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# What gets anodised in India — and which plant each product needs

Every anodising request is downstream of a product that has to survive something. Four plant archetypes cover almost everything anodised in India, and object size decides which one you are actually buying.

Nobody sets out to buy anodising. They set out to make a product that has to survive something — a monsoon, a customer's thumb, a hydraulic seal, twenty-five years on a coastal roof. The finish is the answer, not the question.

Which plant you need is decided by **the size and shape of the object**, not by your industry. A cookware maker and a vacuum-flask maker buy the same line. A cookware maker and a window fabricator do not. Four archetypes cover almost everything anodised in India.

### [Long profile](/applications/profile-anodising-plant)

Window and door sections, curtain wall, louvres, solar mounting rails, metro and coach interior profiles, ladders, truck bodies.

**Tanks 6–7 m.** Sized by the longest extrusion. The largest capital decision of the four.

### [General rack](/applications/engineering-components-anodising)

Pneumatic cylinder tubes, valve spools, pistons, cone pulleys for textile machinery, machine-tool parts, heat sinks, aerospace components.

**Tanks 0.3–2 m.** Wear and lubricity drive the specification, usually hard anodising to MIL-A-8625 Type III.

### [Hollowware](/applications/cookware-anodising-plant)

Kadai, tawa, saucepans, pressure-cooker bodies, urli, vacuum flasks, bottles, tiffin carriers.

**Deep drawn and appearance-critical.** Tank length is set by the rack, not the part. A rack mark here is a reject, not a blemish.

### [Bulk / basket](/applications/small-parts-anodising-plant)

Rivets, screws, spacers, standoffs, handles, knobs, hinges, brackets, carabiners, pen and torch bodies, connector shells.

**Under 100 mm.** Processed packed in baskets, not hung. No part-length driver at all — the cheapest of the four plants.

## Why the archetype matters more than the industry

The four lines differ in tank geometry, jigging, transporter cost and floor area — and therefore in capital cost, in what fails, and in what you have to control. Our [plant cost and payback calculator](/calculators/anodizing-plant-cost) now asks which archetype you are building before it sizes anything, because a basket line sized on a profile-line formula produces a number that is wrong by a wide margin.

## Captive or job work

The second question that changes everything is who the plant serves. A **captive** line built to finish your own product earns no job-work income: its return is the outsourcing spend you stop paying, the rejects you stop absorbing on someone else's line, and — normally the largest term — the market you can quote for once you have the capability. A **job-work** shop earns a rate per square metre and carries sixty days of receivables. Same physics, opposite economics, and the calculator models both.

## Where to start

And if you already know the plant you want and need the numbers, the [plant setup snapshot](/services/plant-setup-snapshot) is a ₹2,500 written feasibility note in three working days.

If you know the product but not the plant, start with the archetype page above. If you know the plant but not the numbers, start with the [cost and payback calculator](/calculators/anodizing-plant-cost). If you are troubleshooting a finish that is already failing, start with [defect troubleshooting](/blog/anodising-defects-troubleshooting-india).