Pudumjee Agro Industries Limited

About Us

Pudumjee Pulp & Paper Mills Limited (PUDUMJEE), a Pune (Maharashtra, India) based company engaged in the manufacture and sale of Specialty Papers is a flagship company of the M.P.Jatia Group of Companies.

Beginning with manufacture of India''s first indigenous Greaseproof and Glassine papers for packaging for the first time in India, PUDUMJEE went on to extend range of papers to include Security Papers such as MICR Paper, Sensitized Paper, Postal Stamp, Impressed Stamp, Passport and Excise Banderoll, Laminating Base, Silicone base paper, Wax Match paper, Packaging Papers of various kinds and types, Tissue Papers etc. catering to wide range of industrial applications specially manufactured to meet customers specific requirements.

The Company which has its plant and registered office at Thergaon, Pune(India) is managed by Board of Directors comprising eminent personalities from various fields and discipline headed by Mr.M.P. Jatia. The company`s equity shares are listed at Pune, Mumbai and National Stock Exchanges.

Mr. M.P. Jatia

Chairman & Managing Director and has an overall experience of over 51 years in business and corporate finance and is a Director of:

·  Wires & Fabrics (S.A.) Ltd.

·  Apollo Hospital Mumbai Ltd.

·  Rajendra Mechanical Industries Ltd.

·  Simplex Reality Ltd.

and many other Companies.

Mr. V. P. Leekha

Director-Technical is a B.E. (Mech.) and has a wide and varied experience of over 44 years in Paper Mills.

Mr. V.O. Somani

He is an industrialist and has a long and varied experience of over 46 years especially in the field of business administration and finance.

Mr. O.P. Gupta

He has a long and varied experience in the Banking industry. He is the Ex-chairman of Punjab National Bank.

Mr. Rusi N. Sethna

He is an eminent solicitor with a wide and varied experience especially in the field of Corporate Law.

Mr. A.K. Jatia

B.S. (Financial & Business Administration) with over 22 years experience in business, finance and international trade.

Mr. S.K. Bansal

Director-Finance and Administration and Company Secretary is a Bachelor of Commerce, a Chartered Accountant and an Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He has over 24 years of experience in Finance and Business Administration.

Mr.B.C.DALAL

Bachelor of Commerce & Bachelor of Law and comes from a reputed business family and has over 45 years of experience in Business. He is an advocate by profession and has been a regular speaker at Staff Training College of Reserve Bank of India and other Banks, as well as IIM Ahmedabad and Administrative Staff College of Hyderabad.

·  PUDUMJEE was the first Mill in India to make Greaseproof and Glassine, starting in 1968.

·  In 1972 PUDUMJEE pioneered for the first time in the country, manufacture of chemical pulp from agricultural residues such as straws and bagasse to be used for making Specialty Papers.

·  In 1972 PUDUMJEE became the first Mill in the country to install a full scale activated sludge system for treatment of its wastewater.

·  PUDUMJEE has also been the first Mill in the country to technologically upgrade its operations by installing microprocessor-based controls in various process applications.

·  In 1982 PUDUMJEE pioneered the anaerobic digestion process for treatment of wastewater by installation of a plant, which is one of the first few in the world and the first one in India in the Pulp and Paper Industry.

·  In recognition of the work done on treatment of wastewater, the Company had been selected as a model unit by the United Nations Environment Programme for dissemination of information about the Mill throughout South East Asia to Governments and Pollution Boards as a guide.

·  In 1972 PUDUMJEE after considerable research and development evolved and patented a technology for cleaner manufacture of pulp from sugarcane residue, which is its main raw material.

·  In late 1990`s PUDUMJEE carried out an expansion-cum-modernization programme at a cost of about Rs.900 million to set up a Tissue Paper Making Machine, Captive Power Plant, De-inking Pulping Plant and upgradation of effluent treatment system.

·  In 1966 & 1993 the Company had made Public Issues of equity shares, which are currently listed at Pune, Mumbai and National Stock Exchanges.

· In 2004-05, the Company has undertaken a programme to modernize one of the papermaking machines at an aggregate cost of Rs 2650 lacs to increase the production capacity by about 3000 MT per annum.