SRF Ltd, a leading industrial group, manufactures textiles, truck tarpaulins, cricket pitch cover, pond liners, inflatable fabrics. Started in 1974, the company has eight plants in India and abroad and is a market leader in nylon tyre cord fabric, belting fabrics, refrigerant gases and chloromethanes. The company's relentless pursuit of TQM (total quality management) techniques had fetched it the Deming Application Prize in 2004, the first nylon tyre cord company outside Japan to be awarded this honour.