RAJOO ENGINEERS FORGES AHEAD; TECHNICAL COLLABORATION WITH HOSOKAWA ALPINE AG, GERMANY

The markets in India and parts of Africa, would benefit immensely with this collaboration. It would bring the very best in blown film technology of HOSOKAWA ALPINE through one of the most trusted and respected names in the business – Rajoo Engineers.

The maxim ‘Excellence in Extrusion’ continues to drive Rajoo Engineers and thus the technical collaboration with HOSOKAWA ALPINE AG of Germany – one of the most reputed companies globally in this sector – comes as no surprise.

Both companies are long-established manufacturers of blown film lines. The HOSOKAWA ALPINE lines are used around the world by customers with high quality and performance demands. The RAJOO systems cover the demands in many newly industrialised countries such as India, Africa, Gulf and parts of Latin America and have their main focus on an attractive price-performance ratio for the customers.

The markets in India and parts of Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania), would benefit immensely with this collaboration. It would bring the very best in blown film technology of HOSOKAWA ALPINE through one of the most trusted and respected names in the business – Rajoo Engineers at affordable price levels.

In a first step, Rajoo Engineers Ltd. will assume responsibility for marketing and service support for Alpine’s blown film systems in India as well as in Nigeria , Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania. Both companies plan to jointly develop a new product line of blown film systems. It is planned to combine the time proven machine components of both manufacturers to form new hybrid systems on a higher quality level and at a simultaneously attractive price levels.

In future, this joint venture will be extended to include co-operation in the areas of service support, development, production, joint procurement and sales and marketing.

‘Rajoo’s strong understanding of the developing economies coupled with world class technology of Alpine will ensure a unique mix that customers would benefit from, says Sunil Jain, President, Rajoo Engineers. ‘The brand and the network of Rajoo will only raise the bar of customer satisfaction’, he adds. This alliance with ALPINE would only further the focused efforts of Rajoo in blown film lines, an area where the company enjoys premium market position.

‘Synergies will result from this cooperation in the areas of international marketing, production and procurement as well as in joint product development. For Alpine, this collaboration would also serve as an extension of its manufacturing capability, wherein it could now source from India, aggressively priced blown film solutions (using its technology and manufactured by Rajoo Engineers), for its global markets.’, says Peter Krieg, President, Hosokawa Alpine AG.

The existing Rajoo portfolio of the widest range of mono and multilayer blown film lines up to seven layers, sheet lines up to five layers, water quenched downward extrusion lines up to three layers, lines for foamed film and sheets for various special applications and thermoformers will now be supplemented by hybrid products as well as complete ALPINE systems, giving the customer enough options to choose from.


About Rajoo
Based in Rajkot, Rajoo Engineers Limited, having made a modest beginning in 1986, has today emerged as an undisputed global player in blown film and sheet extrusion lines. Owing to its focused efforts in blown film and sheet extrusion lines, the Company enjoys premium market position in this segment. Being a technology driven Company, product innovations, world-class quality, state-of-the-art workmanship, increased energy efficiency and high levels of sophistication and automation have become the hallmark of Rajoo products during all these years, positioning the Company's products on a global platform, competing with the established world leaders. With representations in many countries of the world and customers in over 40 countries, the Company's exports have multiplied after its debut in the international market in 1990. (www.rajoo.com)
   
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RAJOO ENGINEERS JV WITH BAUSANO OF ITALY; PLASTIC PIPE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN INDIA TO GET A FILLIP

Known for bringing world class technology at the door step of the Indian processors, with this JV (based in Rajkot), Rajoo Engineers will now revolutionise pipe manufacturing technology in India.

