Sakar, a dream come true. What began as an expression of one man’s creativity and vision is now an organization working towards one mission – Inspire Ideas and Imagination to continually create environmentally friendly products that excite and exceed customer expectations.

Sakar was founded in 1995 by Col. Vijay Kumar and incorporated as a Private Limited Company in 1998. His son, Shravan Garg, now leads a team of 50+ people, including 35 women, working out of a 1100sqm factory located in Tijara, Rajasthan. The company has a turnover of ~ INR 320 million. 

A family owned and managed firm, Sakar and its people provide you with a personalised service experience. ‘Team Sakar’ swears by continual innovation and a commitment to deliver quality products on time. Our passion for Quality has made our products a benchmark for the industry. Customer loyalty, while inevitable, is never taken for granted. 

One of Sakar’s key values is a partnership driven approach, working together with our clients more as partners, than in a buyer-vendor relationship. We use the same approach with our suppliers. We work with a group of select suppliers for materials and services who partner us in delivering what we commit. We have invested time and resources, sharing knowledge and information, building skills, and setting the same standards for quality and service that we demand of ourselves. 

A majority of Sakar’s in-house staff are women. Our people are involved in value addition on paper, producing paper products, QC and the final packaging for dispatch. A sense of pride in their work and complete quality checks at every stage help our team to deliver consistent quality over time. Sakar is a family business with a high degree of people orientation. Our people are our biggest strength.

Eco Friendly Paper

We export a large range of environment friendly handmade paper made from 100% cotton rags that is wood free and near acid free. The cotton rags are pre-consumer factory waste from the hosiery industry. We offer paper in its natural form and also with various value-added processes like silk screen printing, embossing, foiling, and flocking. Given a large portfolio of base paper colours and designs, we offer each of our clients the opportunity to create their own unique collection. While the cotton rag paper constitutes a majority of our sales, we also offer paper made from other raw materials such as Banana Fibre, Hemp Fibre, Kapok Fibre and Jute Fibre. No waste paper or wood pulp is added during the production process. These fibres, while not new to the market, are increasingly being adopted for different applications. 

Eco Friendly packaging and Paper Products

Moving up the value chain, we offer and supply a range of paper products including Craft and Scrap-booking packs, Gift Bags and Boxes and Journals. We make custom-made products based on a client’s requirement. Custom boxes, Gift Bags and Wine bags are our most popular products. 

Clients

Sakar’s traditional clientele consisted of paper companies who required high quality eco-friendly papers to add to the  collection they could offer to their clients along with a few stores selling Journals and Gift Packaging. Today, we are producing eco-friendly packaging using paper made from different recycled fibres for socially conscious companies who want their products to make a statement. These include a small batch Chocolatier from California, a Hotel and Food segment supplier from Italy, a natural personal care product company in Australia and even a musical instruments manufacturer from Finland!

A brief list that includes companies we have worked with through our distribution partners

Barnes & Noble, USA

AW Faber Castell, Germany

MCS Industries, USA

Artoz Papier, Switzerland

Crane & Co., USA

Roessler Papier, Germany

True Fabrications, USA

Ch. Dahlinger, Germany

Epic Products Inc, USA

Galeries Lafayette/BHV, France

Beverly Clark Collection, USA

David Jones, Australia

Graphic Products Corp, USA

BigW, Australia

Partones OY, Finland

Officeworks, Australia

Bennet, Italy

Spotlight, Australia

Taz Group Srl, Italy

Franca Xenia, South Africa

Dandelion Chocolate Inc, USA

Dandelion Chocolate, Japan

Thurlby Herb Farm, Australia

PBS Factory GmBH, Germany

Tribal Paper, Germany

Flamigni Srl, Italy

Ideen Mit Herz, Germany

Kamino Ondo, Japan

Social Responsibility

Sakar sources eco-friendly paper and materials to create products that are recyclable and sustainable. Our clientele also subscribes to the view that we need to increase the use of sustainable products especially in areas where sustainable alternatives are readily available.

Taking this philosophy inwards and including the people we work with, we at Sakar encourage our partners to treat their employees and their environment fairly, as we do our own. Once people we work with are treated fairly and with respect they too can become champions of the ethos we work by. 

As the paper manufacturing units are located in a semi-urban area the labour employed is largely from the local community and includes over 50% women. Child labour is not used by us or any of our partners. No harmful waste matter is generated in our business. Any waste generated (packaging included) is recycled by selling to waste recyclers. All the water used during paper production is also treated using an ETP system and reused for gardening and cleaning purposes. 

In keeping with our efforts to make our presentation more sustainable we now use a stand constructed by a European company entirely from Kraft paper. Being a modular stand it can be reused multiple times.