1 Cover photograph: ‘If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.’ − Albert Einstein The Sanmar Group 9, Cathedral Road, Chennai 600 086. Tel.: + 91 44 2812 8500 Fax: + 91 44 2811 1902 Sanmar Holdings Ltd Sanmar Consolidations Ltd Chemplast Sanmar Ltd Sanmar Shipping Ltd TCI Sanmar Chemicals S.A.E. Cabot Sanmar Ltd Sanmar Speciality Chemicals Ltd Sanmar Engineering Technologies Ltd - Products Divn. Flowserve Sanmar Ltd BS&B Safety Systems (India) Ltd Sanmar Engineering Services Ltd Xomox Sanmar Ltd Xomox Valves Divn. Pacific Valves Divn. Tyco Sanmar Ltd - Steel Castings Divn. Sanmar Foundries Ltd Matrix Metals LLC 2 In this issue... 12 21 4 The Sanmar Group 25 4 Annual Day CII Environment, Health and Safety Awards for 9 Chemplast Sanmar IOB honours ‘Eminent 10 Citizens’ 12 Cabot and Sanmar in ‘Stability - a key element It’s Madhuram 11 ‘Paint India’ show for growth prospects’ 23 Narayanan Centre’s 24th N Kumar’s interview to Anniversary New Polymer Reactor 18 ‘Guiding Star’ - Bank of and Paste PVC Drier India's publication 12 dedicated at Chemplast, ‘Coastal Cleanup’ Mettur “Preservation of Ozone 24 at Karaikal 20 Layer” workshop at ‘GASPAC’ Quick Repair Chemplast, Mettur Centre commissioned 13 at Flowserve Sanmar, Chemplast organises RV campus and VSD Karapakkam 21 medical camp at Mettur 25 auditorium at Sankara Vidyashramam Sanmartini Trophy: Madhuram Narayanan 14 Learning with fun Centre 22 Early screening an answer Legends from the South Sruti launches its to learning disabilities in 26 16 Android/iOS App children PB Srinivas Matrix can be viewed at www.sanmargroup.com Designed and edited by Kalamkriya Limited, 9, Cathedral Road, Chennai 600 086. Ph: + 91 44 2812 8051/ 52 For Private Circulation Only. 3 event The Sanmar Group Annual Day 2013 was held on November 26-27at Hotel Leela Palace. Of the distinguished guest speakers of the morning, Arun Bharat Ram, Chairman, SRF, impressed the audience with his wisdom and wit during a thoughtful lecture on “Family businesses and family values,” drawing from his personal experience, while Tarun Das, former Chief Mentor, CII, took it on an exciting tour of “Politics and Economy”. Vijay Sankar’s presentation on the Group’s “Business Overview and Challenges” was grounded in hard facts and “Anything that affects our values “In family businesses values rendered with conviction. The day or our strategic positioning in are sacrosanct and do not also witnessed team presentations the market certainly needs to be change over time including from Chemplast, Mettur on “Best in escalated. Values are extremely generational changes”. critical. There is no compromise”. class – A road map for maintenance - Arun Bharat Ram on function”, Sanmar Engineering’s -Vijay Sankar “Family Businesses and Family Technology branch on “Leveraging Values”. 4 event “In 2017 we will pass China on B Natraj anchored a Sarada Jagan conducted the growth rate. We will be number presentation and discussion day’s proceedings. 1 in the world on growth. We are on “Ethics policies and going to show the world a new processes”. model of development”. - Tarun Das on “Politics and Economy”. 5 technology to increase sales productivity” and RECOGNITION the Corporate HR team on “Digitisation of HR Personnel files”. The previous evening, senior Sanmar employees and their spouses met at dinner to recognise and commemorate ‘long service awardees’ and ‘employees of the year’. Significantly, N Sankar received his Long Service Award for steering the Group from the helm for 45 years. The décor at the hall was in keeping with N Sankar received the long sevice award from this year’s theme for the evening - ‘Festival V Narayanan, Director, The Sanmar Group Corporate Board. of lights’. Long Service Awardees Clockwise: N Krishnamurthy, V Ramesh, S Surendranath, S Sekar, T Muralidharan and R Dharmarajan receiving their long service awards from N Kumar and N Sankar respectively. 6 RECOGNITION Employees of the Year N Krishnamurthy, G Sankara Subramanian, Narendra P Nemade, Ramadevi Ravi, and N Palanisamy receiving the 'Employee of the Year' award from Vijay Sankar. The Chemplast cricket team, which won the all India BCCI Corporate Trophy and the Palayampatti Shield, receiving the ‘Employee of the Year’ award from N Sankar and Vijay Sankar. Fun’n games Sukanya Sankar (2nd from left) with spouses of Sanmarites, the winners of the quiz on the ‘festival of lights’. 