20 Microns Limited

Upcoming Exhibition

For more than 40 years, K Trade Fair for Plastics & Rubber has been and still is the biggest international trade fair for plastics and rubber, and takes place once every three years. The leading raw material producers, processing companies and machinery manufacturers offer an overview of the latest technical developments, procedures and techniques, of current construction methods and future trends.

PAINTINDIA 2010

We will be partaking in the PAINTINDIA 2010 series of exhibitions, which is a prime forum for buyer-seller interaction between manufacturers, distributors and customers from across India and the globe within the coatings industry, leading to extremely satisfactory levels of direct business and generation of leads.

Testing Facilities

Business markets and consumer demands are extremely dynamic in nature. Serving these ever-changing and demanding requirements necessitates constant innovation and technological developments.

20 Microns has a centralized research and development centre located at Vadadla, Vadodara (Gujarat). A talented team under the supervision of more than 20 scientists leads the research and development activities. Extensive research experimentation is carried out pertaining to the minerals and their applications in diverse fields. The centre is dedicated to undertake long-term research programs, deliver timely analytical reports and lay the foundation of all prospective developments.

Since inception, this R&D center has itself developed technologies that have led to establishment of several plants. Without the aid of any external agency, the R&D center has set up China clay wet processing plant, Dry grinding plants for Calcite, Dolomite & Talc, Calcination plant and many others. The Company has also started a new division namely SMC (Speciality Minerals & Chemicals) that covers manufacturing all speciality products like Amorsil, Diasilite, Reinforsil-CTD, Hydrogel-70T and many others.

20 Microns is a customer-oriented company striving to meet the categorical requirements. To attain this objective, the R&D Center is equipped with a ‘Product Application Center’ that is determined on developing the materials as per customer requirements.

The R&D center has also collaborated with several external agencies like Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute (Kolkata), SICART (Vallabh Vidyanagar – Gujarat); IIT - Mumbai, Smart Instruments Company Pvt. Ltd. (Mumbai), etc. for testing of the samples for specific tests like Scanning Electron Microscopic study, XRD analysis, Surface Area Measurement and other experimentations.

The R&D center has formulated various innovative as well as value-added synthetic products like Megasil, Hydrogel, Precipitated Barium Sulphate, White Pigment Opacifiers, Waxes, Polaid PVC, Polaid OP-MB, Optigloss & Glazex-90. Several other products like ATH, Mag Hydroxide, Organoclay, Matting Agents are in the final stages of development

News

20 Microns: Corporate Announcement
02/03/2010

Published on 03 February 2010

20 Microns Ltd has informed BSE that 20 Microns Nano Minerals Ltd. has become a subsidiary of the Company by virtue of allotment of 35,00,000 Equity Shares of Rs. 10 each (constituting 98.6% of the total paid up capital of the said Company) to the Company. HIGHLIGHTS OF INCREASING TRENDS
01/30/2010

20 Microns Limited Results, Q3 - F Y ’2009-10: For the quarter ended December 31, 2009, Net Profit has increased to Rs.112.27 Lacs from Rs. (48.96) Lacs, Sales & Operating Income has risen to Rs. 4308.69 Lacs from Rs. 2981.13 Lacs, Profit before depreciation, interest and tax (PBDIT) has increased by 59.38% i.e. Rs. 461.29 Lacs from Rs. 289.41 Lacs and Profit before tax (PBT) has increased to Rs. 124.14 Lacs from Rs. (67.13) Lacs, as compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year.

Team

Mr. Chandresh S. Parikh

Chairman & Managing Director

Mr. Sudhir R. Parikh

Mr. Munish Mohan

IDBI Nominee Director

Mr. Vithaldas D. Talati

Independent Director

Mr. Ram Devidayal

Independent Director

Mr. Rajesh C. Parikh

Managing Director

Mr. Atil C. Parikh

Joint Managing Director

Mr. Mihir Joshi

GVFL Nominee Director

Mr. Pravinchandra M. Shah

Independent Director

Mr. Atul H. Patel

Independent Director

20 Microns laboratory is well equipped with the most advanced quality control instruments to produce minerals of highest standard of quality and consistency. The technique used for measurement of various important properties involves a series of procedures.The system are divided into main areas-daily production dispatch sample analysis, inspection of stock and data monitoring. 20 Microns R & D and Quality control Laboratory have some of the most well trained and experienced Chemists, Geologists and Engineers to study the needs of customers, undertake continuous product upgradation and improvement and maintain consistency in quality.

Manual Sorting to recover maximum white ore.

Analysis of Chemical Properties - before dispatch to work.

Partical Size Analysis.

Test for physical properties like Bulk Density, Oil Absorption, Brightness etc.

Testing of Hydrophobicity, Oil Absorption and Uniformity of Coating.

Each supply carries a Quality Test Certificate certifying values within specifications.

XRD & Electron Microscope-Analysis.

An iso 9001:2000 certifed company.