Sago and starch · since 1958
Ponvel Sago & Starch
Buys tapioca from farmers around Salem and Namakkal and makes sago (javvarisi) and starch for food and textile mills.
About Ponvel Sago & Starch
P. Ponnusamy started the unit in 1958 with two drying yards and a hand-turned rasper on Omalur Road. Tapioca still comes from the same villages; some families have sold to us for three generations.
The unit became a private limited company in 1974. It makes white and nylon sago for the food trade and native starch for textile sizing, and sells through the Salem Starch and Sago Manufacturers' Service Industrial Co-operative Society (SAGOSERVE) and directly to mills.
- Works
- Omalur Road, Salem
- Tapioca from
- Salem and Namakkal districts
- Sells through
- SAGOSERVE auctions and direct to mills