7 The Sanmar Group Annual Safety Awards 2013 Sanmar recognises and appreciates the efforts and Process Category progress made by its plants and units across business locations in adhering to safety standards and practices. Cabot Sanmar, Mettur Winner The safety awards are presented under four distinct Chemplast Sanmar, Mettur Plant III Runner-up 1 Chemplast Sanmar, Cuddalore Runner-up 2 categories - Process, Non Process, Castings and RECOGNITION Shipping. The awards are given based on reports by a Non Process Category panel of experts in the field. Tyco Sanmar, Viralimalai Winner Flowserve Sanmar, Karapakkam Runner-up Castings Category SFL, Sand Foundry, Viralimalai Winner SFL, Investment Foundry, Viralimalai Runner-up Shipping Category MT Sanmar Sonnet Winner MT Sanmar Stanza Runner-up S Venkatesan received the award for Cabot Sanmar, Mettur. L Sathyanarayanan and G Muralidharan received the award for Tyco Sanmar. K Shankar and RS Rajendra Kumar received the award for SFL, Captain GNV Rajaram, Master MT Sanmar Sonnet received the Sand Foundry, Viralimalai. award. 8 CII Environment, Health and Safety Awards for Chemplast RECOGNITION Sanmar Chemplast Mettur and Chemplast Cuddalore received three stars and Cabot Sanmar received two stars from the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) (Southern Region) for excellence in Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) the year 2013. The awards and certifications were received by P Manoharan of The Sanmar Group from Ramesh Kymal, Chairman & Managing Director, Gamesa Wind Turbines, on 7 March 2014 at a function organised at Hotel Sheraton Park, Chennai. Ranchhod B Dabhi of the Jamnagar branch of Sanmar Engineering Services Limited bagged the third prize in a safety talk competition on “Operational Discipline” held at the Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Jamnagar. He received the award from Peter Abraham, Head Engineering and Maintenance, for RIL DTA and SEZ. 9 IOB honours ‘Eminent Citizens’ Indian Overseas Bank honoured N Sankar with an ‘Eminent Citizen’ award for his ‘valuable contribution to society’. The award was presented to him on the occasion of IOB’s 78th Foundation Day Celebrations on 10 RECOGNITION February 2014 at Chennai. N Sankar receiving the award from IOB CMD M Narendra. (From R to l): Atul Agarwal and ADM Chavali, EDs, IOB, M Narendra, CMD, IOB, RS Munirathinam, Nalli Kuppusami Chetti (Art & Culture), G Narayanaswamy (Chartered Accountant), R Veeramani (Exporter), N Sankar (Industrialist), Sudha Raghunathan (Music), P Murari (Senior Citizen) and K Satyanarayana (Young Achiever). 10 EXHIBIT Cabot and Sanmar in ‘Paint India’ show Cabot Sanmar participated in the Cabot Sanmar supplies fumed silica entire portfolio of products for the Paint India Exhibition held at NSE, to major players in this segment. paint industry including fumed silica Goregaon, Mumbai, during 6-8, Visitors and exhibitors included and speciality carbon blacks. Close to March, 2014. The show is a premier paint/adhesive/ink manufacturers, 100 visitors including both existing event for professionals associated rawmaterial suppliers and equipment and potential customers visited the with the paints, adhesives and ink suppliers. The show was well attended booth. Sales and technical service industries. by visitors from across the globe and teams were present to showcase the from all parts of India. JV's range of products supplied to (L ro r): Mahesh Pawar, Sriram Srinivasan the client industries. and Manali Waichal of Cabot India and Cabot Sanmar and our JV partner Dr Krishnakumar Rangachari, Prosenjit Cabot Corporation showcased the Chaudhri and S Venkat Raghavan of Cabot Sanmar at the ‘Paint India’ show. 11 New Polymer Reactor and Paste PVC Drier dedicated at Chemplast, Mettur FACILITY Additional polymer reactors and a paste drier, at a cost of Rs 750 million, were dedicated by Vijay Sankar on 1 March 2014 making Chemplast Mettur a complete paste PVC making facility with a capacity to produce 66000 TPA and flexibility to switch to suspension grades as well. Chemplast Sanmar has achieved the unique distinction of producing commodity PVC at one location - Cuddalore - and speciality PVC grades at another location - Mettur - to its capacity production level. 12 FACILITY ‘GASPAC’ Quick Repair Centre commissioned at Flowserve Sanmar, Karapakkam A ‘Gas seal – Quick repair centre’ has The Flowserve Sanmar quick With this QRC facility, Flowserve been functioning at the Flowserve repair centre will provide facilities Sanmar can meet customer demand Sanmar premises, Karapakkam, from for disassembly and inspection of at lower lead times. November 2013. seals, cleaning of seals, replacement Commissioned with support from of damaged parts, assembly of seals Sanmar’s joint venture partner and static and dynamic test runs Flowserve Germany, the facility is on the Gaspac tester. housed in an area of 1750 sq ft, complete with assembly, viewers’ room, inventory storage, and compressor and chiller rooms – all in an air-conditioned and pollution free environment.