Please tell us about PPAP Automotives' journey so far.
The company was originally incorporated in the year 1978 to manufacture custom made extrusion products. We commenced the automotive parts business in the year 1985 with the start of production of the first Maruti cars in the Indian market. The firm was converted into a public limited company
in 2008.
Today, we are a leading manufacturer of automotive sealing systems, interior and exterior injection moulded parts. We are currently working with three Japanese companies for our technology requirements. For the sealing system we work with Tokai Kogyo, we have a very long and healthy relationship with them, spreading over more than 25 years now. They own a small equity of our company and in 2012 we have also set up another company with—them which is a joint venturecompany having equal equity partnership — to further enhance our product range for our customers. We have started a relationship in 2015 with their sister company to produce special toolings as well.
For the interior and exterior injection moulded products, we are working with Nissen Chemitec Corporation, Japan, an Ichimiya Group Company. The relationship started in 2007.
With both our technology partners, we continuously work to enhance the capabilities of local operations and our endeavour is to provide better value of products and services to all our customers.
Over a period of time PPAP has expanded its customer base and today supplies parts to most of the passenger vehicle manufacturers in India viz. Suzuki, Honda, Toyota, Renault Nissan, Isuzu, Tata Motors, GM and Mahindra & Mahindra. Today we manufacture over 500 different products for our customers and continuously target to achieve zero PPM in quality and delivery performance for all our customers.
Can you please elaborate on manufacturing capabilities of PPAP Automotive?
PPAP is a leading manufacturer of automotive sealing systems, interior and exterior injection moulded automotive parts in India. The company's state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities are located in Noida (UP), Greater Noida (UP), Chennai (Tamil Nadu) and Pathredi (Rajasthan). All the plants are TS 16949, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 certified. All the facilities are equipped with the latest technology available today for plastic extrusion as well as injection moulding.
The Automotive Sealing Systems are manufactured by the continuous Extrusion process. The company has Extrusion lines which are capable of processing Engineering polymers like PVC, PP, TPO, TPE and TPV materials. The company has Co-Extrusion facilities which are capable of extruding up to four different hardness materials into a single profile based on the customer's requirements.
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