ABHISHEK JAIN, Executive Director, PPAP automotive ltd speaks to ET Polymers about the company’s past, present and future.
Please tell us about PPAP Automotive’s 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 a Japanese Company called 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 a joint venture company 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, and Ichimiya Group Company. The relationship started in 2007.
With tour technology partners, we continuously work together to enhance the capabilities of local operations and our endeavour is to provide continuously 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.
This story is from the October/November 2016 edition of ET Polymers.
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