About A.B. Plastech

Since 1984 we prepared and serviced rally bikes and cars, and ran them ourselves. A rally is the hardest test of whether a machine is right — it survives the punishment or it doesn't, and it shows you exactly where. That is where our standard was set.

The work began in cars. In 1991 we opened Dazzle Car Care, an automotive repair shop in Bahadurgarh. In 1998 it became A.B. Automech, a Maruti authorised service station, and ran as one until 2012.

In 2013 A.B. Plastech began, and has been in continuous production since. The first product was a set of moulded labyrinth seals for conveyor idler rollers — a small part, held to a close tolerance. Those seals led somewhere we did not expect. Polyamide is hygroscopic: it takes up moisture, so it has to be dried correctly before it is used. Learning to dry one engineering material led to others — and to PET, which cannot simply be dried, because it has to be crystallized first. At the time we knew of no machine built in BHARAT that crystallized PET by infrared. So we designed one.

We did not begin at a drawing board. We went and looked — PlastIndia at Delhi and Gandhinagar, Chinaplas at Shanghai and Guangzhou, Plastivision at Mumbai, PlastAsia at Delhi — to see what already existed. It existed, and it worked, and it was out of reach: landed cost and customs duty put efficient drying technology beyond most Indian processors. That is why this machine was built here. Work began in August 2016, and the trials took 2½ years.

Cryst-O-Dry — our infrared rotary crystallizer and dryer — was launched at IndiaPlast in 2019, at the India Expo Centre, Greater Noida.

The range has grown since: Mix-O-Well mixers, Load-Well loaders, Roast-O-Dry for the food side, and SpectraCure IR-UV — recently ordered by a leading Indian food processor, designed, made to our drawings, and commissioned.

The Load-Well AVL venturi loader is where the loader range started. Everything we have learned about moving material since — how a receiver should come apart, where a sensor belongs, what an operator should never have to adjust — was learned on that machine first. We still build it, because for a certain kind of duty nothing else is as simple.

Our approach to design and manufacturing

Every machine needs attention over its life. What we control is how much attention it needs, and how easily that attention can be given.

Every machine is designed for manufacture and for assembly (DFM and DFA) from the first drawing. Simple assembly means simple dismantling on the day something needs attention. Where a part does eventually wear or fail, we specify standard components available locally, so a buyer is never left waiting on us to keep a machine running.

Safety is a design-stage decision. Controls, access and guarding are considered from the first drawing, so the machine is straightforward to run and safe to be around. Improvement is a continuous process, and we are always glad to incorporate a buyer's feedback into the next build.

Every agreement we enter is written in plain language, with our terms and conditions stated up front.

In-house design and manufacturing

Every machine we sell starts as our own drawing. It is designed at our works in Bahadurgarh, Haryana, BHARAT; its parts and components are made to our drawings by selected vendors; assembly and trials are done in-house. We own the blueprint of every machine we sell — which is why we can service it, defend it, and stand behind it.

A Cryst-O-Dry supplied to Nepal in 2020 is still in production. Over the years only consumable parts and a few electrical items have been replaced. Mechanically, the machine is sound.

Even our proportions are held to a standard: the golden ratio has shaped our machine design since the late 1990s — the same discipline is built into our own wordmark.

One of our designs holds an Indian patent, granted in 2018. Every filing, with its number and status, is listed in our IP Portfolio.