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Sivakasi history of Fireworks.
While fireworks can be traced to the Siddhar Bhogar from TN and the technology travelled all through India and parts of the world too, it finally came back to TN as an industry due to the pioneering efforts of a couple of Nadars from Sivakasi.
While fireworks can be traced to the Siddhar Bhogar from TN and the technology travelled all through India and parts of the world too, it finally came back to TN as an industry due to the pioneering efforts of a couple of Nadars from Sivakasi.
In the year 1922, Ayya Nadar and A.Shunmuga Nadar travelled to Calcutta and learnt the technology of making matches as well as flower pot crackers, called Bengal Lights. Armed with this knowhow and skill,
they returned to their hometown of Sivakasi and set up the first handmade safety match factories there, under the brand names Anil and Kakka, which grew on to become Ayyan Fireworks and Sri Kaliswari Fireworks respectively.
Sivakasi was ideal for this industry as this region is dry and arid for 10 months in a year, especially before the season of Deepavali. For, the air should be dry and not humid and sticky, inorder to be able to store, mix and pack the chemicals into cracker.
Fireworks in Sivakasi is therefore a geo-located industry because of the arid and dry conditions.
From then on, they diversified into print and other fireworks too and around them also grew the firecracker industry and many more brands in Sivakasi.
From then on, they diversified into print and other fireworks too and around them also grew the firecracker industry and many more brands in Sivakasi.
Making of fireworks has since been a thriving industry around Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu. Manufacture and export of fireworks and the field of pyrotechnics have become an important contributor to the economy of this region.
In recent times, with regulations
– safety and labour norms in the manufacture of firecrackers
– transport and storage norms in the trade of firecrackers,
– hazard and disturbance norms in the bursting of firecrackers as well as innovations such as
– safety and labour norms in the manufacture of firecrackers
– transport and storage norms in the trade of firecrackers,
– hazard and disturbance norms in the bursting of firecrackers as well as innovations such as
– Green Crackers by the CSIR, which do not contain banned checmicals such as Barium, Arsenic, Lithium or Lead and which release water vapour to prevent dust particles from rising and thus reduce particulate matter pollution by over 30% and
– new formulae to be invented which can act as insect repellants and disinfectants too, fireworks can be designed to be safe for human and animals as well as environment.
we now have every reason to make every Deepavali season “A SOUND FESTIVAL OF LIGHT"
we now have every reason to make every Deepavali season “A SOUND FESTIVAL OF LIGHT"
