75 Years of Innovation in Paint

The company has come a long way since its small beginning in 1942. Four friends who were willing to take on the world's biggest, most famous paint companies operating in India at that time set it up as a partnership firm. Over the course of 25 years, Asian Paints became a corporate force and India's leading paints company. Driven by its strong consumer-focus and innovative spirit, the company has been the market leader in paints since 1967.

Asian Paints is India’s leading paint company with a group turnover of Rs 193.50 billion. The group has an enviable reputation in the corporate world for professionalism, fast track growth, and building shareholder equity. Asian Paints operates in 15 countries and has 26 paint manufacturing facilities in the world servicing consumers in over 60 countries. Besides Asian Paints, the group operates around the world through its subsidiaries  Asian Paints Berger, Apco Coatings, SCIB Paints, Taubmans, Causeway Paints and Kadisco Asian Paints.

Asian Paints manufactures wide range of paints for Decorative and Industrial use. 

In Decorative paints, Asian Paints is present in all the four segments v.i.z Interior Wall Finishes, Exterior Wall Finishes, Enamels and Wood Finishes.  It also offers Water proofing,  wall coverings and adhesives in its product portfolio.

Asian Paints also operates through ‘PPG Asian Paints Pvt Ltd’ (50:50 JV between Asian Paints and PPG Inc, USA, one of the largest automotive coatings manufacturer in the world) to service the increasing requirements of the Indian automotive coatings market. The second 50:50 JV with PPG named ‘Asian Paints PPG Pvt Ltd’ services the protective, industrial powder, industrial containers and light industrial coatings markets in India.

Vertical integration has seen Asian Paints diversify into chemical products such as Phthalic Anhydride and Pentaerythritol, which are used in the paint manufacturing process.  The company has discontinued production of Phthalic Anhydride from end of July 2017.

In the Home Improvement and Décor category, the company is present in the Kitchen and Bath fittings space and offers various products under Sleek and Ess Ess brand respectively.

Today, the Asian Paints group operates in 15 countries across the world across four regions viz. Asia, Middle East, South Pacific and Africa through the eight corporate brands viz. Asian Paints, Asian Paints Berger, SCIB Paints, Apco Coatings, Taubmans, Causeway Paints and Kadisco. 

Asian Paints in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Indonesia (Asia)

Causeway Paints in Sri Lanka (Asia)

SCIB Paints in Egypt (Africa)

Asian Paints Berger in UAE, Bahrain and Oman (Middle East); 

Apco Coatings in Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu (South Pacific)

Kadisco Asian Paints in Ethiopia (Africa)

Taubmans in Fiji and Samoa (South Pacific)

Asian Paints with its intent to enter the Home Improvement and Décor space in India had acquired 51% stake in Sleek group, a kitchen solutions provider in August 2013.  Sleek is a major player in the organized modern kitchen space and is engaged in the business of manufacturing, selling and distribution of modular kitchens as well as kitchen components including wire baskets, cabinets, appliances, accessories etc.  Recently, the company has launched ‘Smart Kitchen’ range for easy installation and design under the Sleek brand. Sleek has also introduced wardrobes in its portfolio since FY17. In December 2017, Asian Paints acquired the balance 49% in sleek from its erstwhile promoters.  Sleek is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the company.

In June 2014, Asian Paints acquired the entire front and sales business including Brands, Network and Sales Infrastructure of Ess Ess Bathroom products Pvt Ltd.  Ess Ess is a prominent player in the bath segment in India and has high quality products in this segment.   Recently,  the company has  introduced ‘Royale’ – premium range of bath fittings as well as ‘Bathsense’ – sanitary ware range of products for the evolving consumer.

Both, the Kitchen and Bath business have been co-branded with Asian Paints.

Asian Paints along with its subsidiaries have operations in 15 countries across the world with 26 paint manufacturing facilities, servicing consumers in over 65 countries

Country No.	Countries	Manufacturing Plants	Location/Operating Brand
South Asia
1	India	10	Ankleshwar & Sarigam (Gujarat), Patancheru (Telangana), Kasna (Uttar Pradesh), Sriperumbudur (Tamil Nadu), Rohtak (Haryana), Khandala & Taloja (Maharashtra), Mysuru (Karnataka), Visakhapatam (Andhra Pradesh)
2	SriLanka	2	Asian Paints (1) , Causeway (1)
3	Nepal	2	Asian Paints
4	Bangladesh	1	Asian Paints
South East Asia
5	Indonesia	1	Asian Paints
South Pacific
6	Tonga		Apco Coatings
7	Fiji	1	Apco Coatings & Taubmans
8	Samoa Islands	1	Taubmans
9	Vanuatu		Apco Coatings
10	Solomon Islands		Apco Coatings
Middle East
11	Oman	1	Asian Paints Berger
12	Bahrain	1	Asian Paints Berger
13	Dubai	1	Asian Paints Berger
14	Egypt	2	SCIB Paints
Africa
15	Ethiopia	3	Kadisco Asian Paints
Total		26

We are inclusive of our communities through a range of social interventions, enhancing skills and building social infrastructure to improve their quality of life.

