Tata Consumer Products opens tea packaging plant in odisha

Tata Consumer Products (TCP) has recently inaugurated its new tea-packaging plant located in Gopalpur Industrial Park of Tata Steel Special Economic Zone (TSSEZ), post successful trial production. The Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the new plant. The Gopalpur plant will be operated by Amalgamated Plantations Private Limited (APPL), an associate company of Tata Consumer Products Gopalpur plant is the first TCP plant to pack both leaf & dust tea, providing higher flexibility to the operations network. The project will generate direct and indirect employment for 250 people in the first year and 700 people by 202425. The state-of-the-art packing machinery will be equipped with IOT capabilities for enhanced operational efficiency. The total value of the project is Rs 100 crore with investment in infrastructure by TSSEZ and machinery investment by TCP. It is the largest tea packing plant for TCP, producing around 60 million kg per annum by 2024-25.