DPIIT issued an order seeking report on TGU usage by Timber Products Industries
After the prolonged war in West Asia, disrupting the supply of Urea in India, the misusage of agriculture grade Urea by few Industrial entities had been reported, therefore to curb such malpractices the Ministry of Commerce and Industry has recently issued an order concerning the collection of information relating to the Timber Products Industry using Technical Grade Urea which will mandate country’s all wood panel industries engaged in the manufacture of Plywood, Hardboard, Fibre-board, Chipboard and the like, specified under Item 36 of the First Schedule to the Act and using Technical Grade Urea (TGU) directly or through a TGU-based intermediate product to shall submit data on (iTSMS) portal in the prescribed format.
The information is likely to be uploaded on the Portal- Integrated TGU Supply Management System (iTSMS), developed by the Department of Fertilisers for collection of information relating to usage of TGU.
Sumeet Kumar Jarangal, Joint Secretary- DPIIT
Earlier during the FIPPI’s 1st India International Plywood and Panel Congress (IIPPC 2026), held on 2nd Nov, Sumeet Kumar Jarangal, Joint Secretary- DPIIT also laid the emphasis on the need to develop a framework for the traceability of technical grade Urea, procured by various wood panel industries across the country so that the use of technical grade Urea for industry purpose can be encouraged.
Following this order, the Consumer Industry Section of DPIIT has invited all the concerned industries including FIPPI and related associations to send their comments directly to Shri Sumeet Dalal, Section Officer Consumer Industry Section- DPIIT by 15th November.
Dr M P Singh, Director General, FIPPI
Talking with Ply Reporter, Dr M P Singh, Director General, FIPPI said, “FIPPI is always in favor of traceability of Technical grade urea consumption in Industry, and we also support this but the recent proposal of Government has focused only Timber based Industry whereas the most of Wood Panel producers buy resin from Resin Manufacturers, hence FIPPI demands to fix the responsibility of Resin manufacturers along with wood based panel Industry. In this proposal The Government must mandate to collect data of Technical grade urea usage from Resin manufacturers also”.
In past, government had also carried out multiple raids to clamp down multiple such panel product manufacturers, engaged in the use of agriculture grade Urea for industrial plywood and panel product production. In the wake of such offense, the govt is bound to take the stringent measures to put a halt on such ill practices once and for all.
On the brighter side, this proposed mandate also present an opportunity for Plywood manufacturers to take a shift from UF based Plywood to PF or MF Plywood products as the procurement of technical grade Urea at reasonable pricing has always been a quest owing to a very few oversea supplier and custom regulations.