While our CSR approach focuses on the development of communities around the vicinity of our plants, we have also developed innovative programs that leverage our capabilities as a paint manufacturer and home improvement service provider to enhance livelihoods of underserved communities through vocational training and skills development. 

CSR Focus Areas and Initiatives

Our CSR Policy focuses on four thrust areas

Education

Skills Development

Healthcare/Hygiene and

Water Management

Education

Asian Paints recognizes the importance of education as a powerful means to reduce poverty and social inequality and hence this is a key impact area in our growing CSR practice. We are committed to promoting access to quality education particularly for disadvantaged communities that are located around our facilities.

Our interventions include:

Adoption and Infrastructure Development of Schools 

Upgradation of school building

Providing Chairs, Benches  and other classroom aids

Setting up libraries and science laboratories

Enrolling students and community leaders on the importance of education

Provision of Educational Resources to Students in the form of 

Training on computer usage

Coaching assistance for Competitive Examinations

Training girls in Self-Defense Techniques

Workshops to enhance Soft Skills

Scholarships for Higher Education

Our educational programs are implemented through our project partners and are aimed at supporting every stage of a child’s educational cycle and preparing him to move from childhood to livelihood.

 

Skills Development - Vocational Training

In keeping with national developmental goals on skills development, Asian Paints is committed to providing vocational training to improve skills in the unorganized sector. We aspire to provide vocational and skill based training to painters, applicators, carpenters and workers, to enhance their employability and improve their livelihoods.

The Asian Paints Colour Academy - Transforming the trade & lives - everyday.

Focus on Skilling & vocational

Technical knowledge distribution

Productivity & Livelihood Enhancement

Provide Recognition, respect

The Asian Paints Colour Academy is equipped with modern facilities like fully equipped classroom with modern A/v facilities, clean and fully equipped modern workshops for hands on trainings, inspiration area & contractor resource centre in order to continually upskill existing painters into specialists. 

The Academy also provides vocational training to unskilled youth on basic and specialized painting techniques to enable them to earn a decent living. The Colour Academy operates in 3 formats:

Fixed Colour Academy at Mumbai, Delhi – West, Delhi – East, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Pune, Hyderabad, Cochin & Gorakhpur

 

Mobile Colour Academy at Kerala & South TN, Punjab & Chandigarh, Rest of Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, North East, Bihar & Jharkhand, Gujarat & West MP, East UP & East MP & Chhattisgarh, Rest of Karnataka, Coastal AP & Odisha.

 

Hypermobile (earlier known as ‘Royale Play trainer’)

Asian Paints has partnered with the National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) to strengthen the delivery of this program to both unskilled and semi-skilled individuals. While Asian Paints provides technical know-how, prepare training content and deliver training modules, NSDC monitors, evaluates and certifies participants who complete the training program. On successful completion, participants are awarded an NSDC certification based on National Occupation Standards set by NSDC’s Construction Sector Skills Council. Painter training is structured professionally and includes a mix of theoretical, practical demonstration and hands-on learning with a regular schedule of assessment to track progress. All courses delivered are aligned to NSDC’s National Occupational Standards certification. All courses are certified by the Govt. of India. The contractors can undergo advanced trainings at a later stage in their city. Asian Paints has till now given NSDC certifications to 9000 painters/contractors.  

Colour Academy is now transforming itself into a pure vocational training setup delivered through a collection of modules – which together enhance specific skills. This will equip individuals with self-employable skills or develop specialist skills to provide additional painting and allied services. Going forward we plan to further expand the scope of this project.

