Atul-2013-14

Atul Ltd | Annual Report 2013-14

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 enhance our

environment performance, deepen and

broaden market presence and achieve

profitable, faster growth.

Each Business of Atul has dedicated Research

and Development (R&D) and Quality Assurance

Departments; these along with the Corporate

R&D form RE Unit, with 286 employees. The

Company is consistently investing in people and

equipment to strengthen these functions for

i) decreasing pollutants significantly by

modifying processes, ii) identifying and retrieving

products from pollutants, iii) assuring world-

class quality, iv) achieving close to theoretical

conversion efficiencies, v) making the processes

more robust, vi) decreasing time cycles and

vii) introducing new value added products and

formulations.

During 2013-14, the Unit worked with 211 Key

Initiatives. It helped to decrease pollutants in 23

products, decrease solvent charge in 33 products,

improve quality of 18 products, increase yield of

19 products, decrease rawmaterial consumption

in 10 products and improve processes of 23

products. It developed 67 products and

formulations and supported 38 scale-ups. It

refurbished Aromatics R&D facilities and has taken

up upgradation of Colors and Polymers R&D

facilities.

Research