The Company was originally incorporated as Hindusthan Seals Limited on December 27, 1984. Subsequently, the company has changed its name to Manaksia Limited. The companies Shares were listed on August 20, 1986 on the Calcutta Stock Exchange.

The company has specialists in the manufacture of packaging products (crowns, closures and metal containers), metal products and fast moving consumer goods, among others. The company has having 15 manufacturing plants in India and three abroad, two in Nigeria and one in Ghana. Mr. Basant Kumar Agrawal and Suresh Kumar Agrawal are promoted the company.

The company's metal packaging products include crowns, roll-on pilfer-proof closures, broadened its footprint polyethylene liners as well as push-open and other metal containers. In the fast moving consumer goods segment, the company is a dependable mosquito repellents outsourcing destination for the Mortein (owned by Reckitt Benckiser (India) Limited) and Maxo (owned by Jyothy Laboratories) brands.

The company has now diversified into the production of aluminium rolled products, secondary specification aluminium alloys and galvanised steel.

The company's wholly owned subsidiary in Nigeria, MINL Limited, was created and deployed in 1996 and is the market leader in ROPP caps and crown corks in Nigeria. It has also created and deployed facilities for the manufacture of galvanised steel, metal colour coated sheets and coils and secondary specification aluminium alloys.

The company also has subsidiary companies in Ghana (Dynatech Industries Ghana Limited) and Dubai (Euroasian Ventures FZE).