Jotun relocates powder mfg unit to Pune

Pune: Jotun India, a prominent paint manufacturing company, has announced that it would be shifting the entire powder division from the Union Territory of Daman to Pune in Maharashtra.

Two lines have been set up in the Pune facility and two more would be shifted out from Daman by August-end, Mr. Claes Jansson, Managing Director, Jotun India said.

The Daman facility has been in existence for the past four years. It manufactures around 10,000 tonnes of powder. The Pune facility is located at Ranjangaon and has been set up with an investment of $25 million.

The commercial production of paints from this facility began in June this year and has an installed capacity of 50 million litres in wet paint. The facility is spread over 61,000 sq m and has a built-up area of 18,000 sq. m.

He noted that the full capacity utilisation would happen in the next five years.

The group in India would cater to the industrial, marine and decorative segments.

He said it was also adding another 30 outlets in the South and West markets.

The company has 104 operational outlets, 14 are in the pipeline and the remaining would be ready by the end of the current calendar year.

The outlets are mainly in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Goa.