The company provides end-to-end solutions. Its motto is total customer satisfaction by providing on-time delivery of high-quality products and services to its esteemed customers
Chemin Enviro Systems (P) Ltd. is a leading manufacturer of Multiple Effect Evaporators. The company, based out of Perundurai, Tamil Nadu, has carved a niche for itself in the textile industry with its Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) solutions. Giving a brief insight into the company’s history, Vikas Rathi, Vice President (Sales), Chemin Enviro Systems, says: “Prakash Narayanan started a small company in the year 2006 named as N K Chem Engineers. Hailing from a simple agricultural family, he was a first-generation entrepreneur. It was a small fabrication unit with six employees, two staff and a workshop admeasuring 600 sq. feet to start with. In 2013 we registered ourselves as Chemin Enviro Systems.”
Going into details regarding the solutions offered by the company, he says: “We offer complete ZLD solutions. Our core strength has been Multiple Effect Evaporators (MEE) and Agitated Thin Film Dryers (ATFD). We offer a range of options like falling film evaporators, forced circulation evaporators, rising film evaporators, agitated thin film dryers, etc. We also have in our basket Paddle Dryers commonly known as sludge dryers for ETP plants. Next is Caustic Recovery Plants (CRP) for the woven processing industry which have mercerizing units. We are a workforce of 160 people and a manufacturing facility of 1 lakh sq. feet. Very soon we plan to add another 1 lakh sq. feet for production.”
Answering a question on the company’s presence in India and other global markets, he points out that as of now it has a good presence pan-India which is being consolidated. “We have also tied up with one of the most reputed agents in the Bangladesh textile industry and are geared up to service that market as soon as it turns ZLD-compliant. We are also venturing into Dubai and Ethiopia but no executions overseas as yet,” he adds. According to Rathi, the company has successfully completed around 300 projects so far. “We have done more than 150 projects in the textile industry, including Nitin Spinners Limited, Bhilwara; Kanchan India Ltd., Bhilwara; Victus Dyeing, Tirupur; Jeyavishnu Textile Process Pvt Ltd, Tirupur; Maharaja Shree Umaid Mills Ltd, Pali; and Siddhi Knitfab Pvt Ltd, Ahmedabad,” he adds.
In the non-textiles sector, the company has completed projects for clients like Tata International Ltd, Birla Carbon India Pvt Ltd, Titan Company Limited, Ashok Leyland, Saint Gobain India Pvt Ltd, Lucas TVS Limited, Exide Industries Limited and Royal Enfield, among others. Pointing out the importance of the textile industry for Chemin Enviro Systems, Rathi states, “The textile industry is our bread and butter. We are sitting right next to the textile hub of India in Tirupur while Tamil Nadu is a leading state as far as zero tolerance for ZLD is concerned. We have learned a lot and learned it quick.”
Research and Development
The company is known for its strong research and development focus. Going into further details, Rathi elaborates: “Fortunately we have a management which invests tremendously in research and development activities. We have our own R&D centre accredited by DSIR and we have pilot plants of TVR-based evaporator, MVR-based evaporator, crystalliser, ATFD, sludge dryer, and stripper and distillation column wherein we can run any kind of customer’s samples and then design as per the customer’s requirements. Our customer-centric focus makes us a name to reckon with in the ZLD industry.”
Given that there are many Indian and global companies offering solutions similar to the company, why should a customer consider Chemin Enviro Systems for its requirement? Responding to this question, Rathi says: “We study the customer’s effluent characteristics, run them in our pilot plant and then offer tailor-made solutions. We don’t just provide equipment, we provide solutions. Our motto is total customer satisfaction by providing on-time delivery of high-quality products and services to our esteemed customers. Our shop is certified with U Stamp and NB. We follow the manufacturing codes as per ASME Sec VIII.”
“We have an efficient in-house quality team with the capability of doing non-destructive examinations. They check the correctness of the product at each and every stage and submit the reports to our clients,” he adds. Explaining how Chemin Enviro Systems can help textile companies achieve their sustainability goals, Rathi says, “Our continuous effort is towards operational cost optimisation. Very recently we have added the MVR system in our basket. This will help in tremendously reducing the running cost due to very low consumption of steam, cutting it down by almost 90%”.
Confident Outlook
With the government’s increasing focus on the textile industry and with many new projects having been announced and large investments expected, the company expects a good opportunity for its products and solutions in the future. “Surely, we do. We have a high conversion rate. We win almost six of every 10 orders we bid for. And we owe a lot of success to the textile industry. They have and will always be on our primary radar although we have done good business in the tannery industry, automobile industry, metal plating industry, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, etc.,” Rathi says. The company has set ambitious targets for the near future.
Listing them down, Rathi remarks, “We are a 15-year young company. The year 2020-21 had been sort of flat due to reasons out of our control, meaning the pandemic. But this year we expect to achieve the best year-on-year performance compared to any previous one in our 15 years’ span. Last year we invested in the in-house pilot for MVR system by importing leading brand blowers from Germany. Very soon we will have another 1,00,000 sq. feet of state-of-the-art manufacturing facility. Our target is to be an Rs 150 crore company by 2025.” The company has won several awards including India 5000 Best MSME Award for Quality Excellence 2020, Indian Achievers’ Award 2020-21 and India 500 SME Award for Quality Excellence 2021.