The spirit of ‘Innovation’ continues to charter the Rajoo Engineers growth story – a diversification into the pipe and profile extrusion machinery – through a joint venture with Bausano & Figli S.p.a of Italy, one of the most reputed companies globally in this sector.
This is probably what the Indian pipe manufacturing industry has been waiting for. With lack of availability of modern equipment / technology for PVC pipe production, companies were compelled to make do with decades old technologies. This industry will now witness a major boost with this JV christened – Rajoo Bausano Extrusion Pvt. Ltd. which is a fine blend of the expansive infrastructure of Rajoo and technology of Bausano. Availability of indigenous raw material and now access to the latest in technology in India (through this JV), usher good times for the large and growing market of PVC pipe manufacturing in India to boost the developments in agriculture and infra-structure sectors .

Bausano & Figli S.p.a started manufacturing twin screw extruders way back in 1946 and is today one of the most reputed pipe and profile extrusion machinery manufacturers in the world. Known for bringing world class technology at the door step of the Indian processors, with this JV (based in Rajkot), Rajoo and Bausano will now revolutionise pipe manufacturing technology in India. This pioneering initiative of Rajoo would surely have followers, all of which would work towards the benefit of the industry at large.

The Indian processors who currently use short extruders (18-20 L/D) will now be offered Rajoo-Bausano 30 L/D extruders to enhance melt homogenisation at much higher output levels using similar size extruder and motor ratings. The rough inner pipe surface, a result of the sizing done using the ‘floating bung technique’, will also be a thing of the past with ‘vacuum sizing’ technique (resulting in lower energy consumption for the farmers while transporting water) that is used by Rajoo-Bausano. The patented high torque ‘Multi-Drive’ system with four synchronised motors driving the Rajoo-Bausano extruder with much smaller motors, consume less power with lower maintenance costs.

With operations scheduled to commence in 2011, Rajoo Bausano Extrusion Pvt. Ltd. will produce and market pipe and profile lines (including for wood composite profiles) in India and various parts of Africa, Gulf and SAARC region.

The existing Rajoo portfolio of the widest range of mono and multilayer blown film lines up to seven layers, sheet lines up to five layers, water quenched downward extrusion lines up to three layers, lines for foamed film and sheets for various special applications and thermoformers will now be supplemented by pipe and profile extrusion lines .


About Rajoo
Based in Rajkot, Rajoo Engineers Limited, having made a modest beginning in 1986, has today emerged as an undisputed global player in blown film and sheet extrusion lines. Owing to its focused efforts in blown film and sheet extrusion lines, the Company enjoys premium market position in this segment. Being a technology driven Company, product innovations, world-class quality, state-of-the-art workmanship, increased energy efficiency and high levels of sophistication and automation have become the hallmark of Rajoo products during all these years, positioning the Company's products on a global platform, competing with the established world leaders. With representations in many countries of the world and customers in over 50 countries, the Company's exports have multiplied after its debut in the international market in 1990. (www.rajoo.com)
   
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K-2010 TO WITNESS AN AMALGAMATED FRONT OF RAJOO AND WONDERPACK, ALTERING DYNAMICS OF THE THERMOFORMING INDUSTRY

The combined entity is second to none in India and one of the few globally renowned quality suppliers of ‘end-to-end thermoforming solutions’ - a synergistic approach that will go a long way in enhancing value for customers and company alike.

It just gets bigger and better! The merged entity of Rajoo Engineers (Excellence in Extrusion) and Wonderpack Industries Pvt. Ltd (The thermoforming people) is leveraging respective strengths that now results in offering, perhaps the most efficient thermoforming solutions backed by a proven support network. Being second to none in India and one of the few globally renowned quality suppliers of ‘end-to-end thermoforming solutions’; this synergistic approach will go a long way in enhancing value for the customers and the company alike.

‘K’ is around the corner, the excitement is palpable – the anticipation of a plethora of launches is evident. As always, for Rajoo, ‘K Fair’ is a platform that has been well utilised to showcase its technology, innovation, range and experience. Now with Wonderpack, the anticipation has only doubled.

