«Revada Plastic» recently organized a visit by key customers to the RIPA production site in Dahage, India, one of the leading partners in the supply of stabilizers and additives for PVC.
Representatives of major Russian manufacturers of profiles and other PVC products took part in the trip. The format of such visits is becoming a regular practice for Revada Plastic: we invite customers to visit the production facilities of our leading partners together so that they can personally communicate with technical specialists, see the production from the inside, discuss the development of the product line and ask practical questions from the workshop.
How was the visit of Revada Plastic’s customers to the RIPA plant and research center
On the site RIPA the guests focused on the organization of production and the quality control system. The plant demonstrated neat, well-organized workshops, well-structured flows of raw materials and finished products, and a well-thought-out control system for incoming components and outgoing products. In terms of management style and production culture, the site is noticeably closer to the European approach: production stages and procedures are modeled after European enterprises and are carried out according to fixed protocols. Special attention is paid to quality control and reproducibility of results, which ensures stable customer service and predictable properties of finished products.
Modern production, strong R&D team and practical benefits for Russian PVC processors
The RIPA Research Center in Mumbai was visited separately. It is there that new products and special solutions are developed for individual customer requests. The R&D Center employs a highly qualified team of technical specialists, including several candidates of sciences. The team has a deep understanding and long-term experience in PVC processing, formed over decades of work as part of an international concern, one of the leaders in the production of additives for PVC. Thanks to this, the RIPA R&D team has competencies that are significantly ahead of most manufacturers outside Europe in terms of depth and consistency, whose products are now available to Russian processors.
The laboratories of the research center are equipped with a full set of modern equipment that allows both to develop formulations and to evaluate the properties of finished PVC profiles; in fact, this duplicates the equipment of the Reagens research center in Bologna (Italy). Next year, it is planned to move to a new, more spacious building, which will allow the installation of a number of new high-tech devices. We are sure that our guests on future trips will be pleasantly surprised by the level of equipment at the RIPA research center.
The joint trip allowed our clients to see how the work of the Revada Plastic partner is organized on site: from the control of incoming raw materials to the shipment of stabilizers, from laboratory tests to testing of customer product samples. For us, this is an important step in the development of long-term cooperation: direct dialogue between customers and RIPA technologists helps us to better select solutions for specific tasks and confidently plan the development of an optimal product line for years to come.