Healthcare and Hygiene

With a growing population, sanitation and healthcare have become central to India’s development agenda. By directing resources towards access to healthcare, better sanitation facilities and hygiene, we look to support interventions that include :

Primary Healthcare Support

Free Medical Camps for Rural Communities

Setting up of Rehabilitation Centres

Development of Hospital Labs

Provision of Mobile Medical Units and Ambulances

Implementing Sanitation Projects

Awareness programs for communities on Health and Hygiene

Ongoing program ‘Safar’ improves Health and Awareness among truck drivers

Providing access to Safe Drinking Water

Healthcare support through Localized Medical Camps

Rural communities residing around our plants lack access to basic healthcare facilities. We provide healthcare support through periodic medical check-ups and diagnosis camps that are facilitated by specialists and trained doctors. Patients who require further medical care and treatment are referred to local hospitals.

All expenses related to medical camps or treatment charges at the hospital are borne by Asian Paints and employees actively volunteer and participate in organizing the medical camps by campaigning for the program, coordinating with project partners and helping with logistics.

 

Providing and Improving Sanitation Facilities

For the underserved communities around our plants, we have partnered with local organizations to help build toilets and improve sanitary conditions. By identifying homes through the Panchayat head, and requests from under privileged families, we support the project and are directly involved in its structuring, location selection, customization, execution and awareness building sessions to educate beneficiaries on proper maintenance. The toilets are designed to promote hygiene as they require minimal maintenance and have leach pits to convert domestic waste into manure.

Water Conservation

Livelihoods, food security and local socio-economic development are linked to the availability of adequate amounts of clean water. In the Indian context, the problem of water scarcity is further complicated by population growth, urbanization and industrialization. We believe it is our responsibility to judiciously use and help conserve this precious resource. Our approach includes providing support and infrastructure at each stage of water conservation, water preservation, water re-charge and waste water treatment.

Water is a critical input in our manufacturing process. We are conscious of our dependence on water and have strived to optimize our water consumption by implementing a range of water conservation projects, waste water treatment, reusing process water and water recharging initiatives at all of our manufacturing facilities.

Our key interventions include:

Awareness on water conservation in schools and nearby villages

Installation of roof top rainwater harvesting and recharge systems in village communities and schools

Promoting integrated watershed development in areas around manufacturing locations

Water recharge through de-silting of lakes.

 

To view our CSR policy, click here.

BR Reports

BR Report FY 2014-15

BR Report FY 2013-14

Contact CSR cell

Asian Paints Limited

6A, Shantinagar,

Vakola Pipeline Road

Santacruz (East),

Mumbai - 400 055, India

Tel : +91-22-62181000

Fax : +91-22-62181111

Email : csr@asianpaints.com

We shall comply with all statutory and other applicable requirements.

We shall provide products and services that meet stated standards on time, every time.

We shall continually improve our processes to understand changing stakeholder needs and preferences including statutory changes and use the same as input for periodically reviewing and revising performance standards of our products and services.

We accept Zero Defect as a quality absolute, and shall design and operate our quality system accordingly.

We shall organize our work practices to do a job right the first time, every time.

We are committed to continual improvement in quality in all business processes and shall track such improvement through measurable indicators.

Managing Director & CEO 

25th January 2019

EC Letter - APL Penta Plant, Cuddalore

EC Compliance - APL Penta Plant 

Environment Statement - APL Penta Plant 

Environment Statement - APL Penta Plant 

EC Compliance - APL Penta Plant 

EC Letter - APL Penta Plant Cuddalore-6720 TPA

Environmental Statement-APL Penta Plant

EC compliance APL Penta Plant

EC compliance APL Penta Captive Power Plant

Penta Environment Statement – Form V

Penta Half Yearly Compliance Report

EC Compliance – APL Penta  Plant Oct 16 - Mar 17

Environmental Clearance - Penta - Asian Paints - 24 April 2018 

Penta Half Yearly Compliance Report- Apr 18 – Sep 18 

Bio Medical Waste Generation 2017

Bio Medical Waste Generation 2018

Bio Medical Waste Generation 2019

Environmental Clearance Letter-Ankleshwar

Environmental Clearance Letter-Kasna

Environmental Clearance Letter-Khandala

Environmental Clearance Letter-Mysuru

Environmental Clearance Letter-Patancheru

Environmental Clearance Letter-Rohtak

Environmental Clearance Letter-Vizag

Half Yearly Compliance Report-Ankleshwar

Half Yearly Compliance Report-Kasna

Half Yearly Compliance Report-Khandala

Half Yearly Compliance Report-Mysuru

Half Yearly Compliance Report-Patancheru

Half Yearly Compliance Report-Rohtak

Half Yearly Compliance Report-Vizag

Asian Paints is committed to manage its operations including deployment of resources using principles of sustainable development to minimize impact on environment and protect health & safety of our employees, service providers, neighboring communities and customers.

