- Business
- Organic Coatings Limited (ORGCOAT.BO), founded in 1965 and headquartered in Mumbai, India, manufactures, sells, and trades printing inks and allied products primarily for the graphic arts, printing, and surface coatings sectors. The company offers offset inks including Hexachrome, Rich Green, Monarch, Dry Rich, Superstar, and Polytuff; ultraviolet (UV) inks for dry offset, flexo, wet offset sheetfed and web, and silk screen applications; water-based flexo inks; print finishes applied via roller coater, dampening roller, ink duct, and flexo; security inks such as fugitive inks, invisible inks, magic inks, alkali sensitive ink, penetrating black, coin reactive ink, and pen reactive ink; and specialty inks encompassing matt process colors, cold carbonizing inks in red and black, carbonless black ink, and fluorescent inks. Organic Coatings operates manufacturing facilities in Mumbai and Vadodara, Gujarat, with distribution networks across India and exports to the United States, North and South America, CIS countries, the Middle East, and Africa. Recent developments include the approval of unaudited Q2 and H1 fiscal 2025 results as of September 30, 2025, alongside the appointment of two new directors, and ongoing investments in production capacity such as a Rs 3-crore Cobra mill in Mumbai boosting output by 250 tons per month and a Rs 2.5-crore 100,000 sq. ft. facility in Padra, Vadodara, to support backward integration in pigments, flushes, resins, and varnishes. The company maintains active status as a public listed Indian non-government entity, with its latest annual general meeting held on September 30, 2024, and balance sheet filed as of March 31, 2024.