‘A lot has changed since the last K Fair. The world emerged from a global recession - a phase which challenged the business of both, Rajoo and Wonderpack. The companies emerged with flying colours and posted a very significant increase is sales’, says Sunil Jain, President, Rajoo Engineers Ltd.
PET is one of the most environment-friendly plastic materials available currently. The increased usage of PET bottles has resulted in high availability of PET bottle flakes and is bound to grow. Challenges are a way of life at Rajoo, and the company took on the mantel to dispel myths relating to high investments warranted in sheet extrusion lines for producing PET sheet from bottle flakes.
Visitors to the Rajoo booth (Stand 15 D/58) would see a running sheetline (not a common sight at ‘K’!) and witness a state-of-the-art solution to produce 300 kg/hour of 700 mm wide three layer (ABA) crystal clear PET sheet in the thickness range of 0.2 – 1 mm. The line would be complete with crystalliser and dehumidifier, continuous automatic screen changer, hydraulically slid upper and lower polishing rollers with fine gap adjustment and Siemens integrated touch screen based computerised extrusion process control. The Lamina RS1X 1490-50 / 900 rPET – K comes with the lowest investment cost per tonne of installed capacity empowering customers with a model that would offer the best payback and that too with 100% cheap PET bottle flakes as the input.

The Wonderpack booth (Stand 03/G – 74) will showcase one of its kind, four-axis servo controlled form and cut-in-place thermoformer designed at a never-before speeds of 60 strokes per minute.

About Rajoo
Based in Rajkot, Rajoo Engineers Limited, having made a modest beginning in 1986, has today emerged as an undisputed global player in blown film and sheet extrusion lines. Owing to its focused efforts in blown film and sheet extrusion lines, the Company enjoys premium market position in this segment. Being a technology driven Company, product innovations, world-class quality, state-of-the-art workmanship, increased energy efficiency and high levels of sophistication and automation have become the hallmark of Rajoo products during all these years, positioning the Company's products on a global platform, competing with the established world leaders. With representations in many countries of the world and customers in over 40 countries, the Company's exports have multiplied after its debut in the international market in 1990. (www.rajoo.com)



   
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RAJOO AND WONDERPACK ALIGN: A UNIFIED APPROACH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THERMOFORMING INDUSTRY

For Rajoo Engineers Ltd. (Excellence in Extrusion) and Wonderpack Industries Pvt. Ltd (The Thermoforming People), this endeavor highlights the common mindset and approach of both companies, which is to be recognized as a quality global supplier for the thermoforming industry. The companies now come together with a new approach to serve the sheet extrusion and thermoforming industry, worldwide. The merged entity will now truly qualify to provide ‘end-to-end solutions in thermoforming’. Extrusion has always been the forte of Rajoo while thermoforming has been the core strength of Wonderpack.

Rajoo Engineers needs no introduction in the world markets and is well established as a quality manufacturer of plastic extrusion machines - mono and multilayer blown film lines ( upward and downward), mono and multilayer sheet extrusion lines, thermoformers and FPS ( foamed polystyrene) lines for disposables containers . The company continues to endeavor to further its current reach that is spread across 40 countries and to be considered as the most trusted provider of solutions for the plastic extrusion industry worldwide.

Wonderpack Industries was founded in 1985 with a focus on the development and manufacture of thermoforming machines for thin & thick wall applications, plastic packaging and compact sheet line extrusion machinery with customers in over in 40 countries under the trade name of – Wonderpack.

With a vision for steep growth and well-understanding the dynamics of the markets, this collaborative move promises to provide significant value propositions for all concerned. There would be significant benefit when the merged entity will take advantage of each other’s technology, developments, service network and marketing strengths. In the revised setup, Wonderpack will operate as a separate division of Rajoo Engineers at Nasik under the leadership of Amit Shah, the founder and Managing Director of Wonderpack now joins the Board of Rajoo Engineers.

