SUMMER INTERNSHIP TRAINING REPORT

IN

KURIAN ABRAHAM PRIVATE LIMITED

Submitted by

G.SELVANESAN

Register No: 098001120029

In partial fulfillment for the award of the degree

of

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

IN

DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

RANGANATHAN ENGINEERING COLLEGE

JUNE 2010

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 RANGANATHAN ENGINEERING COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

SUMMER INTERNSHIP TRAINING REPORT

JULY 2010

This is to certify that the project entitled

SUMMER INTERNSHIP TRAINING REPORT

is the bonafide record of project work done by

G.SELVANESAN

Register No: 098001120029

of MBA (FINANCE & MARKETING) during the year 2009-2011.

Project Guide Head of the Department

Submitted for the Project Viva-Voce examination held on

Internal Examiner External Examiner

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 DECLARATION

I affirm that the project work titled SUMMER INTERNSHIP TRAINING

REPORT being submitted in partial fulfillment for the award of MBA (FINANCE &

MARKETING) is the original work carried out by me. It has not formed the part of any

other project work submitted for award of any degree or diploma, either in this or any

other University.

(Signature of the Candidate)

G.SELVANESAN
Reg No: 098001120029

I certify that the declaration made above by the candidate is true

(Signature of the Guide)

Mr.T.LAKSHMANAN
LECTURER

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First, I am very thankful to the Almighty for showering the Blessings throughout
my life. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to my beloved parents who have
sacrificed a lot for my future. This support was the foundation stone for my efforts.

I acknowledge my sincere thanks to Prof.P.L.N.RAMESH, M.Tech., Ph.D.,

Principal, Mrs.S.JOTHILATHA, MBA., M.Phil, Head, Department of Management
Studeis, Ranganathan Engineering College, for giving me the opportunity to do my
Postgraduate Degree course in this renowned institution and providing facilities to carry
out the project work.

I am grateful to Mr.T.LAKSHMANAN MBA.,PGDD., Lecturer, Department

of Management Studies, the internal guide for timely suggestions and constant
encouragement and support that led to the accomplishment of the project.

I extended my thanks to all the faculty members, Department of Management

Studies who helped me either directly or indirectly to complete this project.

I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to my friends for their useful tips that helped
me to complete this project successfully.

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 1.2 INDUSTRY PROFILE

Gloves are of great antiquity and their story goes back to prehistoric times. They
were worn by cavemen to protect their hands and took the form of bags resembling a
primitive type of mitten-a glove with fingers and a gauntlet covering the forearm.

A glove (Middle English form Old English golf) is a type of garment which
covers the hand of a human. Gloves have separate sheaths for each finger they are called
thumb; if there is an opening but no covering sheath for each finger they are called
“fingerless gloves”. Fingerless gloves with one large opening rather than individual
openings for each finger are sometimes called gauntlets. Gloves which cover the entire
hand but do not have separate finger openings or sheaths are called mittens. