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HSIL plans to start production at ActuaPlast adds injection

Plastic pipe and fittings facility presses, finishing machine

SIL Ltd (formerly Hindustan Sanitaryware Ltd) ctuaPlast has three blow molding machines
H– known for its Hindware range of products – is Awith high-temperature capacity for engineering
planning to bring on stream its plastic pipes and fittings materials at its Livonia facility. In May, the French
manufacturing facility and caps and closures plant automotive supplier purchased two new Milacron
(required for packaging) by December. Both the units injection machines — one with 55 tons clamping force
are in Telangana. According to Sandip Somany, VC and and the other a 220-ton press. The company also
MD, the company is spending close to Rs. 160 crore for purchased an automatic finishing machine from Italian
the first phase of its CPVC and UPVC pipes and fitting industrial equipment supplier GS Finishing Machines
manufacturing plant generally used in plumbing and srl that will be delivered at the end of October. The
sanitation. Work on the second phase of the pipe making company declined to comment on how much it had
will start two invested in these new machines.The company has
years after three Ritmo manual welding machines for producing
phas e-1
commences
production.
This PVC
pipes product
line is an
extens io n
of its key
building materials product portfolio (that includes
sanitaryware and home decor).
Additional Rs. 150 crore has gone towards setting up a prototype parts, but Tymen said the addition of the
plant for the manufacture of security caps and closures. automatic finishing machine will enable ActuaPlast
These are generally required for protection of products to offer customers a finished blow molded part for
from counterfeiting and will be a value addition to its mass production.
packaging products division. The packaging division "Before, we had to subcontract the injected parts to
(that includes container glass and PET bottles) the supplier, and now we'll be able to do everything in-
contributes nearly 38 per cent of its turnover. “Both the house," said Virginie Perennou Tymen, administrative
pipe and fittings facility, and the caps & closure plant manager at ActuaPlast. With these new machines, we
should start commercial production by December this plan to double our sales revenue," she added.
year,” he told BusinessLine.
ActuaPlast's sales objective is to reach $2.5 million
This apart, the company is also spending another Rs. in 2017 and $5 million in 2018 at the Livonia facility.
50 crore towards de-bottlenecking at its sanitaryware To run the new injection presses, the company has
units in Telangana and Haryana. The de-bottlenecking hired a plastics injection molding processor and plans
should help the company take its capacity to 4.2 million to hire a plastics machinist/welder by the end of the
pieces. (Its current capacity is 3.8 million pieces.) The year. In addition, Perennou Tymen said ActuaPlast
company is looking to clock a turnover of Rs. 1,000 will hire seven other employees over the next year to
crore from its consumer business vertical including air cover sales, quality, project management, technician
purifiers, water purifiers, kitchen appliances and so and operator roles. ActuaPlast manufactures various
on.The segment, he says, has seen an 80-100 per cent under-the-hood technical parts, such as air intake
growth, and this growth rate is expected to continue. manifolds and air filters manufactured with injection
The segment contributes around Rs. 150 crore towards molding and 2D or 3D blow molded ducts for Tier 1
HSIL’s turnover, at present. and Tier 2 suppliers. The company has headquarters
in La Forêt Fouesnant, France, with an additional
location in China.

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