GKB Ophthalmics Share Price

Incorporated in December, 1981, GKB Opthalmics Limited was granted a licence as a 100% EOU in 1982. The Company set up a plant at Tivim, Goa, with financial assistance from the Economic Development Corporation of Goa, Daman and Diu Limited and The Maharashtra State Financial Corporation. Presently, the Company is engaged in manufacture and sale of unfinished ophthalmic lenses having the normal capacity of producing 25,000 pieces of lenses per day with installed capacity of manufacturing 35,000 lenses per day. The Company commercial its production in May 1983. It completed the expansion programme by expanding the capacity of single vision lenses to 33 lac pcs pa. It installed facilities for coating 1.72 lac pcs of lenses pa. The above project was completed at a new loacation Pilerne Industrial Estate, BardezGoa. The company shifted the single vision plant to the new premises in phases. In 199697, it increased the installed capacity of ophthamal lenses by 9,00,000 nos to 30,00,000 nos.The establishment of Companys fully owned subsidiary in Germany in 1998 was a turning point in creating a strong market base in Europe. The company floated a wholly owned subsidiary (WOS) at Bermen, Germany which acted as a stock point and had oroper liasion with the buyers in and around Europe. During the year 200708, the Company started the production of CR 39 lenses in its Unit 2. On October 05, 2018, GSV Ophthalmics Private Limited was incorporated as Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Company. GSV Ophthalmics Private Limited is another Subsidiary of the Company, which was incorporated to produce HiIndex Ophthalmic Lenses, however, the Project had become financially unviable and therefore the Company is in the discussion of coming up with an alternate expansion plan.