Röchling expands location in India for the production of polypropylene sheets
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| From left: Bernhard Steinrücke, Franz Lübbers, Manoj Kumar |
Roechling Engineering Plastics (India) Pvt. Ltd. has inaugurated its second plant in Vadodara, India. The new plant and equipment bring Roechling India's production and warehouse space to a leadership position in the highly competitive Indian plastics market.
With an investment of around 2.5 million euros (200 million Rupees), the international Röchling Group strengthens the site in Vadodara and trusts in the future development of its Indian operations. In the presence of important business partners, Franz Lübbers, Member of the Management Board and CEO Röchling Industrial, cut the ribbon together with Manoj Kumar, Managing Director Roechling Engineering Plastics (India) Pvt. Ltd., inaugurating the new facility. They ceremoniously opened the new building together with Dr. Joachim Brunswicker, Member of the Management Board and CFO Röchling Industrial and Medical, Dr. Jürgen Morhard, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, and Mr. Bernhard Steinrücke, Director General of the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce.
Product range extended
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| The new plant (right) with more than 5,000 square meters |
In the new building Röchling's latest extrusion line works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, manufacturing the parent company's globally popular product Polystone® P (Polypropylene), in sheets form with a width of up to 2,500 mm and in lengths and thicknesses desired by the customer. The new calendaring lines provide exceptionally high dimensional tolerances and smooth surfaces typically required for equipment building in the chemical processing industry – for example, chemical tank and plant construction, water treatment, steel pickling and galvanising plants, as well as laboratory equipment.
Success story since 1998
Röchling made the first step into the Indian market in 1998 with the establishment of a sales office in Mumbai. In 2007, Röchling set up a state-of-the-art CNC machining center in Vasai supplying tailor-made composite components, and engineering plastics components for various industries.
In 2014, Röchling set up its first production plant in India for thermoplastics, in the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) in Manjusar, Savli Vadodara, manufacturing the Polystone® M (PE-UHMW), SUSTARIN C (POM - Polyacetal) sheets, rods and profiles for different industrial sectors.
The products of Roechling Engineering Plastics (India) Pvt. Ltd. are used in numerous industries, such as chemical tank and plant construction, power generation and transmission, mechanical engineering, bulk material handling, renewable energy, water treatment, orthopaedics and laboratory equipment.
Contributing to the company's success story is a committed team of more than 100 employees located at the production sites in Vadodara and Vasai and in the sales locations in cities across India including Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, and Chennai. A Technical Services team regularly conducts training programs across industrial locations imparting application training and design upgradation skills to customers, consultants, and designers.
With these good perspectives and the appreciation and demand for quality products in the Indian industry, Franz Lübbers announced in his speech that it is already planned to invest yet another 5 million euros into further product lines and capacity expansion in India in the near future.
About the Group
The Röchling Group, which is headquartered in Mannheim, includes 89 locations in 25 countries all over the world. With a workforce of 9,733 employees (31 December 2017), it manufactures its products in close proximity to the customers and markets. Three company’s divisions, Industrial, Automotive and Medical, generated total sales of € 1.841 billion on the European, American and Asian continents in 2017.
