Business Of Longevity

Ms Unnikrishnan, Md & Ceo, Thermax, Has Fostered Innovation Within The Company, And Made Its Engineered Products & Services World-class.

- Jayashree Kini Mendes

YOU MAY NOT SEE IT OR REALISE IT, BUT

Thermax is everywhere. It’s in the air you breathe, the power you consume, the fuel you use, name it, and you can be assured that somewhere Thermax has played a role. In short, its visible products offer numerous invisible benefits.

The heavy engineering company whose core areas are energy and environment has made its mandate to offer clean energy while doing so in the most sustainable way. That is a matter of pride for Thermax’s longest-serving MD & CEO, MS Unnikrishnan.

Of course, he also takes pride in the company’s ability to have engineered some of the most marvellous innovations that boils down to simple and reasonable mechanical engineering. “But that is the beauty of working with Thermax. Engineering as a profession requires one to invent and innovate continuously, where our company and our line of work offers us plenty of opportunities,” he adds.

Thermax has multiple products across its three divisions: Energy, Environment, and Chemicals. For instance, in energy alone, the range includes absorption cooling, process cooling, boilers & heaters, power generation solutions, solar technology, process heating solutions, and steam accessories, and within each has several offerings. Ask him how he straddles the gamut of products and solutions, and Unnikrishnan says, “We are well structured as an organisation. Multiple portfolios of similar nature are managed by an SBU (strategic business unit), who is backed by a financial controller. Between the SBU head and the financial controller, they take all decisions related to the business other than selling it or buying a new business.”