Murugappa Group - Group companies

Ambadi Enterprises Limited is an ISO 9001 and SA 8000 certified company dealing in 100 per cent export of textiles, home furnishing and carpets.

Contact
554 Udyog Vihar Phase-5
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Tel: 0124 6398037/ 0124 6398032
Email: sales@ambadienterprises.com

Distributor of a wide array of financial services products to corporate, high net worth individuals and retail clients, its products include mutual funds, fixed income instruments, life insurance and home loans, and reaches over 21 cities. Established in 2000, the company mobilises over Rs 1000 crore of investments in a year.

Cholamandalam AMC Limited (CAMC) is an asset management company which offers mutual funds to retail and institutional investors. It was set up in 1996, as a joint venture with Cazenove Investment Management of the UK. In 2001, Cazenove's stake was aquired by the Group. CAMC is a subsidiary of CIFCO. Chola Triple Ace, India's first AAAf-rated mutual fund scheme, has retained its rating since its inception and has a consistent track record of dividend payments. Based in Mumbai, CAMC manages over Rs 1000 crore in assets.

CMSRSL offers specialised risk services to the Indian industry and to multinational companies in India and Asia. CMSRSL's speciality is state-of-the-art risk management services, tailored to suit the risk management needs of different businesses. It has a multidisciplinary team of engineers and managers, with experience across a range of industries.

Cholamandalam Securities Limited or C-Sec is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Co Ltd (CIFCO). A corporate member of the National Stock Exchange, the Stock Exchange, Mumbai, and the Madras Stock Exchange, C-Sec is a depository participant with offices at Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad and Mumbai, serving institutions, high net worth individuals and non-resident Indians.

Coromandel pioneered the technique of pneumatic caisson, kick automisation diesel pile drivers and tubular scaffolding. The company was the first to introduce pre-engineered building systems in India. It has also pioneered anti-corrosion engineering and plastic fabrication through Prodorite India Limited, and has a strategic tie-up with the world leader in pre-engineered building systems, Butler Manufacturing Company of the USA.

Contact
Parry House,
3rd Floor
43, Moore Street,
Chennai - 600 001
Tel: (+91-44) 534 1513
Fax: (+91-44) 534 2822

Situated on the edge of the Western Ghats, this tea estate was once a hunting ground for the Earl of Warwick. Blessed with copious rainfall, it has developed into one of the best estates in the region and is the winner of the coveted Tea Board Award for the highest yield in its category.

Laserwords Private Limited was founded in 1983 as a software company, and continues to leverage that capability to provide technology-driven solutions for print and media production. Today, it is one of the oldest and most successful independent typesetting companies in India, offering its clients a wealth of experience combined with cutting-edge production methods and creative strategies for reducing cost and time-to-market for projects large and small.

Laserwords employs approximately 800 people in media production, software, composition, graphics production, full-service project management, and keyboarding. Its two production facilities are located in Chennai, with sales and customer and technical support offices in East Sussex-UK, Sydney-Australia, and multiple locations in the USA.

Contact
Arihant ePark
117/1 L.B. Road
Adyar, Chennai 600 020
India
Tel: (+91-44) 24421616
Fax: (+91-44) 24915277
Email: info@laserwords.com

Murugappa Morgan Thermal Ceramics Ltd is a JV of the Thermal Ceramics Division of Morgan Crucible Company plc, UK and CUMI, with Morgan holding a 51 per cent share.

MMTCL is in the business of engineered solutions for high temperature insulation, providing significant energy savings and productivity improvement. The company manufactures a complete range of ceramic fibre products and serves many industries including Iron & Steel, Aluminium, Metal Processing, Furnace Building, Power, Ceramics and Chemical Processing. The major focus is the domestic market in which MMTCL is the leader. The company’s new thrust area is to promote the fire resistance functionality of the product in process industries and building construction.

Contact
Post Box No.1570,
Dare House Complex,
(Old No.234)
New No. 2,
N S C Bose Road,
Chennai - 600 001
Tel: (+91-44) 530 6789
Fax: (+91-44) 2534 5985

Based at Chennai in India, Net Access (India) Private Limited provides quality IT infrastructure services and customised software solutions to enterprises seeking to outsource their IT requirements. Net Access builds B2B connectivity modules like secure dealer / supplier extranets and intranets with both WAN connectivity and VPNs. With a reliable, scalable and a secure IT infrastructure becoming a prerequisite for business growth, implementation is now a highly specialised operation. Research shows 80 per cent of IT budgets go towards service and support costs, which means proper implementation and support is the key to making investments in IT infrastructure work, by implementing and maintaining complete corporate IT infrastructure right down to the end-user level.

