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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