Parson Adhesives India Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of Parson Adhesives Inc., USA, is based in Vadodara, and has set-up nation-wide distributors' network to cater to the Indian market. Bhushan M Anjaria, General Manager (Sales & Marketing), talks about the company and its India initiative. Excerpts...

What are the various types of adhesives products manufactured for Indian industry?

Adhesion is the adhering of similar or different types of materials to each other. Cohesion is the inner strength of a material, such as the adhesive in this case.

The adhesive interactions between an adhesive and a substrate not only concern the actual area of contact (adhesion zone) of the adhesive and substrate but also concern the state of the adhesive in the vicinity of the surface of the substrate (transition zone).

The following types adhesives are being manufactured in Indian industry: Anaerobic Adhesives, Cyanoacrylate Adhesives, Epoxy Adhesives, Acrylic Adhesives, Methyl Methacrylate Adhesives (MMA), Polyurethane Adhesives, UV Curable Adhesives, PVA Adhesives, Synthetics Adhesives, etc. These adhesives are used in general industries, automotive industries, electronics industries, and for domestic applications.

What is the USP of Parson Adhesives?

Parson Adhesives is one among few companies that has different types of high performance engineering and structural adhesive technologies under one umbrella: anaerobic, cyanoacrylate, acrylic and methacrylate, epoxy, polyurethane, UV curable adhesives, silicone and special polymer based sealants.

Is there any substitute for adhesives?

Adhesives are the substitute for conventional methods, i.e., thread locking, retaining, gasketing and thread sealing and bonding practices. But adhesives offer several benefits vis-?-vis conventional methods, like: increased product performance; increased design flexibility; increased product quality; enhanced product aesthetics; and improved process productivity and reduced manufacturing costs.

Hence, adhesive and sealants are considered the next generation design technology.

What are the comparative advantages?

Parson Adhesives always works very closely with every client demonstrating all advantages of products. And, major advantages passed-on to customers are: value benefits, cost benefits and price benefits.

Who are your major customers? This is a crowded market with lot of manufacturers.

We have customers from all industry segments. Major customers are from automotive OEM and ancillaries, wind energy manufacturers, railways and general industrial customers.

Parson Adhesives, having earned ISO certifications, always keeps its own standards very high and up-gradation of quality standards is first and foremost motive of our QA/QC as well R&D departments. Not only when new products are rolled-out, but also during manufacturing of each and every product, stringent quality checks are in place, right from selection and development of vendor, incoming raw materials to packaging materials, during all production stages till routine quality tests of final products.

Industry specifications are well studied and accordingly products are tested at in-house modern laboratory. Products are also being tested regularly and certified by independent laboratories meeting and superseding other specific industry standards and norms.

What are the company's achievements?

Parson Adhesives is a research oriented organisation and hence evolves varied adhesives technologies. The company originated at Evansville, Indiana, USA, where global manufacturing facility and central R&D are located; centralised Global Sales & Marketing office is situated at Rochester, USA. Research scientists are working tirelessly to bring-out newer products for challenging application emerging out in market which resolve many issues and make customers happy.

Whether the new product or modified and tailor-made product; consistent quality is a habit at Parson Adhesives. Offering and implementing consistent quality of products and services make our organisation grow fast and to reach out to every customer very effectively.

As a global MNC, the company has strongly established its brands in more than 48 countries, since past 3 decades. Besides ISO certification, the products are also certified by DVGW, NSF, WRAS, UL, GL, etc., (through various internationally recognised laboratories).

How is present business environment?

Adhesives and sealants market in India and worldwide is growing rapidly and newer applications are being explored day-to-day. Industries have realized that, there are many distinct advantages with the use of high performance engineering and structural adhesives and sealants, over traditional methods. Industries who have never used or realized merits of adhesives/sealants have started using such products to improve productivity, to have better and safe design and to add value to their end products.

Indian industries are now serving global markets. Also most multinationals are now in India have created their strategic manufacturing locations, too. To meet and compete in global market needs, Indian industries are now left with no choice but to adopt all modern technologies and global practices for products and services. We see a tremendous growth for high performance adhesives and sealants in each and every sector of Indian industries. We believe that demand for these products is on steep rise, as they replace contemporary methods of sealing and bonding.

What are the future plans?

Parson Adhesives has big plans for India. In the next couple of years we will have our own world class manufacturing facility. Presently, Parson Adhesives in India has begun partial processing, converting semi-finished products to finished products and re-packaging from bulk to smaller pack-sizes. Having drawn a road-map to spread in market, catering all types of applications; top management of Parson Adhesives India Private Ltd, is working on for devising various strategies to implement, very fast.

In the words of our Managing Director, Mr Bijay Nayak: "Our mission is to maintain, as a trusted solution provider to Industrial Assembly and Maintenance having strong relation with suppliers and employees without compromising the Quality, Safety and Environment with highest service to Industries"

Parson Adhesives India Private Limited, Vadodara. Tel: 0265-2972191, 6541638. Mobile: 094083-54185, 094285-11765. Email: sales@parsonadhesives.in