MINI INDUSTRIAL ESTATES 63 unit increased its capacity from 50 cubic feet per day to 72 cubic feet and currently manufactures 1200 gross veneers per day. As and when there is a spurt in demand an additional half shift (four hours) is worked. The Khadi and Village Industries Commission has estimated that the demand would grow by 6 percent per annum. The paper mill manufactures 60 bags a minute and works to its full capacity. It sells the products in the districts ofPalghat, Malappuram and Trichur and feels that scope is good, although currently there is no plan to increase the existing capacity. The mini printing press, for which the main customer is the Malappu-r am panehayat, aLo considers the scope good. The pharmaceutical units have their own sales depots in the town and established stockists in Palghat district as well as in other adjacent districts. The knitwear unit went through serious teething problems for want of working capital. For the year 1979-80, the sales were expected to reach Rs 200,000. The unit produces 40 dozens of children's dress daily and the products have proved to be popular. The ceramic unit's prospects are good if it gets over the following problems: Find out, by trial and error method, the optimum feed for the grinding mill so that the grinding media do not grind against each other. Find the optimum revolutions per minute so that the settling tank yields maximum recovery of the desired material and desired quality. The quality of the product has to be analysed at regular intervals to mainiain the right RPM so as to obtain the maximum possible recovery with minimum impurities. Kilns have to be separated to be independent of each other so that one can be fired up to 900° Centigrade for low tension insulators and' the other upto 1800° Centigrade for high tension insulators. It would be necessary for the unit to use coal instead of fire" wood to consistently maintain temperature at the desired level and to economize on fuel comsumption. Without creating any additional capacity, this unit can diversify its activities by producting glazed bricks for building. Having used the best grade of clay for insulators, next grade for fire bricks followed by tablewares, the rejects can be profitably used for glazed bricks. Only one side of the brick is to be glazed. As the glazed bricks do away with the need for whitewashing, which is a recurring annual expenditure in the maintenance of