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Our Technology and Manufacturing Unit
has the mandate to implement projects
and provide to the customers world class
quality products manufactured with the
rigour of continuous improvement in
process efficiency and people productivity
along with matching commitment to
safety, health and environment.
Each Business of Atul has dedicated Technology
and Manufacturing Departments; the combined
number of employees in these two departments
is 1,587. The Company is consistently investing
in people, plants and machineries to strengthen
these functions which in turn are engaged in
undertaking scale-ups, establishing state-of-the
-art manufacturing and related facilities,
commissioning projects, ensuring agreed volumes
and efficiency norms and achieving improvements
in Unit Operations and Unit Processes.
During 2013-14, the Unit worked with 283 Key
Initiatives. It implemented 8 debottlenecking and
expansion projects with an investment outlay of
`
13 cr and 14 projects with an investment outlay
of
`
47 cr to enhance environment performance;
26 projects with an investment outlay of
`
356 cr
were undertaken for implementation. The output
in volume terms was higher by 9%. It decreased
gaseous, liquid and solid pollutants in 45 products,
increased yields of 38 products, increased recovery
of solvents in 50 products, decreased water
consumption by 11% (at Ankleshwar Complex),
increased people productivity through automation
l mechanisation in 2 sections, decreased time cycle
in 18 products, increased batch size in 7 products
and debottlenecked capacity in 2 products.
Technology and Manufacturing