etc. The book contains the aspects to plan any business strategy step by step. The book explains about business planning, effective marketing matters, facing the competition, resourcing, economics of plants and more aspects that will help start and maintain a new business. The identification of a suitable project within the investment limit of a new entrepreneur is very difficult. The present book strives to meet this specific entrepreneurial need. The book contains processes formulae, brief profiles of various projects which can be started in small investment without much technical knowledge at small place. This is very resourceful publication for new entrepreneurs, professionals, libraries etc.

Book Credit and Capital Requirements of Small Industry

Download or read book Credit and Capital Requirements of Small Industry written by United States. Business Advisory Council and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIES

Download or read book ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIES written by Dr. Laxman Channaveerappa Mulgund and published by Lulu Publication. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vibrancy of an economy depends on the constant flow of entrepreneurs who can take up challenges in business and industry. An entrepreneur is one of the important segments of economic growth. Schumpeter observes that economic development consists of employing resources in a different way in doing a new combination of means of production. He contends that economic growth depends on the rate of applied technical progress i.e. innovation rate of applied technical progress in the economic field which in turn depends on supply of entrepreneurs in society. Thus entrepreneur becomes the agent of change in society[1]. Entrepreneur’s motivations & aspirations are conducive to development. Entrepreneurial competence makes all the difference in the rate of economic growth. A broad based entrepreneurial class in India is a felt need and such an entrepreneurial class would speed up the process of activating the factors of production leading to a higher rate of economic growth dispersal of economic activities, development of backward & rural tribal areas, creation of employment opportunities, improvement in the standard of living of the weaker sections of the society and involvement of all sections of the society in the process of growth[2]. An entrepreneur plays a critical role in the process of socioeconomic change by envisaging new opportunities new techniques, new products & by coordinating all other activities.

Book Profitable Advertising for Small Industrial Goods Producers

Download or read book Profitable Advertising for Small Industrial Goods Producers written by Raymond P. Wiggers and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Profitable Small Scale Industries

Download or read book Profitable Small Scale Industries written by NPCS Board of Consultants & Engineers and published by NIIR PROJECT CONSULTANCY SERVICES. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The small scale sector is assuming greater importance every day. Starting a small scale venture is a reality that has created wide open opportunity and success for those who decided to take the plunge just as it can for you. Setting up a small scale industry is also the easiest and least expensive way to become an entrepreneur. Hundreds of thousands of people start their own businesses every year, and untold more dream about the possibility of becoming their own bosses. While entrepreneurship has its many potential rewards, it also carries unique challenges. To start a business of your own you need to understand the environment to set up an enterprise of you own. To run a successful business, you need to learn all about your existing and potential customers, your competitors and the economic conditions of your market place. An entrepreneur requires a continuous flow of funds not only for setting up of his/ her business, but also for successful operation as well as regular up gradation/ modernization of the industrial unit. To meet this requirement, the Government (both at the Central and State level) has been undertaking several steps like setting up of banks and financial institutions; formulating various policies and schemes, etc. The Government has announced series of steps to promote industrial development by way of rationalization of the policies to encourage the new entrepreneurs as well as existing units. Any unit or new entrepreneur, establishing or implementing the project needs a complete set of plan and finance for making it successful. You do not need to be a genius to run a successful business, but you do need some help. And that is exactly what this book is, a guide into the stimulating world of business ownership and management. The major contents of the book are measuring tapes (steel), carbon potentiometers, auto pistons, wafer biscuits (new), automatic curtain opener, tumbler locks, cement concrete tiles and paving blocks, woven labels, electro cardiogram paper (E.C.G. paper), tomato products, leather chappals, distribution board, v. belts and fan belts, baby bloomer suits, electronic quartz analog clocks, power pack/battery eliminators, table fan, potato/banana wafers, laminated safety glass, HRC fuse links, 1000 VAC, directory section etc. The present book is a chain of guidelines, which will help you in selection of an appropriate industry in low investment. The project covered in this book can be started with in twenty lakhs, without having much technical knowledge. This will be very helpful to those who want to become an entrepreneur.

Book Profitable Small Scale Industries  Money making Business Ideas for Startup  when you don   t know what industry to start  2nd Revised Edition

