Description : Gujarat Guardian Limited is a joint venture company which has set up float glass plant in India in technical and financial collaboration with Guardian Industries Corp., USA - the world’s third largest glass manufacturing company having 22 Float Glass facilities located in North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Middle East, India and Far East. In addition to Float Glass, Guardian Industries Corp. also manufactures coated glass, mirrors, tempered glass, automotive glass, fiber glass and automotive plastics.

Gujarat Guardian Limited - a Rs. 450 Crore plant – went into commercial production in March 1993 and was the first Float Glass manufacturing company with the state-of-the-art technology to be set up in India at Village Kondh in Bharuch district of Gujarat. The company manufactures Float Glass, Silvered and Vacuum Coated Mirrors and Table Tops. The company’s Products are sold under the brand name “MODIGUARD” and enjoy a leadership position in the Indian Glass Market. The company exports its products to over 75 countries across the world and has won Export Award three years in a row.

The company, in a very short span of its operations, has become one of the largest and the most respected company in the Indian Glass Market and has carved a niche for itself as a proactive and performance-driven organisation. The team working has brought many laurels to the company. The company – to begin with – obtained ISO 9002:1994 Certification in 1996, which was later upgraded to ISO 9001:2000 Certification in 2003.

The company has been recognised for introducing innovative work practices and its shop floor work democracy. The company employees about 500 employees and has an absenteeism rate of less than 0.03% per annum. The safety streak of the company is manifested in its achieving the milestone of Four Million Loss Time accident Free Man-hours twice in last 10 years - a distinction that only a few other Guardian plants share. The company has a unique employee wellness programme “Health Guard”, which endeavors to improve the health and lifestyle of not only the employees but also of his family.

The company has a beautiful township near the plant with more than 100 houses. The township has 3 bed-room fully furnished duplex houses for its management staff. It has a recreational center with the well-equipped gymnasium, table tennis, lawn tennis, swimming pool, cricket and football ground. The township also has its own Cable TV and high speed cable internet connectivity. A school affiliated to CBSE up to 12th standard is also housed in the township and is run on the public school pattern. The school has become very popular - both for its academics and extra-curricular activities.