Atul Ltd 2012-13

Atul Ltd | Annual Report 2012-13 Our Research Unit has the mandate to sustain and improve our existing processes and products and develop new products and formulations, thus using chemistry in a responsible way to support our endeavour to achieve a strong presence in the marketplace and profitable, faster growth. Each Business has dedicated Research and Development (R&D) and Quality Assurance Departments; these along with the Corporate R&D form RE Unit, with 248 employees. The Company is consistently investing in people and equipment to strengthen these vital functions for i) assuring world-class quality, ii) decreasing pollutants significantly, iii) achieving close to theoretical conversion efficiencies, iv) developing or retrieving products from pollutants, v) making the processes robust, vi) decreasing time cycles and vii) introducing new value added products and formulations. During the year, the Unit worked with 198 Key Initiatives. It helped to improve quality of 18 products, decrease pollutants in 15 products, increase yields of 22 products, decrease solvent charge in 17 products and improve processes of 26 products. It developed 68 products and formulations and supported 25 scale-ups. It is now well equipped to develop new APIs and value added API intermediates in its new 22,000 square feet PI R&D Centre, all belonging to Life Science Chemicals Segment. Research