Atul Ltd 2011-12

Atul Ltd | Annual Report 2011-12 Our Research Unit has the mandate to improve the existing processes and products, validate assumptions and develop new products and formulations; thus using chemistry in a responsible way to support the endeavour to achieve strong presence in the marketplace and profitable and faster growth. Each Business has a dedicated R&D and QA Departments; these along with the Corporate R&D form RE Unit, with 258 employees. The Company is consistently investing in people and equipments to strengthen these vital functions for i) achieving cost leadership and assuring world-class quality, ii) lowering pollutants significantly and iii) introducing regularly new value added products and formulations. During the year, the Unit helped to overcome 46 manufacturing related problems and improve 78 processes. It developed 121 products and formulations and supported 8 scale-ups. It undertook 18 initiatives to cut down gaseous, liquid and solid pollutants. It is now well equipped to support introduction of new APIs and value added API intermediates in its new 22,000 PI R&D Centre, all belonging to Life Science Chemicals Segment. Research