§1What this business is

Each set has a male and a female part that click together. They are made from brass strip on automatic presses, loaded with spring wire and nickel-plated, or made from polished stainless steel. Readymade garment and hosiery makers buy them. The KVIC profile follows IS 4741 and notes that the machines are mostly imported while the dies are made locally.

Capacity: Output worth ₹28.00 L a year at full capacity (cost of production); quantity not printed.

§2Is it right for you?

Who it is for

Someone with press-tool experience near a garment-making cluster.

Who it is not for

Someone not ready to manage plating effluent.

Advantages

  • Steady demand from readymade garments and hosiery
  • Small, light product — cheap to store and send
  • Now used in men's wear too, so demand is widening (profile)
  • Dies can be made locally

Drawbacks

  • High wage bill — ₹10.08 L a year
  • Nickel plating creates effluent that must be treated
  • Machines are mostly imported
  • Low net surplus for the investment

Skills you need

  • Press tools and die setting
  • Electroplating
  • Quality checks on snap grip
  • Selling to garment makers

Why difficulty 3/5: Press work is learnable, but plating effluent and imported machines add effort.

§3Market

Who buys

  • Readymade garment makers
  • Hosiery units
  • Tailoring trims wholesalers

How it sells

  • Direct supply to garment factories
  • Garment accessory (trims) dealers

Good to know

  • Projected sales at full capacity: ₹32.00 lakh a year (profile).

§4Raw material & machinery

ItemQtyCost
Equipment set: eccentric press, automatic spring insert machine, dies, centrifugal drier, tumbling barrels, plating barrels, plastic baskets for pickling1 set₹9,00,000

From: KVIC Project Profile — Snap Fasteners (PMEGP)

  • Brass strip (or polished stainless steel strip)raw material ₹13.20 L a year at full capacity (profile)
  • Spring wireloaded into each part
  • Nickel anodesfor nickel plating
  • Labels and packing material₹6,000 a year (profile)

From: KVIC Project Profile — Snap Fasteners (PMEGP)

§5Licences & registration

  1. Udyam registration
  2. GST registration
  3. State Pollution Control Board consent — electroplating is a polluting process
  4. Trade licence from the local body

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§6Schemes & subsidies

PMEGP (KVIC model profile), MUDRA up to ₹20 lakh, CGTMSE; Stand-Up India for SC/ST or women founders.

§7Money

How the investment is worked out: KVIC profile: equipment ₹9.00 L (eccentric press, automatic spring insert machine, dies, centrifugal drier, tumbling barrels, plating barrels, plastic pickling baskets) + working capital ₹4.60 L = ₹13.60 L; land own.

Working capital: Working capital ₹4.60 L; raw material ₹13.20 L and wages ₹10.08 L a year at full capacity.

Year not printed on the KVIC profile — check current machinery prices.

How to prepare a loan file

§8Export potential

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

9606Buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs, and their parts

Export council / board: DGFT (IEC)

  • Get an Import Export Code (IEC) from DGFT before exporting.

§9Risks — where people fail

  • Brass and nickel price swings
  • Effluent compliance
  • Cheap imported fasteners
  • Losing orders if snaps fail

§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 snap fastener (press button) making 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 registration, GST registration), 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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Associations, clusters and training institutes — the directory is being built. Connect

§12Watch

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Sources

  1. KVIC Project Profile — Snap Fasteners (PMEGP)

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