New Delhi [India], July 9 (ANI): Nilkamal, a manufacturer of moulded furniture has joined forces with Reliance Foundation to donate 2000 quick covid bed, 2000 bedside cabinets, mattress and pillows to the Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre at the Radha Soami Satsang Beas in the national capital.

Nilkamal’s quick covid bed (QCB) has been designed during the coronavirus lockdown as an innovative and low-cost bed ideal for make-shift hospitals.

The QCB is made from high strength plastic sheets and has a high load-carrying capacity of up to 300 kg. The bed is long-lasting and most economical.

“It can be assembled in under 3 minutes, easy to clean and sanitise with disinfectants and is 100 per cent recyclable. QCB is ideal for the current monsoon season as it is 100 per cent waterproof, termite and bacteria proof and has no odour, unlike cardboard beds,” Mihir Parekh, executive director of head bubble guard division NILKAMAL Ltd told ANI.

“Being lightweight it is easy to transport and can be flat-packed to store and re-use in future crisis scenarios,” added Parekh.

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Nilkamal Limited, a household name in the furniture segment across India, has stepped in to raise awareness on prevention against COVID-19 through the message ‘stay home for a better tomorrow’.

With the entire nation under lockdown since mid-March, most individuals are staying indoors and working from home. The new schedule has brought in a paradigm shift in the ways of life, and social isolation is proving to be challenging for some people.

In order to address this, Nilkamal has created a slice of life film. Through this, it is not only urging consumers to adhere to the government mandates but is also offering them a friendly solution on how to cope with the situation. The beauty of this is in the present moments it captures and the magical way it takes you down memory lane. Meeting up with old hobbies, bringing back lost time, falling in love with life again – this film encapsulates life as we know it, and a positive change the lockdown presents. This is an ode to a renewed sense of life, our chance of cherishing long-lost passions and what ‘staying home’ truly means in times like these.

Nilkamal along with its social media agency, Interactive Avenues – A Reprise Network Company leveraged social media to reach this film to the larger audience.

Manish Parekh, Executive Director, Nilkamal Furniture Divison, said, “Our endeavour is to stay connected with our consumers and help them stay positive and entertained. In this hour of crisis, that is exactly what we are trying to convey to our consumers through this film. We have made this film, keeping all the restrictions in mind, with the hope that it will make a difference in the lives of our consumers.”

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Furniture maker Nilkamal Ltd on Thursday announced the launch of a special range of products, including quarantine and isolation beds, as part of its efforts to support growing healthcare infrastructure needs due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The company, which has supplied 1,000 ‘Covid Quarantine’ beds, mattresses, and other furniture to Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), said its new offerings have been developed keeping in mind comfort and convenience of patients.

Commenting on the new product introductions, Nilkamal Ltd Vice-President Operations Ajay Agarwal said, “The coronavirus pandemic has augmented the necessity of innovative and applicable solutions to meet the emerging need gap in the market. As an organisation, Nilkamal has tasked itself to step up and address this requirement.”

He further said, “These innovative products are the outcome of our research and development team that has been working round-the-clock to devise unique solutions. We are optimistic that these solutions will be beneficial to all stakeholders in our fight against this pandemic.”

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The Parekhs of Nilkamal have, over nearly four decades, built a brand that’s become synonymous with plastics

A few years after Nilkamal was set up in 1981, Sharad Parekh, then 37, found himself following a milk van all the way to the Worli Dairy in central Mumbai. Now 75, and managing director of Nilkamal, he had been on the lookout for new growth avenues. Operation Flood had led to a mushrooming of dairies and he wanted to see if Nilkamal could enter the market for plastic milk crates, which was a huge emerging opportunity. His persistence paid off and, by 1983, Nilkamal got an order for plastic crates, opening up a new business line.

The 1980s and the 1990s were when plastics began to be used in a whole host of applications due to the availability of high density polyethylene in India. Heated, injected into moulds, cooled and then solidified, these plastics are strong and durable at a far lower cost than metal. Plastic buckets replaced metal ones. Foldable metal chairs at wedding venues made way for lighter plastic ones that were easier to transport. Office chairs and suitcases have also gradually moved to plastic.

A host of unorganised players emerged but a few brands were built. Since then Nilkamal, Supreme Industries, and Wimplast (Cello) have emerged as trusted names. Be they plastic chairs, tables, office furniture or industrial crates, the Parekhs of Nilkamal have an almost four-decade history of innovating and entering new lines of business with unfailing regularity.

In a market in which brand loyalty and pricing power are not necessarily strong, they have worked to make the name recognisable and trustworthy. This is clear from its enviable growth record from the time it listed in 1991. Revenues have since climbed from ₹5.09 crore to ₹2,160 crore, a compounded growth of 25.1 percent over 27 years. Though the business is heavily dependent on raw material prices, it has healthy operating metrics. At ₹123 crore in profit in the year ended March 2018 and a market cap of ₹1,900 crore, the company generated a return on equity of 14.5 percent. This is commendable, given that Nayan Parekh, president and executive director (material handling), acknowledges, “There are zero barriers to entry. It is a combination of many factors that results in a moat.”

“ There are zero barriers to entry. A combination of many factors results in a moat.”

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at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium at Kaloor
from 15.12.2018 to 26.12.2018 ( 12 days )

at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium , Kaloor
Ernakulam from 02.11.2018 to 19.11.2018 ( 19 days )

Nilkamal Material Handling efficaciously participated in India’s biggest poultry event, Paschim Banga Poultry Mela 2018 organised in Kolkata during 15th – 17th feb. 2018.
Nilkamal’s poultry products & solutions were distinctively showcased in this show. We received worthy response from various govt., semi-govt., and private agricultural & animal husbandry visitors.
Congratulations Nilkamal Kolkata Team !

Nilkamal Limited, world’s largest manufacturer of moulded furniture and Asia’s largest plastic processor of moulded products, organized a three day fare in the city last week to create awareness in market about using hygienic containers for storing food.

Given the importance of food safety, Cambro, the world’s largest company providing products for food service industries entered a 50-50 joint venture with Nilkamal for manufacturing select products and marketing across India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal.

At the show, there were lots of products useful for hotels like FPO max crates, Industry standard crates, Heavy duty and conductive crates, that are made from specially blended raw material to prevent electric charges from passing through. Also on display were kit and modular crates widely used in electronics and electrical industry for storage and movement.

Foldable boxes/crates which are flexible, lightweight, safe to handle, can be folded multiple times and reused attracted lot of queries besides shelves made of composite materials, insulated and bulk containers, metallic cages, stacking frames for bulk material handling.

The innovative storage systems showcased talked about many advantages. Quick and easy to assemble, they also have more storage capacity even on less floor space, have increased load bearing capacity and are economical in the long run. There were also many multipurpose glasses of different shapes with an unique feature. They are strongly tempered and not easily breakable. There were also poly carbonate glasses and fast food trays imported from France and China.

The ice boxes with excellent insulation which maintain uniform temperature for storage and transportation of frozen food, meat, confectioneries, ice cream and are also used for storing soft drinks, snacks, pastries and frozen foods were another hit at the exhibition.

“These items are a boon for market and people are going crazy “ said Mr. Rajesh Chowdhury, the Regional Manager, Hospitality division, Nilkamal Ltd. The feedback from the customers was apparently encouraging.

Held for the first time in Madurai, there were visitors from many good hotels and catering colleges. Mr. P.K.Rajendran, Deputy General Manager, Nilkamal Limited said that through this exhibition, the customers were educated about various products. “Belief in service and quality is the secret of our success,” he added.

This article was originally published in “The Hindu”
“https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/store-food-safely/article3720115.ece”