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- Pudumjee Paper Products Limited Pudumjee Paper Products Ltd manufactures specialty papers and hygiene products in India. Incorporated in 2015 through a demerger of paper businesses from Pudumjee Pulp & Paper Mills Limited, Pudumjee Industries Limited, and Pudumjee Hygiene Products Limited, the company traces its manufacturing roots to a Pune facility established in 1964 and maintains its headquarters in Mumbai with production centered at Thergaon, Pune, spanning 55 acres; it holds certifications including ISO 14001:2008, ISO 22000, ISO 45001, FSC, and FDA. The company operates an installed capacity exceeding 72,000 tonnes per annum across two state-of-the-art Fourdrinier machines and two Yankee machines, serving domestic institutional buyers such as hotels, airports, and corporates, as well as exporting to over 13 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Africa; its segments encompass Paper, producing high-performance grades for packaging, pharma, food, decor, and printing applications, and Hygiene Products, offering converted tissues under the Greenlime brand.
Core products include food grades such as bake oven paper, greaseproof paper, vegetable parchment paper, and wet strength greaseproof; pharma grades like medical bactite paper, OLB pharma, and SIRIPAC medical packaging paper; super calendar grades encompassing glassine, super white glassine, S/C kraft paper, and release base paper; decor grades featuring absorbent kraft paper, barrier paper, overlay paper, print base paper, and shuttering base paper; specialties grades such as absorbent porous kraft paper, anti-rust tissue paper, carbon base paper, melamine transfer paper, packing tissue paper, parchmentine paper, and saturating base paper; security paper including MICR cheque paper and band roll paper; writing and printing grades like bible printing paper and thin printing paper; and hygiene products comprising crepe tissue, facial tissue, napkin tissue, bathroom/toilet tissue rolls, kitchen towels, pocket tissue, pre-cut kitchen towels, paper napkins, C-fold/M-fold towels, and dispensers.
Recent developments feature production rebounding to near pre-COVID levels at 64,305 MT in FY 2023-24 with enhanced process efficiencies and minimized waste; pursuit of a second greenfield expansion at the 75-acre Mahad site in Maharashtra, including statutory clearances for capital investments in customer relationship management and value-added paper grades; installation of a 15.4 MW solar power project pending approvals to support renewable energy use alongside existing wind power; and sustained focus on R&D for eco-friendly specialty papers, closed-loop recycling, and FSC-certified pulp sourcing amid plans to produce approximately 70,000 MT in FY 2024-25 through optimized utilization and product mix adjustments.