For the industry, there will now be a wider range to choose from. In addition to the Rajoo products, the portfolio of Wonderpack that would also be available through the combined entity includes:
• Sheet extrusion with in-line thermoforming
• Thermoforming with in-line cutting and stacking
• Automatic roll fed in-line trim–in place thermoforming
• Special purpose thick walled vacuum forming
• Continuous thermoforming for thick wall applications
• Automatic vacuum/blister making machines
• Shrink wrapping machines and systems
• Thermoform fill and seal machines




C. N. Doshi, Chairman, Rajoo Engineers says, Coming together of competitors is not a new phenomenon, the objective here is to synergise and enhance the technology levels. With Amit Shah joining the Board of our Company, we will now provide the industry a single point source for a wider range of world class sheet extrusion and thermoforming systems. The entrepreneurial skills and technology prowess of Mr. Shah coupled with decades of experience of Rajoo and its worldwide presence will surely help Rajoo grow leaps and bounds’.

Amit Shah, Founder and Managing Director, Wonderpack Industries adds, ‘The industry will benefit immensely from this collaboration. I look forward to taking this combined entity to newer orbits – both in terms of technology levels and footprint and I see very certainly, it will soon become a force to reckon with at the global level’.


Solutions from Rajoo and Wonderpack will continue to be available to the industry as before, albeit with more options. The selling, marketing and servicing networks of Rajoo and Wonderpack will now reinforce one another and come under one umbrella for unparalleled service levels witnessed by the industry.
The forthcoming K at Dusseldorf in October, 2010 will witness the synergistic developments of both, Rajoo and Wonderpack, now under one umbrella.

About Rajoo
Based in Rajkot, Rajoo Engineers Limited, having made a modest beginning in 1986, has today emerged as an undisputed global player in blown film and sheet extrusion lines. Owing to its focused efforts in blown film and sheet extrusion lines, the Company enjoys premium market position in this segment. Being a technology driven Company, product innovations, world-class quality, state-of-the-art workmanship, increased energy efficiency and high levels of sophistication and automation have become the hallmark of Rajoo products during all these years, positioning the Company's products on a global platform, competing with the established world leaders. With representations in many countries of the world and customers in over 40 countries, the Company's exports have multiplied after its debut in the international market in 1990. (www.rajoo.com)
   
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DISTINCTIVE DISTINCTION: RAJOO RAISES THE BAR OF WORKMANSHIP PERFORMANCE & QUALITY WITH ‘SHREE YANTRALAYA’

The state-of-the-art tooling zone, Shree Yantralaya would go a long way in ensuring consistently higher accuracy levels in all critical components.

For Rajoo, being considered as ‘innovators in extrusion’ was not enough; on 15th May, 2010 Rajoo redefined the threshold for workmanship, performance and quality by inaugurating its ultra modern tooling zone christened – ‘Shree Yantralaya’ ( meaning “abode for tools dedicated to the Lord” in Sanskrit) at its Rajkot campus.
This day would be dotted in the history of Rajoo Engineers as a landmark day when the company adopted the latest in world class
tooling and machining technology to provide its customers products compliant to the stringent global standards with increased levels of accuracy consistently.

Enhanced quality components produced in a controlled air conditioned and dust freeenvironment, with better workmanship, accuracy and quick turnaround are attributes that necessitated this significant investment in the conceptualisation of ‘Shree Yantralaya’ which is now the abode for machine tools such as:

• Feeler, Taiwan – 4 axis CNC Turning Centre
• Jyoti, India – CNC Turning Centre
• Huron France – Double Column Vertical Machining Centre
• Huron, France – Three Axis High Speed Milling Centre
• You Ji, Taiwan – CNC Vertical Turning Lathe
• Heckert – CNC Thread Milling Machine
• KMT, Jetline, Germany – 2 axis water jet cutting machine
• Smithson, India – Universal Cylindrical grinding machine
• Pinachio, Spain – 3 axis CNC smart turn lathe


These machine tools will employ precise machining technology to produce extremely high-quality components. Digitally designed complex component will be seamlessly transposed to these machine tools directly, eliminating the need for human intervention and related errors.
‘Shree Yantralaya’ presents an immaculate approach helping the company refine the scope of ‘Excellence in Extrusion’. Access to these latest machining technologies and techniques empowers the company to only further the customer satisfaction to greater heights.


