Organises an interactive session for the children at the venue
April 21 2016, 17.55 PM IST || Pocket News Alert
Chandigarh, 21st April: Finolex Industries Ltd., India’s largest PVC pipe manufacturer and second largest PVC resin manufacturer who is an Associate Sponsor for the Rising Pune Supergiants this IPL season, invited the players of the team to meet children admitted at the paediatric ward at KEM Hospital. The players present at the hospital were Ajinkya Rahane, Irfan Pathan & Ishant Sharma. The players interacted with the children by playing games & sharing their experiences on and off the field. The players saluted the unbreakable spirit of the kids and encouraged them to keep fighting! The kids wished the players luck for the remainder of the season.
Finolex Industries Organises meet and greet for the children of KEM Hospital with IPL Pune Rising Supergiants players
Finolex Industries organises meeting for children with players of IPL Pune Supergiants
Led by its mission of ‘welfare and happiness for all’’, Finolex Industries Ltd. and Mukul Madhav Foundation, organized this event to showcase a change of environment for the children at KEM hospital, giving them a break from their mundane life & building beautiful memories for them, which would be cherished throughout their stay at the hospital. Mukul Madhav Foundation, the CSR partner of Finolex Industries Ltd. has been associated with several reputed hospitals since the turn of this century and is constantly working on improving the quality of medical treatment being provided to children and women. In the year 2000, MMF set up a Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit, a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, a Children's Ward & an OPD at the KEM hospital, Pune.
Speaking on the occasion, Mrs.Ritu Chhabria, Managing Trustee, Mukul Madhav Foundation shared, “I am glad that we got talented and popular players like Rahane, Pathan and Sharma to meet the children at KEM today. The kids were absolutely thrilled and we are happy to have been able to give them this platform. I would like to thank KEM Hospital for hosting us.”
Talking about the partnership with the Indian Premier League, Nitin Kulkarni, President, Sales & Marketing, Finolex Industries said, “Brand Finolex Industries has its roots in Pune but we are a prominent national brand known for our quality and services. It made sense for us to be seen at a platform like the IPL and support the team in this new age cricket which promotes and cultivates talent.Finolex has sponsored the Pune team since 2011 and was excited to continue the association with this new team as well.We believe that business and sports like cricket, have much in common, with the success of both hinging on team effort, strategy and partnership. This initiative has given us and our partners some great memories and valuable lessons in team work. The spirit of the kids and the players much like everything Finolex does was Unbreakable” He further added, “The Rising Pune Supergiants are extremely talented and passionate about the game. We are proud to have partnered with them and wish them the very best while continuing to deliver unbreakable performances on the pitch!”
The players enjoyed this time off the field, creating fond memories with the children. Ajinkya Rahane spoke after the event, “It was such a delight to meet the children. Their meeting with us was all smiles and full of joy. Seeing their happiness took away all our tensions. The experience was extremely refreshing and I am glad that Finolex Industries Ltd. is associated with such initiatives and is helping the cause of healthcare in the country. I would love to meet these kids again.”
About Mukul Madhav Foundation (MMF)
Mukul Madhav Foundation (MMF), is a charitable trust established in 1999. FIL and MMF have partnered in a journey to create a better society and help the community at large. Finolex Industries has been actively contributing to the social and economic development of the underprivileged in the villages in and around its plants situated at Ratnagiri in the state of Maharashtra and Masar in the state of Gujarat. Special focus has been placed on education, health care, community development, environment and self-development.
About Finolex Industries:
Finolex Industries Limited, headquartered in Pune, is the market leader in the supply of PVC pipes & fittings for the agricultural and urban sector that includes housing, industry and construction. Through our unique expertise, we have been able to focus on the concept of water management, which will become even more crucial in the coming years.
We are India’s largest backward integrated PVC Pipes and Fittings’ manufacturer with a production capacity of 2, 50,000 MT per annum. Our state-of-the-art manufacturing plants at Ratnagiri, Urse in Pune and Masar in Gujarat help us to provide significant resources to serve our customers better. Our own resin manufacturing facility in Ratnagiri, set in technical collaboration with Uhde GmbH, Germany with Hoechst technology, and spread across an area of 650 acres of land, provides a consistent supply of superior quality resin to our plants which guarantees top line quality products. Our open sea cryogenic jetty, the first of its kind in the Indian private sector, has been the hallmark of our PVC complex. We are the first Indian PVC Pipes manufacturer to have been awarded the IS/ISO 9001-2008 certification.
We consistently produce only the highest quality products and provide exceptional service in order to maximize customer satisfaction. We are marching ahead in innovation and technology bringing forth new products and solutions by continuously increasing our production capacity. This in turn aids us to meet our strategic goals for the future. We pride ourselves in being able to maintain and constantly improve living standards through our product offering as we serve the growing needs of our nation by remaining committed to our core values of providing impeccable quality, products and services.
Our major strength lies in our skilled workforce. We recognize and attribute our operating excellence and success to our employees. We have an extremely strong presence throughout the country, with a wide network of over 16,000 dealers and sub-dealers who work as our extended arm in bringing our wide range of agriculture, plumbing and sanitation pipes, fittings and solvent cement to customers. Our core values of quality, trust and integrity help us build an unbreakable bond with our customers and stakeholders.
We believe in performance with purpose and are deeply concerned about society and our community. We have been actively working along with Mukul Madhav Foundation, our strategic CSR partner, in contributing to the social and economic development of the underprivileged sections of society in and around our plants in Ratnagiri, Pune and Masar with special focus on education, healthcare, community development, environment and self-development. Our focus is on women and children, thus, enabling the deprived to improve their quality of life through good education and accessible healthcare facilities. We strive to seek a way to connect our urban population with the rural and urge people to pledge to save water and the environment.
We have been awarded India’s most Trusted Brand in the category “Manufacturing - Pipes” by Brand Trust Report, “Excellence in CSR” by Amity Global School, “Support and Improvement in Quality of Education” by Bluedart Global CSR Excellence & Leadership Awards, “Best Innovative CSR Practices in Education” by India CSRand recently recognised by the Economic Times as “Top 100 Brands in the Architecture and Design Sector.”
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