We shall comply with all statutory requirements.  We consider compliance to statutory EHS requirements as the minimum performance standard and are committed to go beyond and adopt stricter standards.  We shall annually publish our EHS performance to all stakeholders.

We shall source our materials and products from vendors that comply with the child labor laws and other statutory regulations.

We shall continually improve our products with an intention to improve their environmental & safety footprint.  We shall educate customers on safe use of our products.

We are committed to protecting the environment by:

Adhering to highest operational standards for handling hazardous materials

Preventing Pollution & leveraging the 3R (Reduction, Recycle, Reuse) Principle and moving towards Zero Industrial Effluent Generation and Zero Hazardous Solid Waste Generation

Minimizing impact of end-of-life plastics generated out of our packaging material

Reducing Energy-intensity, Carbon-intensity and increasing contribution of Energy from Renewable Sources

Leveraging Rain Water Harvesting, Water Conservation & Water Replenishment and utilizing waste water as an alternate source

Nurturing Biodiversity within and outside our factory premises

 

We shall use principles of inherent safe design, proactively control risks in operations and improve the safety culture to move towards

Zero Accidents

Zero Occupational illness

Zero Incidents of Property Damage

 

We are committed to continual improvement in Environment, Health and Safety in all business processes and shall track such improvement through measurable indicators.

Managing Director & CEO

14th February 2019

APCO is a subsidiary of Asian Paints in the South Pacific islands. Asian Paints operates in Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu under the brand name of ApcoCoatings.

http://www.apcocoatings.com/

Founded in 1979, SCIB Paints is today a reputed name and ranks amongst the top five paint companies in Egypt. SCIB Paints became a part of the Asian Paints group in August, 2002. 

http://www.scibpaints.com

PPG Asian Paints, (earlier known as Asian PPG Industries Pvt Ltd.), established in March 1997, is a 50:50 joint venture between Asian Paints Limited and PPG Industries, Inc., USA. It was formed with the objective of providing solutions to the paint requirements of Indian automobile manufacturers. The joint venture brought together two leading companies with strengths in technology, manufacturing and customer insight.

http://www.ppgasianpaints.com

Asian Paints PPG (AP PPG), the second 50:50 joint venture with PPG Industries, Inc., USA was formed in 2012. This joint venture caters to the market for protective coatings, floor coatings, road marking paints and powder coatings.

http://www.asianpaintsppg.com

Taubmans Paints Fiji, the fourth largest paint company in Fiji, became a part of the Asian Paints family in September, 2003. Taubmans Paints is the dominant player in the project sales segment in the country and is a leader in the neighbouring Samoa Islands. It has two manufacturing facilities, one in Suva (Fiji) and the other in Samoa

As part of strategic initiative in the direction of home improvement and décor, Asian Paints identified the modern kitchen space as a key opportunity to be explored in synergy with its existing line of decorative paints business in India. In August 2013, Asian Paints acquired a 51% stake in the Sleek Group, which is a major player in the organised modern kitchen space with a pan-India presence. The company is engaged in manufacturing, selling and distributing modular kitchens as well as kitchen components including wire baskets, cabinets, appliances, accessories, etc.

http://www.sleekworld.com

As part of our continued efforts to partner people in creating beautiful homes, we present Ess Ess Bath Fittings and Accessories by Asian Paints - a smart and intriguing world of ergonomic and innovative bath concepts. Expect nothing but the best because Ess Ess, the bath fittings and accessories expert, is now a part of the Asian Paints family. From delicately crafted faucets to luxurious showers, and engineered-to-perfection accessories - every product in the range has been designed to impress.

http://www.essessindia.com/

In February 2015, Kadisco, one of the leading paint companies in Ethiopia became part of the Asian Paints group. Kadisco is engaged in the manufacture and sales of decorative paints, industrial paints, automotive paints, other coatings and adhesives in Ethiopia.

https://www.kadiscoasianpaints.com/

Since its foundation in 1942, Asian Paints has come a long way to become India’s leading and Asia’s third largest paint company, with a turnover of Rs 168.43 billion. We operate in 16 countries and have 27 paint manufacturing facilities in the world, servicing consumers in over 65 countries.

In the Middle East too Berger is a well-respected brand. It is the largest paint company in Bahrain. Using its state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities there, and in United Arab Emirates, it exports to countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Gulf Cooperation Council and Africa

Asian Paints Berger has a strong manufacturing base in the Middle East, with dedicated plants in Dubai, Sohar, and Bahrain.

https://www.asianpaintsarabia.com/uae/get-inspired