Atul Ltd 2010-11

Technology The endeavour is to build a matrix organisation so as to avail the benefit of combining the strengths not only of the physical assets, but also of the people and their ideas. Technology Unit focuses on achieving excellence in Unit Processes and Unit Operations with the objective of maximizing the output, efficiency and productivity with equal emphasis on Safety, Health & Environment (SH&E). Bettering the yields, reducing utilities consumed, improving the recoveries, debottlenecking the capacities, automating, converting batch processes to continuous, etc are the initiatives pursued by the Unit to improve performance. Though placed under the umbrella of the Unit, each product group generally has a dedicated team focusing on manufacturing, technology improvements and projects. The combined number of employees of these departments is 1653. Given the significant backward integration and the major value addition in the manufacturing stage and also the manpower intensive processes, the performance of Atul significantly depends upon manufacturing efficiencies and people productivity. During the year, the output in volume term was higher by 16%. There were in all 67 initiatives taken up to bring about multifarious improvements: 16 for yields, 26 for utilities, 8 for recoveries, 9 for debottlenecking, 7 for automating and 1 for converting batch process to continuous. The Company began to put in place a new process to enhance the quality of reporting related to Corporate Governance. 16 I 17