Along with providing IT support for most Murugappa Group companies, Net Access also manages the mail servers for the entire Murugappa group under the domain name Murugappa.com on Microsoft exchange servers. The network comprises 45 servers with 3500 mailboxes across the country with a single Internet gateway.

Contact
Net Access (India) Private Limited
"Parry House" 6th Floor
No: 43, Moore Street,
Chennai - 600 001, India.
Tel: (+91-44) 2535 3550 to 53
Fax: (+91-44) 2535 3554

This rubber estate, near the southern tip of India, has one of the highest yields in the country. Rubber is grown here in over 500 hectares of land using advanced planting techniques. The estate has pioneered the production of chemically modified rubber. Interspersed with the rubber are a large number of coconut groves, which adds to the bio-diversity. Producers of CENEX, RSS, PLC, EBC and PA80 grades of rubber.

Contact
Parry House,
Fifth Floor
43, Moore Street
Chennai - 600 001
Tel: (+91-44) 2530 6811
Fax: (+91-44) 2535 8114

PEIL (formerly known as Parry Engineering and Exports Ltd.) was established in the year 1991. The company has under its umbrella three business divisions - General Marketing, Tuflex and Travels.

Tuflex Division
Tuflex India (formerly Netlon India) is a leader in the field of polymer nets and knitted fabrics. Tuflex India is a pioneer in window based mosquito screens with its brands like Radium, Nova and Netlon are synonymous with mosquito screens in India. Tuflex is also a leading provider of solutions for various infrastructural projects in the field of Geosynthetics and has also introduced Tuflex InstaCool, a ready to install exterior weather control curtain. Other vital applications include packaging, agro shading, garden products and sericulture.

Contact
201/202 Regent Tower
Race Course Circle
Vadodara - 390 007
Phone : 0265 2312900
0265 2327239
0265 2327241
Email: netlon@tuflex.net
Website: www.polymernets.com

General Marketing Division (GMD)
Commencing its trading operations from 1927 as the sole selling agent of leading brands, today the division has tie-ups with Indian and multinational companies like International Flavours and Fragrances, Biocon, Mitsui - Malaysia and Uni President -Taiwan for marketing their range of food products and ingredients that find application in end use segments like biscuits, dairy, bakery, processed foods and confectionery. GMD has launched natural fruit and vegetable juices under the brand name Unif. Another major initiative is the launch of the packaged drinking water in bubble tops under the Parry brand.

Contact
"Dare House Extension"
17 Rajaji Salai
Chennai 600 001
Tel: 044 2530 6496
Email: BhaskarMK@parry.murugappa.com

Travels division
Parry Travels is one of the oldest IATA accredited agencies in Chennai. It is a full service travel business catering to all the needs of the business and holiday traveller like airline ticketing, passport, visa, forex, conferencing, incentive tours, holiday packages, Corporate Groups etc.

Based in London, it is one of the world's leading design companies for soft furnishings, which includes handwoven fabrics, silks and embroideries. One of Parry Murray's major suppliers is Group company Ambadi Enterprises Ltd, which supplies hand-woven fabrics, intricate embroideries, floor coverings like carpets, cotton and woollen dhurries and natural fibre products of coir and jute to Parry Murray.

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Unit 12,
Saxon Business Centre,
Windsor Avenue
London SW 19 2RR
Tel: 0044 208 5441998
Fax: 0044 208 5441095

Placon (India) Pvt Ltd is the manufacturing arm of Prodorite Anti Corrosives' (PACL) Fibre Reinforced Plastic Division, and a part of the Murugappa Group. The facility, situated at Tiruvallur, near Chennai, makes customised equipment in fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) like tanks, pipes, gratings and scrubbers, for corrosive industries. It also manufactures FRP cooling towers, I-beams and scrubbing systems.

The company has an impressive client list (through PACL) of more than 200 companies. A few more prominent ones:

Principal products

	FRP gratings
	FRP tanks, pipes and fittings
	FRP cooling towers
	I-beams
	Scrubbing systems

D Manavalan - Works in-charge
Tel: (+91-44) 27660873, 27660116
Email: manavaland@prodorite.com

Polutech Ltd is part of the USD 2 billion Murugappa Group, and was established in 1981with collaboration from EPI Inc, USA. The company designs, manufactures, supplies and sets up systems and equipment for industrial waste water treatment and recycling, for a client base of more than 600 companies. An ISO 9001:2000 company, its manufacturing facility is located at Thiruvallur, near Chennai.

Quality first
With a firm commitment to excellence, the company has a quality policy it strictly adheres to:

Polutech's approach to waste disposal can be summed up as total water management, which implies and includes single source responsibility, consistent quality, assured performance, return on investment, value added services and utility management (O&M).

