Business & Money | Monday 9 March, 2015 8:03 am |

Visen Industries Ltd, the largest manufacturer of polymer emulsions for paints and coatings, textiles and adhesives in India will commence its commercial production from Hamriyah Free Zone from the first week of April.
Sheikh Khaled Bin Abdullah Bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Chairman of Department of Seaports & Customs, Hamriyah Free Zone Authority and Sharjah Airport International Free Zone, opened the new plant today (08-03-2015)
“Our plant in HFZA is our first one in the Middle East and we seek to meet the increasing demand of this growing market by taking advantage of the facilities provided by HFZA”, Vijay S. Nair, managing director of Visen Polymers FZE, told journalists after the opening ceremony.
“Visen Polymers FZE at HFZ has a capacity of 120,000 metric tons per annum and is the single largest polymer emulsion plant in the region,” he added.
The US$ 51 million (AED187 million) plant has a total land area of about 78,000 sq. meters. This state-of-the-art plant has DCS controlled systems with the latest manufacturing techniques to produce world-class quality products consistently. And, for developing new grades and improving the performance of existing grades the unit is equipped with an up-to-date R&D center where synthesis, instrument analysis and application parameters are checked.
“The plant also has a well-defined ETP facility to take care of environmental aspects and the effluents generated are treated and used in the process. In addition, it also has direct pipeline connection to the port and adequate storage tanks to store monomer and finished products within the plant,” explained Vijay S. Nair.
“Visen’s HFZA facility has adequate land available for expanding our capacity to 300,000 metric tons per annum which we plan to accomplish in the next three years,” added Vijay S. Nair.
“We are proud to welcome one of the market leaders in India into our family and we wish them all the success in the future”, said Saud Salim Al Mazrouei, director of HFZA and SAIF Zone.
Visen Polymers FZE is a wholly owned subsidiary of Visen Industries Ltd, (VIL), Mumbai, India and was founded by Mr. Vijay S. Nair, a first generation entrepreneur in 1985. Visen had a modest beginning with an annual production of 500 MT polymer emulsions and now has four full-fledged manufacturing units with a total production capacity of 120,000 metric tons.
Visen is the market leader in India with regular customers like Asian Paints, Berger Paints, Kansai Nerolac and Jotun Paints.
While asked about future projects, Vijay S. Nair said that Visen is also setting up a plant at Chennai, South India with a capacity of 60,000 tons per annum.
The product range for this plant includes Vinyl acetate homo polymers, copolymers and ter polymers, styrene acrylates and pure acrylates, having application, in exterior and interior paints, waterproofing and coatings in the construction industry, in textiles for finishing, printing, flocking & coatings and in adhesives for BOPP tapes, stickers, wet laminations and other packaging applications.
Visen FZE plant will supply to paint majors in the region like Jotun Paints, Hempel, Berger, Al Gurg, Akzo Nobel and Crown Paints.
Mohammed Meer Al Sarrah, Director of Sea Ports and Customs, Yaqub Abdullah, Director, Marketing and Head of Administration of Sea Ports and Customs also attended the ceremony.