Founded by Late Shri B.L. Agarwal in the year 1965, East India Paper & Board Mills is a part of "BLA Group" of Industries. Being a pioneer in the field of oil, paper and flexible packaging. Mr. Agarwal was also the President of the Eastern India Oil Millers Association. The business activities, today on being run under the able guidance of his sons and grandsons Gajanand Agarwal, Ramanand Agarwal, Dayanand Agarwal, Rajesh Agarwal, Pranav Agarwal and Abhay Agarwal.

               From manufacturing coconut oil the group diversified into paper & paper board manufacturing. Its first paper mill, National Packing Industries, started out by making sun-dry board where the formation part was done by machines but the drying was done manually under the sun. Gradually the drying process was automated and the group's first automatic paper plant was set-up. This gave a big leap to the group for its future successful ventures.

               The groups second mill, East India Paper & Board Mills is manufacturing various types of coloured boards and white duplex boards for varied end-use.

               The groups third mill, RNRIC Paper Mills is manufacturing Kraft paper used in making corrugated cartons, paper cones and tubes and coloured papers used for manufacturing envelopes, paper plates and cups.

               The groups fourth mill, GRD Paper Industries Pvt. Ltd. is currently manufacturing Kraft paper. This mill is based on "fourdriniere" technology and is capable of manufacturing multiple products such as newsprint and writing / printing paper in addition to Kraft paper.

               We were the sole supplier of blue match board to Wimco, for making matchboxes. We are major suppliers of Yellow boards to various fire cracker manufacturers in Sivakasi - the "Cock" brand and Coronation Fireworks Company being two of the renowned ones. We are supplying white duplex board to manufacture sweet boxes, shoe boxes, shirt backings and collar stiffeners.

               The product portfolio developed by the company had enabled itself to operate successfully during the lean phase of the nineties which was characterized by falling demand and falling prices of grey board resulting in the closure of innumerable mills all over India. It was this wide portfolio of products which equipped the group to cater to a number of markets where the other mills were failing to do so.