§1What this business is

You press cement, stone aggregate and sand in a machine to make hollow and solid concrete blocks; paver and interlocking tiles are made on the same line. Buyers are builders, contractors, people building homes and government construction. The source report covers hollow/solid blocks — pavers need separate moulds, and the report does not cost them separately.

§2Is it right for you?

Who it is for

Someone with open land near a highway or town and a network of builders and contractors.

Who it is not for

Someone without space, or who wants to work from a small plot in the middle of a city.

Advantages

  • Construction never stops — demand all year
  • Raw material (aggregate, sand, fly ash) is available locally
  • Cheaper and faster to lay than red bricks
  • Government and housing-society orders for pavers and kerb stones

Drawbacks

  • Heavy product — transport eats the margin, hard to sell beyond 30–50 km
  • Construction slows in the rains and sales drop
  • Needs an open yard and water for curing
  • Poor quality ruins your name at once

Skills you need

  • Understanding of mix design and curing
  • Machine operation
  • Dealing with builders and contractors
  • Transport planning

Why difficulty 2/5: The process is easy, but you must manage space, transport and the rainy-season cycle.

§3Market

Who buys

  • People building houses and commercial buildings (load-bearing and non-load-bearing walls)
  • Builders and contractors, especially in hilly and high-rainfall states where clay bricks must come from far away

How it sells

  • Direct supply to building sites
  • Building-material dealers
  • Contractors

Good to know

  • Concrete blocks are steadily replacing red clay bricks because of their strength, accurate size and insulation.
  • Block masonry saves cement, steel, time and labour compared with burnt-brick masonry.
  • Blocks are heavy, so most sales happen within a short trucking distance.

§4Raw material & machinery

  • Cementbinder for the concrete mix
  • Stone chips / stone metalthe report says it is abundantly available in every state
  • Sand and gritavailable locally

From: UP MSME 1-Connect (Govt of UP, RAMP) – Project Report: Hollow & Cement Concrete Blocks (2024)

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§5Licences & registration

  1. Udyam
  2. GST
  3. UPPCB Consent to Establish/Operate (check the category)
  4. BIS IS 2185 (concrete masonry units) / IS 15658 (paver blocks) — for government orders
  5. Buy raw material that comes with mining/royalty paperwork

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§6Schemes & subsidies

Project ~₹25 L: within the PMEGP manufacturing limit (₹50 L); the term-loan part under MUDRA Tarun/Tarun Plus (up to ₹20 L); collateral-free through CGTMSE. Stand-Up India (₹10 L–₹1 Cr) for SC/ST/women.

§7Money

How the investment is worked out: Min = gross fixed assets ₹19.06 L. Max = total funds at start: own capital ₹2.50 L + term loan ₹17.43 L + cash credit ₹5.05 L (summed from the report's cash-flow statement; report gives no single 'project cost' line).

Working capital: Cash credit ₹5.05 L — this pays for cement stock and credit given to builders.

Report 2024. Paver moulds are not costed.

How to prepare a loan file

§8Export potential

Confirm the HS code in the DGFT ITC(HS) lookup before you export

6810.11Building blocks and bricks of cement, concrete or artificial stone6810.19Other tiles, flagstones and similar articles of cement or concrete (paver blocks)

Export council / board: CAPEXIL

  • Exports are rare because blocks are heavy and cheap; the market is local.
  • Confirm the 8-digit ITC(HS) line with DGFT or your customs broker.

§9Risks — where people fail

  • Rising cement prices
  • Monsoon slowdown
  • Credit sales
  • Quality/strength failure

§1030 / 60 / 90-day plan

A general plan that applies to any business. A plan for this business will be added after research.

  1. Days 1–30: Visit a working cement concrete block / paver unit unit, ask 10 buyers about price and quantity, and get quotations from 3 suppliers.
  2. Days 31–60: Udyam and the licences you need (Udyam, GST), a project report (DPR), and the scheme or loan file.
  3. Days 61–90: Space and machines, trial production, and first deliveries to 10 customers.

§11Who to connect with

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§12Watch

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Sources

  1. UP MSME 1-Connect (Govt of UP, RAMP) – Project Report: Hollow & Cement Concrete Blocks (Concrete Bricks) (2024)

Data review: 6 October 2026. Spotted a mistake? Report it. For information only — not legal or financial advice.