Intellectual Capital

Intellectual Capital

Intellectual Capital

Accelerating innovation to strengthen Competitive edge

Our expertise in complex chemistry in combination with our sophisticated R&D infrastructure enables us to bring to our customers advanced intermediates that support sustainability. We are also developing new technology platforms and driving digitalisation to gain efficiency in operations and improve customer satisfaction

36 +
patent applications filed cumulatively
0.40 %
R&D expenditure as a percentage of revenue in FY 2020-21
17.39 Cr
expenditure on R&D in FY 2020-21 (Rs 13.52 Crores in FY 2019-20)
70 +
R&D employee strength
13
PhDs

Robust R&D Infrastructure

Deepak Nitrite’s innovation infrastructure consists of a centralised research facility  at Nandesari, Gujarat. Recognised by the Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, Government of India, it is equipped with the latest instruments and equipment. A team of 70+ qualified and dedicated research scientists are driving innovation at the facility, enabling us to bring products and processes which are differentiated, economical and environment-friendly.

Deepak Nitrite’s innovation infrastructure consists of a centralised research facility at Nandesari, Gujarat. Recognised by the Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, Government of India, it is equipped with the latest instruments and equipment. A team of 70+ qualified and dedicated research scientists are driving innovation at the facility, enabling us to bring products and processes which are differentiated, economical and environment-friendly.

The R&D facility also houses a state-of-the-art pilot plant, a safety laboratory and an environment laboratory. The pilot facility facilitates seamless scale-up from R&D trials to commercial production. The process safety lab has been established to support safer and faster commercialisation of new products. The environment laboratory is driving utility reduction and value from waste, aligned with our focus on sustainable chemistry.

  • In FY 2020-21, we set-up a new digitally-enabled analytical / process engineering laboratory (mini-plant) aligned to our business requirements.

Enhancing R&D Competencies

Our R&D strength is manifested in our wide-ranging expertise. We have strong capabilities across process research, development, and engineering. Our analytical team has significant expertise in developing batch process as well as continuous mode process for chemicals. Our competencies in the areas of process intensification, reaction engineering, separation science, continuous mode unit operations including purifications further give us an edge in driving value added innovation.

We continue to focus on developing our core technology platforms that include nitration, reduction and diazotisation. Investments of around ` 300 Crores are being made into products that utilise our core platforms for new agrochemical and pharmaceutical intermediates. New technology platforms for oxidation, fluorination have also been established. These new technologies will support the business over the long-term in a sustainable manner. Significant focus is also being given towards developing safer and throughput efficient processes

Accelerating the Shift to Digitalisation

Digitalisation is redefining the chemical industry. At Deepak Nitrite, we are keeping pace with these developments by deploying disruptive digital tools. During the year, we exploited its potential in expediting product innovation. Digital tools were implemented in our stage-gate process of new product development. It is helping in better monitoring of the progress at each stage and evaluating large data to provide insights, thus making the product development process more efficient and effective. Further, a process simulation software was deployed to achieve first time right scale-up of new products.

We also took steps towards automation to drive operational efficiency. Electronic Lab Notebook software (ELN) was developed in-house for recording experimental data. This will facilitate faster data traceability and retrieval. Artificial intelligence and machine learning tools are enabling us to leverage the power of data science and gain valuable insights from our internal database. A robust roadmap has been developed for the implementation of proprietary data. For further advancing our digitalisation journey, we have identified IoT tools, the implementation of which is slated to happen in the current fiscal.

Strategic Focus Areas

As we move forward, our focus to enhance intellectual capital include the development of new platform technologies for strong technical support, introducing successful process intensification solutions that deliver savings and efficiencies, and continuous process development of new and existing molecules for strong product stewardship. We also aim to become a partner of choice for long-term contract manufacturing activities of multinational companies.
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