Membrane technology
In membrane technology for waste water recycling and desalination, it provides:

	Selection of suitable membrane technology
	Pilot plant facility for ultra filtration (UF), nano filtration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO)
	Pilot plant for membrane bio reactor (MBR)
	Complete selection of module type
	Process and engineering assistance
	Installation, startup, and training
	Ongoing service and technical support from Koch Membrane, USA

Areas of business
Drinking water treatment, treatment plants for municipal waste water, and industrial waste water, Membrane desalination and recycling systems for waste water, effluent treatment plants for industries and towns.

Technical partners

Equipment:	EPI Inc, USA
Anaerobic reactor:	Biotim NV, Belgium
Membrane process:	Koch Membrane Systems Inc, USA
Membrane bioreactor:	Puron, Germany
Membrane diffusers:	ENVICON Luft-und Wassertechnik GmbH & Co, KG, Germany
Disc membranes:	MFT-Germany

Products and services
Equipment for water treatment plants:

	Surface aerators of high and low speed
	Clarifier mechanisms
	Thickener mechanisms
	Plate clarifiers
	Sand and carbon filters

Services

	Process know-how
	Design and detail engineering
	Suply, construction and installation
	Personnel training
	Turnkey plants
	After sales service
	Operation and maintenance

Contact
K Ravichandran -Deputy General Manager
Polutech Ltd
Parry House, V Floor
43, Moore Street
Chennai - 600 001, INDIA
Tel: (+91-44) 25358308 / 25306668 to 72
Mobile: (+91) 9840291051
Fax: (+91-44) 25358302

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Prodorite Anticorrosives Ltd (PACL), a 100 per cent subsidiary of Carborundum Universal Ltd is in the field of Corrosion Engineering since 1962.

PACL, an ISO 9001 company, offers wide range of product categories to resist corrosion, in both the industrial and household sectors. It is one of the few companies in the Murugappa Group that serves a large number of end-user industries. PACL undertakes turnkey jobs for corrosion protection, from manufacturing, execution and installation, to commissioning. PACL makes:

Acid resistant products: Acid resistant cements like silicate, synthetic resin cement, plasticised sulphur cement, bitumastic products, and acid resistant carbon bricks / tiles.

Construction chemicals: Grouts, repair mortars, bonding agents, protective coatings, epoxy floor toppings, admixtures, concrete curing compounds, sealants, waterproofing and tile adhesives.

Fibre Reinforced Plastics (FRP) fabrication: For corrosion environment industries - storage tanks, process vessels, pipes and fittings, ducts and dampers, scrubbers, cooling towers, wet electrostatic precipitator (WESP) casings, i-beam, channels, oratings, roofing sheets, panels and other custom built items.

Polymer concrete products: Electrolytic cell for copper refinery and pre- cast drain to handle corrosive chemicals.

Contact
A 57 & 58 Thattankulam Road,
Madhavaram,
Chennai - 600060
Tel: (+91-44) 2553 0953
Fax: (+91-44) 2553 0374

A subsidiary of Carborundum Universal, SEDCO operates a five megawatt natural gas based power plant primarily as a captive source of power for the Murugappa Group, at Nallur, Tiruvarur district, Tamil Nadu.

Contact
Parry House,
Sixth Floor,
43, Moore Street,
Chennai - 600 001
Tel: (+91-44) 5221 6789
Fax: (+91-44) 2535 8176

Another CUMI subsidiary, it is one of the leading manufacturers of vitrified and resin-bonded grinding wheels for 32 years. An ISO-9001 certified company since 1997, it has a record for prompt delivery and excellent customer service and caters to major industries like auto, auto ancilliary, ball bearing, steel, surgical blades and general engineering. Through in-house R&D, it has mastered the manufacture of rice rollers, and is the largest supplier of rice polishing wheels in India.

Contact
Plot No 45/46, G.I.D.C Estate,
Odhav Road,
Ahmedabad-382415
Tel: (+91-79) 2287 0905 / 2287 0907 / 3091 1595 / 3091 1655 / 3104 2346 (Sales)
Fax: (+91-79) 2297 4102
Email: Sales@sterlingabrasives.com

A joint venture with Wendt Gmbh, Germany, Wendt (India) manufactures world renowned range of Diamond / CBN grinding tools and machines for cutting tools and wire rod mills, as well as a comprehensive range of diamond / CBN products that cater to virtually every segment of the engineering industry.Wendt provides grinding solutions to industries as diverse as automobile, ceramics, carbide HSS cutting tools, glass, refractories, machine tools, steel, watch, aerospace, engineering and many more. Wendt technological superiority comes from its international heritage and access to the latest technology.

Contact
69/70, SIPCOT Industrial Estate
Hosur - 635 126
Tel: 04344 276851 / 276852 / 276254
Fax: 04344 276853 / 276253