Download or read book Profitable Small Scale Industries Money making Business Ideas for Startup when you don t know what industry to start 2nd Revised Edition written by NPCS Board of Consultants & Engineers and published by NIIR PROJECT CONSULTANCY SERVICES. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) have been playing an important role in the overall economic development of a country like India, where millions of people are unemployed or underemployed. The economic development of any country primarily depends upon the establishment of industries. MSME sector comprises 95 per cent of the total industrial units in the country. The hunt for funding has been the bane of an entrepreneur’s existence from times of yore. Many abandon their dream to build, create, and innovate in the face of this difficult struggle without realising that a good business idea will eventually pool in the bounty-full once it has secured a place in the market. Your idea will bring you your company, your company will bring you the people, and the people will bring you the market. A good idea has no monetary value, just a whole lot of bursting potential. Today, the World's most successful entrepreneurs like Dhiru Bhai Ambani and Karsanbhai Patel – Man behind NIRMA may hold the possibility of building pyramids out of notes, but none of them started at the top of the ladder. Facebook was created out of a Harvard dorm room at minimal cost and Microsoft was formed two years after Gates decided to drop out of college. For an entrepreneur starting out, it makes good business sense to avoid ideas that require high capital investment in equipment, land, etc. Venturing into the manufacturing business requires to divide time and effort between making business plan, creating the product, and selling. It is best to venture into product areas that requires small to medium investment, which can be returned within few years. If one want to start off on his own, this book provides some manufacturing business ideas with small and medium investment. The major contents of the book are India Government Loan Schemes for Small Scale Businesses, Government Support for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in India, Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana, Packaging and Labeling, Products Packaging, Marketing, Onion Dehydration, Garlic Dehydration, Onion Pickle, Onion Chutney, Garlic Oil, Onion Powder, Ginger Oil, Ginger Powder, Ginger Paste, Tomato Pulp, Tomato Paste, Tomato Ketchup, Tomato Powder, Disposable Blood Bags, Disposable Masks, Disposable Surgical Catheters, Disposable Plastic Syringes, Plastic Cups, Disposable Banana Leaf Plate, Facial Tissue & Baby Wet Wipes, Urea Formaldehyde Resin Adhesive, Toothpaste Production, Gypsum Board, Surgical Absorbent Cotton, Glass Fibre, Complex Fertilizers, Activated Carbon from Wood, Biscuits, Candy, Chocolates, Milk Powder, Instant Noodles, Khakhra, Soft Drinks, Spices and Sample Plant Layouts. If you ever had an idea that you want to turn into a profitable business endeavor, this book will be a mile stone for you. Remember Dhirubhai Ambani said, “Ideas are no one’s monopoly Think big, think fast, think ahead.” TAGS Profitable Small Scale Industries, Money Making Business Ideas, Small Scale Manufacturing Business Ideas, Good Small Business Ideas with Low Investment, Business Ideas for Small Scale Industry, Small Scale Industries Projects, Small Scale Manufacturing Business Ideas, New Manufacturing Business Ideas with Medium Investment, Most Profitable Manufacturing Business to Start, What is the Most Profitable Small Scale Business in India? Startup Projects for Entrepreneurs, Best and Profitable Small Scale Industry in India, Highly Profitable Small and Medium Scale Projects for Startup, Low Investment Manufacturing Business Ideas, Start Your Own Business, Most Profitable Small Businesses, Profitable Industries to Start a Business, Startup Business Ideas, How to Start a Profitable Business, Business Ideas with Low Investment and High Profit, Investment Business Opportunities in India, Best Profitable Manufacturing & Processing Business Ideas, Projects on Small Scale Industries, Small Business Ideas & Opportunities, Small and Medium Business Ideas with Low Investment and High Profit, Small Businesses You Can Start on Your Own, How to Start Your Own Small Business, SME Projects, Small and Medium Enterprise Ideas, Low Cost Business Ideas, How to Start a Successful Small Business, Highly Profitable Low-Cost Business Ideas and Opportunities, Money Making Ideas, Business Ideas to Make Money, Entrepreneur Ideas for Making Money, Business Opportunities, Business Opportunities to Make Money, Money making Business Ideas for Startup

Book Parcel and Small Package Delivery Industry

Download or read book Parcel and Small Package Delivery Industry written by William T. Dennis and published by William Dennis. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about an industry that provides fast, reliable, on-demand, global door-to-door movement of goods. Author gives the information a practical orientation that will be useful to college business students and transportation professionals. Novice interested in the parcel delivery industry will find the book a valuable source of information. Section I, provides a brief history of the parcel delivery industry, the dominant carriers, and issues critical to the effective purchase and use of their services. Key topics covered in Section II are, basic packaging guidelines, packaging materials, packaging testing, and implementing a vendor compliance program. Section III outlines basic guidelines managers can use to lower shipping costs and increase their company's competitiveness. Key topics discussed are, selecting a carrier, audit and payment firms, accessorial charges, size and weight restrictions, loss and damage claims, and contracting. Material presented in Section IV, Appendices and Section V, Glossary Shipping Terms is supplemental information.

