Gujarat Petrosynthese (GPL), Polymer Blends & Alloys Division is an ISO 9001- 2000 certified company engaged in manufacturing Polymer Blends & Alloys, Specialty grade compounds with Engineering Plastics to meet demanding needs for specific applications. It was incorporated on September 19, 1977 as a private limited company and converted into a public limited company on September 13, 1981.
GPL successfully commissioned India's first polybutene unit in 1984. Since then, it
Gujarat Petrosynthese (GPL), Polymer Blends & Alloys Division is an ISO 9001- 2000 certified company engaged in manufacturing Polymer Blends & Alloys, Specialty grade compounds with Engineering Plastics to meet demanding needs for specific applications. It was incorporated on September 19, 1977 as a private limited company and converted into a public limited company on September 13, 1981.
GPL successfully commissioned India's first polybutene unit in 1984. Since then, it has successfully marketed polybutenes under the PETROVIS brand name within the country and abroad. Under an agreement signed in 1997, PETROVIS polybutenes are now manufactured under toll conversion for Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited (IPCL), one of India's premier petrochemicals company. Through this agreement, customers have the advantage of better access to PETROVIS through IPCL's vast distribution network within India and overseas.
The polymer division is set up in joint sector by Gujarat Petrosynthese (GPL),Vadodara,a pioneer & profit making manufacturer of Polybutenes, and Karnataka State Industrial Investment & Development Corporation. The company has technical collaboration with China National Chemical Construction Corporation (CNCCC) who has also made an equity contribution. It is one of the first joint ventures between India and China. The company has four Twin Screw Co rotating Extrusion lines complete with allied equipments. A full fledged testing laboratory has also been set-up with injection molding machine, universal testing machine, melt flow indexer, Microprocessor controlled multistation HDT/VST apparatus, Sophisticated Computerized color matching capabilities of latest state of the art, imported spectrophotometer and formulation software etc. The company has also installed a D.G.Set for captive power generation.
The project was commissioned as Karnataka Petrosynthese Limited at the end of November 1996 by Chinese collaborators and commercial production started from December 1996. Plant Engineers have been trained extensively in the collaborators unit in China. The company has merged with Gujarat Petrosynthese Limited and became its Polymer Blends & Alloy Division w.e.f 1.4.2001.
The company is capable of providing a wide variety of products manufactured to suit customer requirements. Present product mix includes Modified Polycarbonate, Modified PVC, Modified Polyacetals, Modified ABS , modified PBT , modified polyamide , modified PP etc. Major markets for these products encompass automobile, textile, electrical & electronic, telecommunication, consumer goods and light industry. The company welcomes enquiries from customers requiring products, which are tailor made to suit their individual requirements.
Product range of the company includes:
- Synolac (ABS)
- Synofin (PP)
- Blends & Alloys
- Synonate(PC/ABS)
- Synonate (PC)
- Synolac (PVC)
- Synofin (PC/PO)
- Synolate(PC/PBT)
- Synol(POM)
- Synsan(SAN)
- Synlon (Nylon6 & Nylon66)
Achievements/ recognition:
An ISO 9001- 2000 certified company
