Originally founded by the company Johnson&Johnson, PRS Permacel is today a subsidiary of the PRS Group. Over the past years, they have grown to a leading company manufacturing adhesive tapes. In India, PRS Permacel started its production line in the 1950s. They started with a lot of innovation and technology in the areas of labels, insulation and specialty tapes.
The main fields of production are labels for the automotive industry, insulation, thermal division, official seals, and the space division in India. As an example, in the car industry, PRS Permacel is responsible for the whole supply chain of individual design stickers. They design the graphics, print them and have even the option to apply them to the vehicle.
Venkatesh Kulkarni and his colleagues warmly welcomed the Focus India delegation at the headquarter in Ambernath. The company tour gave the delegation the opportunity to have an in-depth view inside the manufacturing processes such as the process of printing. The different techniques of multilayer printing have been demonstrated. PRS Permacel does all the designs in this process, the pattern for silkscreen printing and the printing process itself.
Furthermore, the delegation had the chance to see the complete formation process of an adhesive tape. All the ingredients were blended by hand and put together with the help of machinery to complete the final product. Everybody was surprised about the method itself and the manner, how this company achieves such great results with that many stages. Additionally, the different inventions for the distinctive areas of use where security matters were impressively thought through.
The delegation enjoyed the company visit and certainly learned a lot. It was a great opportunity to discover a business field that was unknown to most of the delegation members.
(Article by Moritz Widmer and Stephan Bleiker / Photo: Jonas Hufschmid)