Atul Ltd 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