Innovative fabricator

GUEST COLUMN

Just think. In India, there are hundreds of steel manufacturers. There are thousands of steel fabricators. There are millions of steel products in our every day lives. A few decades ago, they said plastics would replace steel. There are a handful of polymer manufacturers. There are dozens of plastic processors. There are hundreds of plastic products in our every day lives. Get the difference?

There are theories and theories. This is one: in the days of cheap steel and cheap oil, there was no incentive to switch.

In the last few years, both have hardened, neutralising probable switches again. With oil and ore continuing to strengthen, there is no macro transition happening except what is driven by innovation-led fabricators who can switch media, generate savings (potentially shared by company and consumer) and enhance convenience.

The one company that is doing just this is the Mumbai-based Time Technoplast Limited. The description of