The Paint Industry has been growing at a healthy rate over the past few years , Asian Paints is the market leader in decorative paints both distemper as well as emulsion paints. The company has a market share of over 65% of the decorative paints in India. Looking at the current & future demand of the product in market Asian paint decided to construct its 8th greenfield paint manufacturing plant in India with a window of only 8-10 month, the company aims to start production from this facility by mid of this year. The turnkey contract for constructing of this plant near Pune with the initial capacity of 150,000 tonnes was awarded with a value of 40 Cr. to Interarch.

Project Spotlight – Asian Paints Khandala Manufacturing Facility near Pune
The main challenge in front of Interarch at this time was to finish the project in the stipulated time period along with high safety expectations of the client. Another challenge in front of Interarch was the extreme dimensions of the buildings required by client for manufacturing process and stacking of raw materials, the entire project has 18 buildings in totality had variable heights with buildings towering at those of up to 30 M and had clear spans of upto of 44 M. The total project consumed more than 3000 MT of steel for structural system and around 70,000 Sq. of roofing & sheeting was supplied and installed. The entire pre-engineered steel was manufactured in InterarchPant Nagar plant and to overcome the shortness of time 3 shifts with over 150 workers & supervisor’s was started for nearly 2 months. Separate bays were created in the manufacturing plant to paint the rafters and beams as desired by the client. It took over 2 months to manufacture the steel and roofing system required.

Once at site the erection process of 18 buildings was initially were hard to manage. To satisfy the client safety expectations we had to hire the entire erection team from South East Asia.

Further, to save time no scaffolding were used and only electronic boom lifts were employed with specially trained manpower. For the first time safe roof access of 35 M high was created by Interarch of Pipe Structure and for safety inspection.

Interarch played an integral role in bringing up the steel buildings of Asian Paints in a short span of time with 18 buildings in remote location near Pune. The manufacturing plant were made using Interarch’s much spoken about roofing systems TRACDEK® Standing Seam Roofing system, with cladding systems of TRACDEK® Hi-Rib SMP.

The ability of Interarch to complete the project under the strict safety and quality guidelines ensured Interarch would deploy almost 17-20dedicated safety engineers and almost 15 other dedicated quality engineers on the site to ensure the highest standards of HSE regulations and quality controlled execution

The client has also awarded Interarch Building Products for ensuring safe & healthy work environment at site.