The SCL Knowledge Centre aims to be the fountainhead of all future businesses of SCL group. This will be achieved through an intense development effort on various streams of novel and futuristic applications for the life sciences industry.
Saurav Chemicals Limited have acquired land at the ICICI Knowledge Park at Genome Valley near Hyderabad to establish this Centre.
The Centre will house development facilities to aid the emerging needs of preventive medicines and to help SCL overcome the volatility caused by worldwide events through parallel development of several Value-added Business streams. The Developments carried out at the Knowledge Center will help commercialize these avenues for the growth and sustainability of SCL.
With an idea to encourage and enable creativity it was intentionally planned to locate the Knowledge Centre away from the Operational Hub of SCL’s manufacturing facilities in Punjab.
Over the next few years this Centre, will create a pipeline of products for CDMO/CRO clients, focusing on niche API segments and develop Specialty and Performance Chemicals which will find use in cutting edge applications in several industries, one of the key verticals at the SCL knowledge Centre will be focused on development of a portfolio of Ingredients /Components for the new applications in the Vaccine industry.
To be located at Hyderabad, the Centre will be the source of all IP generation for SCL & feed the pipelines of the Verticals planned by SCL.
The Center will provide SCL the flexibility to focus on Innovative product development
Will serve to showcase SCL's developmental range to International Partners.
Will generate pipeline for the three Verticals of SCL consisting of: CDMO & Niche products, Vaccine ingredients, Specialty/ Performance chemicals.
All assets and IP will be owned by SCL, thus adding to its Worth and Brand.
Is located close to high quality Academic and Research environment.
Will help SCL build a new Culture and develop an internal pool of talent.
Mr. Sengupta supervises Business Development and Sales for International Markets. A Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from Thapar University, Patiala, India, he also did his Post Graduation in International Trade from IIFT, New Delhi, India. After working in several companies including a few multinationals, he joined the company in the year 2000 and was co-opted as a member of the Board in 2003. With 37 years of industrial experience including19 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, and notable expertise driving corporate value creation by partnering with many clients worldwide resulting in exports to over 75 different countries. Most recently he has been looking at various strategic growth options for the company.
Parveen Goyal
Chairman cum Management Director
Qualifications /Year: B.E Electronics (1982)
Mr. Goyal belongs to a business family from interior Punjab. He started his entrepreneurial journey immediately after his Graduation with the manufacturing of surfactants. In 1997, taking up a challenge from Ranbaxy supply source team he set up the first Intermediate manufacturing unit at Village Saidpura, Distt Mohali in Punjab.
The unit has since then gone on to become the largest Bromine handling facility in the hinterlands and produces 7-8 critical KSM/ Side chain and other Pharma intermediates used in manufacturing of Cephalosporins and Carbapenems. In 2003, he established the second manufacturing plant in Village Bhagwanpura, Distt Dera Bassi on a 10 Acre plot of land. The unit was set up to cater to the requirements of Indian and Foreign MNCs needing APIs and Advanced Intermediates and received its first EU GMP approval in 2005. The unit now has several Manufacturing blocks and majorly exports its production to several regulated markets.
Mr. Goyal has acquired experience in all areas of Management. He is known for his passion for optimization and perfection, he has also spearheaded the setting up of the company’s in-house ERP systems. The excellent reputation that SCL enjoys in its peer group is largely owed to the principles and values set by him. In his latest role as a leader, he is now involved in setting the Goals and vision for the next generation of SCL businesses and growth.
Saurav Goyal
Saurav completed his Chemical Engineering from Syracuse University, NY in the year 2013. It was around this time that Mitsubishi Corporation invested in SCL. To better understand the systems and processes followed in large MNCs and to get a broader perspective of the Chemicals and allied Industries, he got an opportunity to work as an employee with Mitsubishi offices, first in New Delhi and then in New Jersey.
In both places Saurav successfully dealt with and added value to Mitsubishi Sales.
In the course of five years spent with Mitsubishi he has marketed products ranging from Agrochemicals, Excipients, APIs, Fine Chemicals and Advanced intermediates. Given this background and the Journey on which SCL has now embarked upon, he has been appointed to head the Critical “New Product Development” portfolio.
