Research And Development
Focus Area
Identifying technical (product/applications) growth areas through customer activities, exhibitions, publications and technical interactions
Support water based printing and complete replacement of solvent based coatings with water based coatings
Increase the occupancy of value adds in the products baskets
Reduce our carbon footprints through down gauging in our products and reducing consumption of raw materials & fuel
Infrastructure
R&D labs with most sophisticated equipments in India
Some of the equipments
- Barrier Testing (OTR & MVTR)
- Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)
- Thermo Gravimetric Analysis (TGA )
- Mass Spectrometer (MS)
- Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer
- Perkin Elmer FTIR
- UV spot coating and screen printing
- Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
- ANSI Barcode scanner
- UV flexoproof 100
- Screen, UV Flexo, Direct Thermal and Thermal Transfer printers
Achievements
Recognition and certification by Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, Government of India
Support water based printing and complete replacement of solvent based coatings with water based coatings
Multiple patents with 6 in India and 3 in US
Multiple product development Awards such as Indiastar, IFCA STAR and PFFCA STAR awards
First thermal lamination film to take extrusion coating without the primer
Recent R&D led infrastructure Investment
Investment of 1M$ in new R&D centre in India
New pilot line for customized product trials for film manufacturing, coating and lamination.
Product Application Centre to validate print quality in-house
Multiple product development Awards such as Indiastar, IFCA STAR and PFFCA STAR awards
Installation of a new highly automated 2.2 meter coating line by mid 2019; capable of both sides coating in a single pass