Every year, the projected growth of potential for Rubber products and sealing solutions for vast market like India is quite encouraging. Any industrial or commercial equipment, depending on its function, the rubber part plays a crucial role or in other words the core of the equipment. As the rubber products are selected and manufactured on the function and performance basis, it has become highly imperative for the OEM’s to procure the best fit with exceptional quality and performance. The manufacturers across the world are finding it lucrative to find India as the next platform to produce equipment and machinery for global requirements.
“KPM is distinguished for the profound knowledge behind the chemistry of cross linking, backed up by the integration of updated technology and automation. Whenever the latest technology is being introduced in the technical arena, immediately KPM adopts into our factory. As much as it is an important investment to make, the benefits include us, being technically sound and adopting a customer oriented approach as well. We believe in providing the best in class quality at Indian price, but finding the right market is the major challenge for our sector. Also, the low-cost countries have provided parts with low cost and quality but high productivity especially mass production”, states Muthukhumaren, Founder, KPM Plasto Rubber.
The company was established in the year 1999 with the objective to manufacture international quality rubber sealing products. Within a short
span, the company which specializes in custom moulded parts that require close tolerances and complexity in design came to be recognized as one of the successful leaders in the field.
Factors Driving Excellence
Without a blink, the company’s customers would assure their quality. It has a trusted name in the industry as it is consistently committed to offer best solutions at utmost quality. KPM stands ahead of the technology and its facilities with a sole purpose of providing the best quality. KPM not only adheres to the standards and requirements of the customer but ensures to serve beyond the expectations. The company neither compromises on product quality nor encourages purchasing the raw materials from inconsistent suppliers across the globe. The non-technical factor that sets us apart from the rest is the trust in terms of confidentiality, assured quality and the relationship. Over the years, not only have their facilities and product range grew exponentially, the customer’s trust had its massive growth as they entered international markets. When quality and trust played their part well, the customers were likely to lead among their competition. KPM’s policy is injected with the ethics, code of conduct and customer relationship.
KPM Plasto Rubber is one of the few companies, having the most advanced technological set-up for rubber products. The company has a state of the art manufacturing unit, fully equipped with world-class machinery and an in-house testing centre with highly modernized testing machines to test rubber from compounding to finished products. The plant is well equipped to manufacture any types of rubber part in any intricate form. Today, KPM products are being used for a wide range of applications in various industries.
“Being a custom rubber part manufacturer, our latest moulding machines were imported and designed with about 30+ unique techniques from the supplier to ensure the process parameters for critical part manufacturing and other considerations are meticulously taken care of. Our everyday moulding process is accompanied with small innovative techniques and poke yoke system enabling the operators to be more efficient and safer”, says the Founder.
Goals For The Future
The company’s quality management system ISO 9001:2015 is maintained to ensure superior product performance, traceability and process repeatability. Entering into the world of potable water, KPM has now built its empire on NSF 61 certified products providing safe water for the world. KPM can provide the parts certifying ASTM, JIS, BIS, DIN, REACH, RoHS etc. The management commitment to superior quality has enabled them to reach beyond national borders, the proof of which is the fact that more than 65 percent of the products exported globally.
The Founder concludes, “A corporate goal is to reduce wastage and develop our society into a greener environment. KPM is targeting to cross 150 crore mark in the next five years. Bringing about major transformations in this domain, our business plan has been designed to introduce about 1000 different articles in the next five years. Overall, we expect to be the most trusted OEM supplier globally.”