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INDIA EXTRA
Mahant: Aiming High
equipment available, for testing, quality control and development. “Adding or increasing capacity is
a continuous process and the expansion is just not limited to tread rubber alone. We expand vertically and horizontally in stages, and we have put up a strong infrastructure to support that” says Managing Director, Mr. Ajit Patil.
In order to meet the demand for quality, capacity, product range and depth, Mahant is pumping in investment to its manufacturing facility. The firm has added one more intermixer of 275 litres to
its already
existing stable
of 2
intermixers.
“This particular
investment will
have a double
edge impact,
one pertaining
to capacity and
the other will
improve the
blend of our
rubber
compound thus
realizing consistent quality, ultimately helping us in our endeavour to satisfy our customers” informs Mr. Yashwant Katte - G. M (Operations).
In addition to a range of tread rubber and allied products Mahant is also pushing hard on its range of repair materials. The brand VULTEC – tyre and tube repair patches has been registered under the copyright act is claimed to be making progress in the domestic and international market.
Gauging the buoyancy of the market, Mahant has built a whole new factory measuring 24000 sq feet spearheaded by Sudhir Tomar – ex Unipatch Rubbers Ltd., who commented ‘’We have improved our production systems in line with the world's best and I am sure we will catch up and exceed the expectations of the market in terms of product depth and quality.”
With a large product range and significant capacity Mahant is exploring opportunities in both the domestic and international markets. The company claims to have made made interesting
advances and major breakthroughs in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Orissa in the domestic market as well as in international markets like the European Union, Middle East, and Africa, which have yielded results in excess of expectations. The company's latest achievement has been in its agreement with CEAT who will be sourcing tread rubber and repair materials produced by Mahant for domestic and international sales. Big institutional customers like Tyresoles (India) pvt. Ltd. and
Tread rubber manufacturer Mahant was established in the year 1989 by Mr.Ajit Patil, a chemical engineer by profession, ably assisted and supported by qualified professionals in technical, quality assurance, procurement, operations and marketing as well as research and development.
The company reports a growth of 27 per cent during 2010 - 2011, all achieved despite high volatility in natural rubber and synthetic rubber prices plus the burgeoning economic crisis in the global market.
Mahant today claims a position as one of India’s leading players in the field of manufacturing conventional and precured tread rubber. The company produces and supplies materials for processing 500,000+ tyres per annum for nearly every segment from minidor to tractor / OTR tyres, wherein, they not only manufacture conventional tread rubber and precured tread rubber but also materials like bonding, vulcanising gum, tyre and tube patches (for bias and
radial tyres in versa cure/ face gum and chemical curing systems), chemical vulcanizing fluid, black vulcanizing cement, curing bags, flaps and automotive tubes.
Today, Mahant claims that it is one the biggest suppliers of tread rubber in India supported by a strong dealer and direct network base.
Mahant's state of the art manufacturing plant is located in the border town of Belgaum, Karnataka which is considered as the transport hub between Maharashtra, Karnataka and Goa. It has made heavy investments in its infrastructure; for example in rubber compounding done in sophisticated and automated intermix and Banbury equipment, with fully automatic computer controlled operations; precured tread presses, mixing mills, hot feed extruders and cushion gum applicators as well as calenders with cooling lines. The company also says it has access to the best testing
regional transport corporations like NEKRTC, NWKRTC, BMTC & MSRTC are also claimed to have increased their off take, thanks, according to Mahant, to the company’s quality, mileage performance, service and pricing. Meanwhile, Mumbai's premier city transportation service BEST has registered Mahant as an approved supplier of PCTR, bonding/ vulgum, B.V.C and repair materials for their tender contractors.
Mahant says it has invested significantly in its R&D division and takes pride in saying that it has one of the best; fully equipped in house sophisticated laboratories in the industr y. There it conducts and follows stringent quality standards for the inspection and testing of; incoming raw materials; testing of in work-in-process compounds to ensure good dispersion, materials by rheometer, viscometer, tensile testing machine to ensure that they meet its benchmarked standards, finished products are thoroughly tested before the material is dispatched to the end customer.
The Mahant calandar line has automatic cooling installed
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