Company profile: Kapoor Glass India
Family business with improvement in its DNA Vial manufacturer, ampoule producer…and glass equipment builder. Faced wth the prospect of purchasing expensive European glass production technology, Kapoor Glass decided on a unique approach: it would customise the machinery itself. Greg Morris spoke to Udit and Dhruv Kapoor about the company’s success. cold-end inspection system for glass vials as well as a cosmetic inspection system for vials. The award was the culmination of a strategy adopted by the company in 2010 to focus on the European pharmaceutical market. It meant producing high quality glass to meet the demanding standards of European customers but often at lower - or ‘Chinese’ - prices
Honoured Mr Kapoor said it was a privilege to be recognised by the AIGMF. He said: “It was a real honour to get that kind of recognition, we had been chipping away working in our back yard and then to get that recognition at a global scale was testament to our team, staff, management, supplier partners and vendors. Everyone came together and it means a big deal to Continued>>
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harmaceutical glass manufacturer Kapoor Glass was recently awarded the CK Somany award for Innovation and Technology by the All India Glass Manufacturers Association (AIGMF) for its work in progressing the industry forward. AIGMF judges commended the company in developing a variety of customised glass manufacturing equipment which has enabled it to compete with large European corporations in the pharmaceutical glass sector, where quality standards are incredibly stringent. Judges congratulated Kapoor Glass Director, Udit Kapoor, for the company’s development of an ‘indigenous hot-end camera system, along with operating software, to achieve online automation control over key production parameters to end up with quality production of glass vials of international standards.’ Among the systems that Kapoor developed were a hot-end camera inspection unit for ampoules, a
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