The story of
Khanna papers begins with our Founder-Director Brij
Mohan Khanna. Born on October 13, 1947, in the dawn
of India’s newly gained independence, he grew up with
ideals of service to the country and a fierce belief that
India could and must excel.
Bright and intelligent, he sought and got admission for
an M.B.B.S degree. However a re-look at his family finances
made him decide that he would put his fresh, young mind
to improving the family future.
Starting with a small sum of Rs.10,000/- culled from
the family’s savings Brij Mohan set up a small paper
plant in 1968 with the capacity of 200 Kg, and named it
" Khanna Small Scale Industry".
With his hard work and canny business sense, the plant flourished
and grew.
Never one to rest on his successes, in 1978 he started a
Duplex Board Plant with a capacity of 5
metric ton. In honour of his father, Shri Rattan Chand Khanna
he named it "Rattan Paper Mills". As this
second plant flourished, the time came to increase the capacity
and the product range. In1981, he put up another unit by
the name of "Satya Paper Mills" with a capacity
of 8 TPD of writing Paper. This was named after his mother
Shrimati Satyavati Khanna.
In small ways are the inner workings of the mind reflected
– Brij Mohan Khanna, remains a strong believer
in family values. The difference is that today, the family
comprises not just of his wife Renu Khanna and his
two sons Rahul and Saurabh, but encompasses the entire staff
and workers of Khanna Paper Mills. This perhaps is the
underlying reason for the success of Khanna Papers –
the loving guidance and far seeing vision of Brij Mohan Khanna,
who is a patriarch in the true sense.
In 1991 he set up another unit in the name of "R.
C. Paper Mills Pvt. Ltd." with a capacity
of 25 TPD.
In a short span of five years, in 1996, “Khanna Paper
Mills Pvt. Ltd.” was created by merging together R.C.
Paper Mills and Satya Paper Mills.
The company grew and in keeping with the changing ideologies
of the new century, Brij Mohan conceived the idea of making
quality paper from waste paper. Such thinking was typical
of the man who moves with the times and has always been
mindful of the critical need to preserve our natural resources,
and use viable alternatives that do not preclude cutting
down of trees.
As he puts it – “If the world must have
paper, and we have chosen to fulfill that need, then the
responsibility lies with us to always be on the lookout
for ecological alternatives to fulfill that need”.
Conceptualized in 2000, this unique project was completed
in 2002. This successful experiment with utilizing waste,
coalesced into our strong Ecological Policy, and
is one of the basic tenets in our business ideology.
The company has traversed a long distance from manufacturing
200 Kgs sun dry board per day in 1965 to 400 tons of paper
and 300 tons of board per day, today. We now have a manufacturing
capacity of 1.2 lac metric ton per annum.
Khanna Paper Mills Private Limited, is now an ISO 9001:2000
certified company, manufacturing quality paper and board
not only for domestic consumption but also exporting it
to the SAARC countries, and to Africa and the Middle East.
Our export Market continues to grow at a rapid rate. Our
newest product the “Flexible White Board” challenges
the domination of the existing behemoth.
We are today the third largest manufacturing unit housed
within one humongous single location premise.
The story of the latest entrant into the Top 5 league of
Paper Manufacturers has just begun.