Ninety percent of the hot parts and air ring components of the machines built by Rajoo will now be CNC machined resulting in higher repeat accuracy, quick turn around time and easy replaceability of components.

About Rajoo
Based in Rajkot, Rajoo Engineers Limited, having made a modest beginning in 1986, has today emerged as an undisputed global player in blown film and sheet extrusion lines. Owing to its focused efforts in blown film and sheet extrusion lines, the Company enjoys premium market position in this segment. Being a technology driven Company, product innovations, world-class quality, state-of-the-art workmanship, increased energy efficiency and high levels of sophistication and automation have become the hallmark of Rajoo products during all these years, positioning the Company's products on a global platform, competing with the established world leaders. With representations in many countries of the world and customers in over 40 countries, the Company's exports have multiplied after its debut in the international market in 1990. (www.rajoo.com)



   
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EPE, THE CLEAN GREEN FOAMED MATERIAL; UNIQUE SOLUTIONS FROM RAJOO ENGINEERS

In Rajoo, Nakoda found a suitable partner for their products with the FOMEX REPE-1490-115/2100 foamed PE Sheet line that was recently commissioned at the Salem facility.

Landmark sale by Rajoo, India’s first Tandem Extrusion Physically Foamed EPE (expanded polyethylene) Sheet Line commissioned at Mysore Poly Foams, Salem facility (Nakoda Group).

EPE is today considered a very versatile and unique product due to low polymer content and its usefulness is further enhanced by the quality extruder solutions by Rajoo. This state-of-the-art Tandem extrusion physically foamed EPE sheet line FOMEX REPE-1490-115 / 2100 that was commissioned incorporates advanced features such as high pressure gas injection pump, volumetric master batch dosing unit mounted on hopper block, melt pressure transducers, hydraulic continuous screen changer with micro processor based circular temperature controller units, static charge eliminators, automatic winders etc. – truly a technological marvel!The line consists of 90mm/38D/75 kW primary melting extruder with hopper loader and 115 mm/30 D/56 kW secondary cooling extruder and produces , sheet of maximum width 2000mm in thickness range of 1 to 6mm. The line speed varies from 10MPM to 80MPM with an , output of 200 Kg/Hr.

EPE today, witnesses a significant surge in its application in sectors such as packaging, automobile, construction, insulation, marine, sports and many more.

The Nakoda foray into physically foamed EPE sheet solutions is a result of its strong experience in the line of PS/PP sheet thermoforming. It realised the growing importance of EPE, its unique characteristics as lower density, operational convenience and overall clean and green product. In Rajoo, Nakoda has found a suitable partner for their products with the FOMEX REPE-1490-115 / 2100 that was recently commissioned at their Mysore Poly Foams, Salem facility. Technology of the machine, the Rajoo experience in extrusion, qualified support systems as well as the ability of machine to deliver quality product consistently, were attributes that were evaluated by Nakoda, when making this purchase. The other choice was to source it either from Far East with lower technology and support levels or from Europe at substantially higher investment levels, but they preferred Rajoo.

Gauthamchand Jain, founder of Nakoda Group added, ‘The quality of the product surpassed all our expectations. The plant has been giving satisfactory results from day one. Rajoo Engineers Limited (REL) has supported us in all aspects. I am very impressed by the work carried out by their service team who commissioned the line in a perfect manner. Their suggestions starting from raw material combinations, operating, maintenance etc. were very helpful.

