The Company

In 1991, an innovative and pioneering era started for the Sejal Group. The group had its humble origins in a 200 sq ft retail shop called “SEJAL GLASS HOUSE” located in the Mumbai suburb of Malad (West), mainly a trading house for glasses and dealing with all kinds Interior and Exterior Decorative Glasses with cutting and supply of the same. This shop was started and led by Shri. Amrutbhai S. Gada, a young and enthusiastic personality, leader and now a Chairman & Managing Director of the Sejal Group. The first manufacturing unit Glass Craft was started on 1st April, 1992 to deal independently with our prominent customers. Soon there were more orders than the facility could handle and an in-house facility for massive scale production and edge processing facility was required. With Italian collaboration for CNC technology, on 15th August, 1994 SEJAL GLASS CRAFT PVT. LTD was born as an independent processing unit that could carry out edging profiles autonomously. This company was mainly formed to produce the most advance decorative glasses with the combination of Art and CNC Technology.

Meanwhile, there was massive growth in the market and the construction industry. The SEJAL ARCHITECTURAL GLASS LTD Unit was established in 2000 at Dadra-Nagar-Haveli, (at Silvassa) to avail floating processing in house and to cope up with the enormous demand of building industry. This establishment was started with Rs. 20 crores and the entire production technology was procured and imported from viz. Finland, Austria, Italy, Germany, etc.

Products

Interior and Exterior Decorative Glasses
Sejal's products capture the essence of what is best about modern architectural glass. With a focus on protection from heat, light and noise while providing maximum visibility, Sejal Glass has a range of products to suit the most modern applications of glass in buildings. They are SOLID GLASS, KOOL GLASS, TONE GLASS, ARMOR GLASS, FORT GLASS AND DÉCOR GLASS, mainly for Architectural Building application. The products that Sejal Glass has on offer are of the highest quality. In fact, an ISO 9001:2000 certification in glass and mirror processing assures constant adherence to quality and the highest international standards.

Solid glass is a tempered glass that offers high levels of strength and endurance and is ideally suited for frameless glass assemblies, shower screens, stairway and for applications where resistance to thermal shock is required. Since Solid Glass comes in two variants—heat strengthened (HS) and fully toughened (FT), it finds a wider range of applications than many other tempered glass offerings. The HS variant is twice as strong as annealed glass and can be used where strength and thermal shock are the prime concern. FT, on the other hand, is four or five times stronger than standard annealed glass. In addition to this, it crumbles into fine fragments on breakage, eliminating the risk of personal injury. FT therefore lends itself for use as a safety glass.

Strength is not the only reason to use Solid Glass. Sejal offers surface patterns and designs printed on the glass using ceramic colours. Ceramic Silkscreen Solid Glass combines non-fading colours and graphics to offer several options in colour and graphics. Customised options are available, making it ideal for spaces where branding is a major design element. Besides its decorative properties, Ceramic Silkscreen Solid Glass cuts glare, is scratch resistant, moisture resistant and durable.

Interior and Exterior Decorative Glasses
Kool glass is a range of Insulating Glass Units (IGUs) that is ideal for areas where there is a need to maximise natural lighting and maintain uniform levels of comfort. This is the ideal glazing for wall cladding, internal partitions, doors, windows and skylights. Made with technology from Lisec, Austria, Kool Glass enables reduction in shading coefficients from 12-85% and u-values in the range of 50-85%, considerably bringing down air-conditioning and life-time costs in buildings. Kool Glass is also widely used for insulation in the transport, pharmaceutical and refrigeration industries.

Kool Glass is a high-performance and low maintenance product and is available in double and triple glazed versions with provisions for conventional, structural and stepped mounting. Further, clear, tinted and coated versions are available, as are annealed, heat-strengthened, toughened and laminated ones.

In a nutshell, Kool Glass is a must if you are looking at reduced investments in air conditioning and heating, savings in electricity consumption and better comfort levels and hence quality work environments.

Tone glass is a specially designed Acoustic Insulation Unit that offers noise control to the extent of achieving sound attenuation of 50 dB. Tone Glass can be configured to cut out specific sound frequencies. Along with other properties like thermal insulation, added strength and safety, it can be customised to meet the specific requirements of a project.

Interior and Exterior Decorative Glasses
Armor glass is a laminated glass product with a unique property of remaining integral even after the glass layer breaks. This property makes Armor Glass suitable for safety applications. Because it can be given other properties like acoustic and thermal insulation, special colours as well as added strength, it can meet all the architectural needs in a single product.

Fort glass is also a laminated glass product that is designed specifically to resist penetration in the event of burglaries and intrusions till such time as additional help reaches the premises. Fort Glass can handle forced entry, ballistic assaults, bomb blasts and explosion shocks and vibrations. Different products are available for the level of security sought for the specific project.

Décor glass is a product that achieves superior finish, achieved by high levels of precision while processing. Mirrors, panels, partitions and furniture use Décor Glass. Sejal's decorative mirrors are double coated and copper free with bevelled edges. Pre-laminated board frames are used rather than metal frames that can corrode and damage the mirror. Further PVC tapes are used to protect the mirror from harsh weather conditions.

Bathroom accessories like the Oyster range of glass basins are also popular for interior design today. Matching sets of basin, stand, mirror and shelf make it possible to create an elegant bathroom interior using high quality glass.

Initiatives

Today the Sejal Group not only supplies glass, but also provides engineering assistance, calculations and designs for its application. It is catering needs of very reputed buyers such as, Raheja Group of Companies, Reliance Group of Companies, Konkan Railway, BEST Undertaking, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Blue Star India Ltd. etc. Sejal has its marketing team operating all over India with its respective branch offices at Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Ahmedabad and Pune.

Recently, Sejal was the first Indian glass processing company to participate in an International Exhibition held at Germany in October 2002 and 2004, and has started receiving enormous and massive enquiries from overseas market. We have also participated in the recent Glasstech Asia 2005 held in Nov/Dec 2005 at Bangkok, Thailand.

Interior and Exterior Decorative Glasses
An additional channel of the group called SEJAL INTERNATIONAL LTD was established in the year 2003 to deal with overseas customers, mainly for building materials. The product range of this company is ceramic tiles, vitrified tiles, borders, mirrors, glass wash basins, hardware, structural hardware, glass accessories, etc. Recently, the group has forayed into insurance and founded a new establishment SEJAL INSURANCE CONSULTANTS LTD.

Having established its mark in retail and processing glass line, Sejal group has promoted a Public Limited company i.e. SEJAL FLOAT GLASS LTD. to manufacture plain Float Glass. This company will be listed as public limited with the total investment of around Rs. 500 crores. This is pat of the backward integration of the Sejal business. The plain Float Glass is the basic raw material for the glass processing industry i.e. both for SEJAL GLASS CRAFT PVT LTD and SEJAL ARCHITECTURAL GLASS LTD.