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GKB Ophthalmics Limited was incorporated on 10th Dec. 1981. The company was granted a licence as a 100% E.O.U. in 1982. The factory at Tivim Industrial Estate Tivim Goa was set up financial assistance from the Economic Development Corporation of Goa Daman and Diu Ltd. and the The Maharashtra State Financial Corporation.The company is engaged in the manufacture and export of high quality single-vision mineral Ophthalmic lenses at Mapusa-Goa and commenced commercial production in May 1983. The Company has been consistently earning profits and paying dividend since 1988-89.The company has a total installed capacity of 13 lac lenses per annum.The company''s plant is equipped with the most advanced and sophisticated West German technology for manufacture of lenses.The plant has adequate production facilities and quality control systems to ensure high precision in the lenses manufactured by them. As a result GKB products have a good reputation in the field of ophthalmics.The company has consistently earned the distinction of winning the Chemicals and Allied Products Export Promotion Council''s (CAPEXCIL) Export Certificate of Merity year after year for the past eleven years i.e. from 1983-84 to 1993-94 in recognition of their export achievement in respect of ophthalmic lenses. In 1992-93 the Company also received an award from the Confederation of the Export Units (CEU) for the best performance in ophthalmic lenses.