Atul Ltd 2013-14

19 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