Acquisition brings proven membrane infrastructure to ADIMEM’s Sayakha facility, deepening vertical integration in advanced RO/NF membrane manufacturing.
Vipul Organics, India’s leading specialty chemicals player in pigments and dyes, today announced that its membrane unit, ADIMEM Technologies, has successfully acquired an advanced industrial membrane sheet manufacturing platform from the Denmark facility of Aquaporin, a recognised Danish membrane technology company, through a competitive bidding process. The platform will be relocated to ADIMEM’s manufacturing facility in Sayakha, Gujarat, marking a major step forward in the company’s membrane manufacturing journey.
The acquired platform comprises of precision membrane casting, coating and drying infrastructure, along with associated process-control and manufacturing systems, the same production grade platform that Aquaporin used for its own membrane development and production. For advanced Reverse Osmosis (RO) and Nanofiltration (NF) membranes, performance depends as much on precise, repeatable control of manufacturing parameters as on membrane chemistry, and acquiring proven infrastructure gives ADIMEM capability that typically takes years to build organically.
ADIMEM is already a commercial membrane business, with capabilities spanning indigenous membrane R&D, product development, element manufacturing, quality control, performance testing and application engineering. This acquisition significantly strengthens its in-house membrane manufacturing capabilities, bringing advanced casting and coating infrastructure to a scale and reliability comparable to established global players, and marks a further step in vertically integrating the membrane value chain in India.
“This acquisition is an important step in our vision of building a globally competitive membrane technology business from India,” says Vipul P Shah, Managing Director, Vipul Organics. “Winning this platform through a competitive bidding process, and bringing proven manufacturing infrastructure from a respected Danish membrane technology company to Sayakha, meaningfully strengthens our vertical integration and supports the Make in India vision.”
“Membrane performance is won as much in the precision of casting, coating and drying as it is in chemistry. This platform gives us exactly that kind of advanced, production-proven infrastructure,” says Dr Vatsal Shah, who leads ADIMEM Technologies. “Combined with our indigenous R&D and existing element manufacturing, testing and application engineering capabilities, it strengthens our ability to develop and manufacture world-class RO and NF membranes in India, for India and for the world.”
The strengthened platform will support ADIMEM’s portfolio across RO, NF, UF, MF and MBR technologies, serving applications including industrial water treatment, wastewater recycling, desalination and specialised process separations, and reinforces Vipul Organics’ strategy of expanding into high-technology, sustainability-driven businesses.