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Hindustan Photo Films incorporated at Ooty

· Ooty

The public sector Hindustan Photo Films was incorporated to make photographic and X-ray films at Udhagamandalam.

Hindustan Photo Films Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1960 as a public sector company based at Udhagamandalam (Ooty) in the Nilgiris. It manufactured photographic films, cine films, X-ray films and photographic paper. Its products were sold under the brand name Indu. It was one of the central public sector units set up in the state in this period.

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