About 1,070 units in Sivakasi can manufacture fireworks worth Rs 6,000-9,000 crore.
The town produces 85 per cent of the country's fireworks.
In the third of a six-part series T E Narasimhan finds out how the hub of India's firecrackers industry is coping after more than a month of the note ban.
The non-viability of green crackers may pave the way for e-crackers.