Sunil Jain, President, Rajoo Engineers said, ‘With one of the most impressive manufacturing facility in the plastic disposable industry in India, the Nakoda group has been a valued customer to us since 2004’. The company uses Two Layer PS/PP Sheetline Lamina as well as Two Thermoforming Machines from Rajoo. The relationship has only grown over the years with the High Output Sheet Lamina, Three Thermoforming Dispocon and now the revolutionary, Tandem Extrusion Physically Foamed EPE Sheet line.

About Rajoo
Based in Rajkot, Rajoo Engineers Limited, having made a modest beginning in 1986, has today emerged as an undisputed global player in blown film and sheet extrusion lines. Owing to its focused efforts in blown film and sheet extrusion lines, the Company enjoys premium market position in this segment. Being a technology driven Company, product innovations, world-class quality, state-of-the-art workmanship, increased energy efficiency and high levels of sophistication and automation have become the hallmark of Rajoo products during all these years, positioning the Company's products on a global platform, competing with the established world leaders. With representations in many countries of the world and customers in over 50 countries, the Company's exports have multiplied after its debut in the international market in 1990. (www.rajoo.com)



   
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INDIAN MANUFACTURING GETS A FILLIP IN THE WORLD MARKET

Rajoo Engineers now commissions the 9th
5-Layer ‘Fully Loaded’ Blown Film Line, and redefines barriers for barrier films used in lamination and liquid packaging.

Innovations in technology have always been an area of comfort for Rajoo Engineers. The commissioning of the 9th 5-Layer Fully Loaded Blown Film Line at Polypet, Nagpur, by Rajoo would go down as one of the finest landmarks in the history of Indian manufacturing of extrusion machinery. The domain of five layer blown film lines with nylon and EVOH was until now dominated by European and Canadian manufacturers, would now-on witness new market dynamics.

Polypet, Nagpur performed a thorough evaluation of all options, including the Canadian and European manufacturers, before deciding that Rajoo was the best suitor - keeping in mind product, quality, service, satisfaction with earlier supplied plant by Rajoo and an overall handholding - aspects that add immense value to the buyer, giving him confidence. With this, Rajoo Engineers now redefines barriers for barrier films used in lamination and liquid packaging, in the domestic and global markets.

The five layer plant with 2 x 60 mm grooved feed extruders for the inner and outer layers and 3 x 55 mm smooth bore extruders is equipped with a 400 mm UCD® die ( stack type with horizontal melt flow paths) and IBC system. ‘To ensure precise and accurate blend and gsm control for each material, we have successfully integrated a 14 component integrated conveying, gravimetric blending and dosing system from Germany,’ says Sunil Jain, President, Rajoo Engineers. ‘Thickness profile, another critical parameter in blown film applications is also well controlled with the state-of-the-art Automatic Profile Control System,’ he adds.

The thickness is measured using two solid state high definition capacitive sensors with 0.1 micron resolution especially designed for nylon and EVOH that are mounted on a rigid O-frame scanner which in-turn is mounted after the nip rollers, when the film is substantially cooler. The film is wound on a back-to-back dual station load cell controlled surface winder with taper tension control producing 1 m diameter rolls.

The machine is operated through an integrated touch-screen based supervisory control system for all the machine parameters such as:
• Processing temperatures
• Extruder speeds
• Melt temperature and pressure
• IBC
• Calibrating basket diameter and height
• Oscillating haul-off speed
• Material recipes
• Historical data recall, etc.

The machine effortlessly produces 75 micron barrier film with 15 micron nylon and 1010 mm layflat width, providing an output of 240 kg/hour, thickness variation under ± 4% on 2 sigma and width variation of less than ±3 mm.

With this, Rajoo has again raised its bar of performance and continues launching such pioneering innovations. This commissioning has endorsed Rajoo’s leadership status in the industry. The confidence and the trust reposed by customers in Rajoo, its products and service backup is evident by the fact that Polypet who were also earlier operating a 3 layer blown film plant has ordered yet another 3 layer blown film plant scheduled to be supplied to them early next year.


   
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