Own-brand door and window fittings from Narela workshops

This business buys hinges, tower bolts, handles, brackets and similar metal fittings from small pressing and fabrication workshops. It polishes and checks them, sets them with matching screws, and packs them under its own name. Start with a few items every hardware shop sells.

Light engineering goods are North Delhi's One District One Product. The Narela Industrial Area is one of Delhi's main factory estates, with many small metal units in and around it. Most make parts on job work (to another firm's order and design) for thin margins, while the name on the final product, and most of its price, go to someone else. A packing unit close by can buy from several workshops and sell a finished, labelled product.

You need a small shed with a buffing machine and packing table, GST and Udyam registration, and registration as a packer with the Legal Metrology department (which checks labels and weights on packed goods). Check whether any item needs a BIS quality mark. Test every batch for rust and rough finish; one bad batch can ruin a new name. The hard part is winning shelf space against well-known brands and cheap imports, and hardware dealers expect credit.

Sell through Delhi's wholesale hardware dealers who supply shops across North India, to carpenters and building contractors, and online.