Innovation, research and development is an important part of our Chemicals Business. This is embedded as part of our Aspirations 2030 – i.e. under Innovation & Technology Leadership. In line with our aspirations, the ingenious team of scientists and engineers across our R&D centres in Bhiwadi and Gurugram work tirelessly to ensure our R&D investments and programs are directed towards the requirements of the market and the customers.
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CTG at SRF is actively engaged in the development of new products and process technologies for the Specialty Chemicals and Fluorochemicals businesses. The Group’s key focus is the development of intermediates for new Active Ingredients (AI) in pharmaceuticals, agrochemical industries as well as new generation refrigerants. With a 400+ workforce, CTG serves as the catalyst in improving SRF’s capabilities of process development, scale-up, and commercialisation of new chemistries in our chosen areas of operation.
Our R&D team along with business development teams often collaborate with our customers for joint product and process development. These have proven to be successful models for customer-driven product development, further enhancing a spirit of collaboration and partnership between us and our customers.
To propel enterprise transformation, the Company has invested in cutting-edge and scalable digital platforms that emphasise process digitisation, digital workflows, analytics, automation, and cloud product suites. Consequently, strategic decision-making has been expedited, and the Company’s IT landscape is based on the latest technology.