Overview

The industrial units in the State can be broadly classified in the following categories:

a)    Resource-based industrial units, like tea processing, fruit processing, milk processing, cashew nut processing, spice processing, jute bag manufacturing, saw mills, bamboo processing (handicrafts, mechanised bamboo-stick units and agarbatti-making units), silk reeling/ weaving, rubber-based units (rubber thread, rubber compound, tread rubber, rubber band, etc), brick kilns , coir units, modern rice mills, packaged drinking water etc.

b)    Service Sector units, like hotels, printing presses, automobile repair/ servicing/ tyre re-treading, nursing homes/ diagnostic centres, cold storage etc.

c)    Units catering to Govt. requirement, like PVC pipes, spun pipes, ACSR conductors, cables, PCC poles, steel tubular poles, TMT bars/rods/flats, GCI Sheets,  alum,  etc.

d)    Other units, like roller flour mills, bakeries/ biscuit manufacturing units, handlooms, steel fabrication, distillery, tobacco units, LPG bottling, PU foam, water tanks, etc.
 

The major flagship Industrial area is the Industrial Growth Centre complex at Bodhjungnagar and R.K. Nagar at Khayerpur in West Tripura District. This also includes food Park, Rubber Park, Export Promotion Industrial Park and a Bamboo park. Also a Tool Room and Training centre is being established in that area. Other industrial sites like Industrial Estate, IIDC's etc are located in different parts of the state.

The details of 20 industrial estates being managed by TIDC are as follows: