Nimbus Group buys Everest Vinyl

Nimbus Group has bought Everest Vinyl which had been closed since last one year. "We bought the factory for Rs 90 million at an auction," said managing director of Nimbus Group Anand Bagaria.
"Nimbus Group — an agribusiness enterprise with commercial farming,  poly-woven fabric, LPG refilling and agri-input trading businesses — is planning to transform the factory to a liquid chemical handling hub that can manufacture pesticides and other liquid chemicals that need special processing," he said.
"As soon as the factory is handed over, Nimbus Group will start installing new machines," informed the managing director of Nimbus Group that has been in the field of animal health and nutrition since the last decade.
Started as a feed supplement manufacturing unit focusing on exports to India, Nimbus graduated to marketing feed supplements and veterinary medicines in the local market followed by trading in feed grains by creating an effective rural distribution network. It also bought the popular Liquefied Petroleum Gas brand Nepal Gas recently.
Similarly, established in 2008 with a Rs 1 billion investment, Everest Vinyl used to produce carpets and other synthetic materials and export to international markets but due to a financial crisis the industry was closed last April. A consortium of banks led by Himalayan Bank that had lent more than Rs 1.5 billion had to take over the factory after the owners disappeared without repaying their loan.
Based in Hetauda Industrial Estate, the factory's proprietors Bikash Kothari and Raj Kumar Kothari went out of touch forcing the banks to auction the company’s property, its equipment and goods.
The banks had lent Rs 650 million to the factory three years back, but it failed to pay back both the principal and interest and ran away forcing the banks to pay compensation to the factory workers along with their due salaries.