Book Profitable Cottage and Tiny Industries

Download or read book Profitable Cottage and Tiny Industries written by NPCS Board of Consultants & Engineers and published by NIIR PROJECT CONSULTANCY SERVICES. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of thousands of people start their own businesses every year, and untold more dream about the possibility of becoming their own bosses. While entrepreneurship has its many potential rewards, it also carries unique challenges. Starting a business involves planning, making key financial decisions and completing a series of legal activities. To run a successful business, you need to learn all about your existing and potential customers, your competitors and the economic conditions of your market place. The Government has announced series of steps to promote industrial development by way of rationalization of the policies to encourage the new entrepreneurs as well as existing units. In both developed and developing countries, the Government is turning to small and medium scale industries and entrepreneurs, as a means of economic development and a veritable means of solving problems. It is a seedbed of innovations, inventions and employment. You do not need to be a genius to run a successful small business, but you do need some help. And that is exactly what this book is, a guide into the stimulating world of small business ownership and management. Entrepreneurship helps in the development of nation. A successful entrepreneur not only creates employment for himself but for hundreds. Deciding on a right project can lead you to the road to success. The major contents of the book are electronic burglar alarm system for automobiles, chokes for sodium/mercury vapour lamps, heat treatment servicing unit, squashes and syrups, electronic, industrial timers, desk top publishing centre, castings for auto locks, ball pen ink, cashew nut shell liquid, automatic wheel alignment & wheel balancing workshop, neck ties, electric toaster, plaster of paris, transistor radio sets (am/fm), soya products, shuttle cocks for badminton, neon sign boards etc. The industries covered in this book can be started with the investment of below ten lacs with the help of financial assistance provided by Banks, Financial Institutions, KVIC etc. This book will give you the better way to select an appropriate industry within your limit. The book covers project profiles of various industries, among which you can select one. The book is a must read for any person who wants to make their life better by starting their own industry working for themselves. 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Book Transfer  Adoption and Diffusion of Technology for Small and Cottage Industries

Download or read book Transfer Adoption and Diffusion of Technology for Small and Cottage Industries written by Rizwanul Islam and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1992 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles; annex presents the Proceedings of the International Seminar on Transfer of Technology for SCIs Amongst Developing Countries, held at New Delhi in May 1990.

Book Industry 4 0 in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises  SMEs

Download or read book Industry 4 0 in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises SMEs written by Ketan Kotecha and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-03-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the broader areas of Industry 4.0 as it applies to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), this book offers a smooth adoption of techniques and technologies and presents advances, challenges, and opportunities for implementation. It will also enhance the role of academia by training new engineers on Industry 4.0 and digital transformation. Industry 4.0 in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs): Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions presents concepts of predictive maintenance, digital factory, digital twin, additive manufacturing, and machining for sustainable development. It discusses the challenges faced by adopting Industry 4.0 including new security and privacy measures in the whole smart manufacturing setup while also explaining the impact of Industry 4.0 on Lean production systems. Implementation recommendations in the form of case studies, research studies, and the role academia can play are also provided. Practitioners, research scholars, academicians, and those studying or working in the Industry 4.0 sector will find this book of interest.

Book Rural Small Scale Industry in the People s Republic of China

Download or read book Rural Small Scale Industry in the People s Republic of China written by Dwight Perkins and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.

Book Endogenous Regional Development  Cottage Industries in Tasmanian Agriculture  PhD Thesis

Download or read book Endogenous Regional Development Cottage Industries in Tasmanian Agriculture PhD Thesis written by Anna Gralton and published by Anna Gralton. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This PhD study explores a ‘culture industry’, that of the artisanal food industry in Tasmanian agriculture (https://eprints.utas.edu.au/8039/). Food production and consumption is a highly controversial, socio-political process, whereby diverse values and beliefs, levels of resources and interests struggle for survival. The resultant manifestation of this struggle – in the form of products, production methods and actions – stand testament to the diversity. This thesis demonstrates the politicised nature of food production by examining the paradox of enterprise expansion while retaining a number of identities/tags associated with small scale food businesses and their products (i.e. cottage industry, artisanality and quality food). The implications of these findings for the development of the artisanal food industry are also explored. Two phases of data collection were involved in exploring these issues. A first phase was a scoping study involving document analysis, semi-structured interviews with local knowledgeables and a range of cottage industries, and initial fieldwork. The second phase involved a case study analysis with three small-scale agricultural cottage enterprises (SACEs) and three that had expanded (ESACEs). The case studies primarily involved in-depth, semi-structured interviews. The research found that the cottage industry identity was meaningful as applied to the SACEs, but also that many of the defining characteristics of a cottage industry were also applicable to the ESACEs. Artisanality was found to be an appropriately assigned label in both the small-scale and expanded enterprises, with a set of specific characteristics, approaches and the principals’ role as ‘artisanal entrepreneur’ authenticating the ESACEs and their products as artisanal. It was found that the enterprises under study aligned with Ray’s (2003) notion of the cultural approach to Endogenous Regional Development (ERD) and particular place and space characteristics; whilst ‘the short food supply chain’, a ‘collective form of social action’, assisted in facilitating the preservation of these associated identities/tags. In examining the retention of food quality meanings upon expansion, the same set of characteristics and qualities that are potentially used and applicable to the SACEs in defining quality were also found to be relevant in the ESACEs. In examining the cottage industry, artisanal and quality identities, this research demonstrated that there are more similarities than differences between the SACEs and ESACEs, and that growth can occur without necessarily compromising values and actions; all of which enable identity preservation and value-adding potentialities. Moreover, the current use of the ‘short food supply chain’ holds significant promise for this industry as it assists in building relationships and trust between processors and consumers who share similar values and beliefs surrounding food production and consumption. In so doing, food products are heavily laden with eco-social information, which can assist in challenging unsustainable agrifood production and related practice.

Book The role of small industry in the process of economic growth

Download or read book The role of small industry in the process of economic growth written by Miyohei Shinohara and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "The role of small industry in the process of economic growth".