Non-Traditional Manufacturing Processes and the Need for Organizations to Revisit Coverage under Factories Act

the classification of a process as a ‘manufacturing process’ depends on the predominant nature of the activities performed by the establishment. As India is growing to become a hub of global capability centres, the compliance / regulatory teams of an establishment should carefully evaluate the definition of ‘manufacturing process’ to understand if a process apparently not involving transformation of an article from raw material to a finished product or not entailing commercial gain can still be construed as being covered under the Factories Act.