ABOUT US
The Finolex Way
Once our customers install our pipes, they completely forget about us. We take great pride in this dependable quality that gives farmers, plumbers and home owners one less thing to worry about. This quality focus is not just restricted to our products, but defines every aspect of our functioning. Whether quality support for our dealers, vendors and suppliers. Quality opportunities to our employees. Superior quality of life, education and health of the people we serve through our various social responsibility initiatives.
Fundamentally Finolex
To stay focused on making superior quality pipes and fittings, and nothing else but that, for forty years, is no mean feat. Aligning every decision, every action, every resource towards delivering quality pipes and fittings. To choose to do just one thing, and do it well. So that our customers can continue to rely on the pipes they laid down years ago. Now, that’s Finolex.
Our focus is single-minded. When we choose to diversify, it’s upstream with an open sea jetty to manage our raw materials, and downstream into last mile fulfilment. When we evolve, it has to be in our understanding of customer expectations and finding better machines and processes to meet those expectations. When we choose to expand, it is into newer markets, delivering our pipes and fittings to newer customers. And when we measure our growth, it is in reputation. The effect of which reflects in our bottom line - growing manifold in the last decade.
Over the last forty years, we have steadily added depth to our company, instead of spreading ourselves wide and thin. Consistently delivering the exact same products that fulfil the exact same promise. Every time. That’s what makes us a strong brand, with a strong network, and even stronger goodwill. That’s what makes us Finolex.
Our founder
Shri Pralhad P Chhabria
our board
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Mr. Prakash P. ChhabriaExecutive Chairman -
Ms. Bhumika L. BatraIndependent Director -
Mrs. Ritu P. ChhabriaNon-Executive Non-Independent Director -
Mrs. Kanchan U. ChitaleIndependent Director -
Mr. Anil V. WhabiManaging Director -
Mr. Saurabh S. DhanorkarNon-Executive & Non-Independent Director -
Dr. Deepak R. ParikhIndependent Director -
Mr. Pradeep R. RathiIndependent Director -
Mr. Anami N. RoyIndependent Director -
Mr. Saumya ChakrabartiDirector (Technical)
Leadership
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MR. PRAKASH CHHABRIAEXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
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MR. ANIL V. WHABIMANAGING DIRECTOR
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MR. AJIT VENKATARAMANCHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
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MR. SAUMYA CHAKRABARTIDIRECTOR - TECHNICAL
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MRS. SARITA TRIPATHICHIEF HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER
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MR. MURALI RAJ G RCHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
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MR. PRADEEP VEDULAPRESIDENT - SALES & MARKETING
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MR. VISHWAS SHAHPRESIDENT - PROCUREMENT
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MR. PRASHANT JOSHIPRESIDENT – OPERATIONS ( PIPES DIVISION )
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MR. SHREEDATTA ALBURPRESIDENT - OPERATIONS (PVC DIVISION)
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MR. NIRAJ KEDIACHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
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MR. ASHUTOSH KULKARNICOMPANY SECRETARY and HEAD LEGAL
Our Manufacturing Ethos
Our quality towers tall because of the solid foundation our manufacturing operations offer. With ISO 9001:2015 certified plants – two in Maharashtra, in Ratnagiri and Urse; and a third in Masar, Gujarat. Every plant has been instrumental in helping us deliver quality and reliable products across the country. With every employee on the floor aligned to the bigger picture, holding themselves personally accountable for the output, and the reputation we enjoy out in the world.
Our flagship facility in Ratnagiri, spread over 650 acres, consists of an open sea cryogenic jetty and storage facility to receive raw materials, a PVC resin manufacturing facility in technical collaboration with Uhde GmbH, Germany, with Hoechst technology, and a PVC pipe manufacturing facility. In house resin manufacture ensures that all our pipe manufacturing facilities in all locations receive a dedicated supply of consistent and superior quality resin. But the thing that really drives our machines across all plants, is the ethos we share. Our common passion for quality.
A Network of Trust
We have over 900 dealers and 21,000 retail touchpoints across the country. Many of the people in this network have been with us for over 30 years, as members of our parivaar, our family. Over the decades, we have earned their trust, and they, ours, as families do. Their faith in us has, in turn, inspired their customers, many of whom swear by our products. Creating a beautifully interwoven tapestry of partnerships. An interconnected network of collaboration and trust, that is as enduring as the pipes and fittings we make.
our journey
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2021Celebrating 40 years of establishment of Finolex Industries and taking ahead the values inculcated by our founder Late Shri. Pralhad Chhabria.
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2020Stepped up CSR efforts during the Covid pandemic with donations of Ventilators, oxygen concentrators, medical equipment, PPE kits, ration kits and sanitizers.
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2019Installed capacity of pipes segment increased to 3,70,000 MT p.a.
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2013EPVC capacity increased from 10,000 MT to 20,000 MT p.a.
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2012FIL started a new manufacturing plant at Masar, near Vadodara in Gujarat.
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2009FIL started a brand new state-of-the-art unit for manufacturing agricultural pipes and casing pipes at Urse, Pune, with the capacity of 28,000 MT p.a.
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2008Taking a step further with advancement in technology, FIL introduced LEAD FREE Plumbing pipes as per ASTM Standards.
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2007FIL introduced Underground Sewerage Pipes as per IS: 15328 – 2003.
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2006Finolex Industries Ltd., proudly celebrated 25 years of its success and the PVC Resin capacity was expanded from 1,30,000 MT to 2,60,000 MT. Further expanding its product range, FIL added ASTM fittings to its product portfolio.
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2002PVC Pipes and PVC Resin plants at Ratnagiri were awarded the IS14001 certificate for Environment Management Systems
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1999FIL also started manufacturing PVC pipes at Ratnagiri to meet its growing demand and introduced ASTM Pipes to cater to the need of the Plumbing sector
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1996FIL became India’s first manufacturer of PVC pipes and fittings to be awarded the ISO 9001: 2000 certification.
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1994FIL set up a state-of-the-art PVC Resin plant near Ratnagiri on the West Coast of Maharashtra State. The 130,000 MT PVC plant was set up in technical collaboration with Uhde GmbH of Germany and under technology license from Hoechst AG. FIL manufactures suspension PVC as well as emulsion/paste PVC.
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1985FIL pioneered the concept of “Ringfit’ pressure pipes.
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1981Finolex Industries Limited (FIL) was incorporated and had a modest beginning as a rigid PVC (Poly Vinyl Chloride) pipes manufacturer with a manufacturing plant in Pune.