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The main focus of our Technology Unit is to provide to the customers with
world class quality products manufactured with the rigour of continuous
improvement in process efficiency and people productivity along with equal
commitment to safety and environment.
Technology
Each Business has dedicated Manufacturing and Technology functions; they share the responsibility
of meeting the agreed volume and efficiency budgets on the one hand and achieving consistent
improvements in Unit Operations and Unit Processes. In particular, the mandate is to improve yields,
obtain maximum recoveries, lower electricity, water and steam consumptions, make the processes
robust and thereby reduce off-spec batches, reduce manual work, ensure safety, consistently reduce
environment impact, etc and thus significantly contribute in improving the quality and consistency of
profit. The combined number of employees in these two functions is 1589.
During the year, the output in volume term was higher by 13%. There were in all 130 initiatives taken
up to bring about multifarious improvements: 25 for yields, 21 for raw materials, 47 for capacity
enhancement, 17 for utilities, 3 for automation and 1 for converting batch process to continuous
and 16 for improving Safety, Health & Environment performance. An investment of
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52 cr was made
to enhance the capacity and eliminate a major liquid effluent stream, the full benefit of which will
commence in 2012-13.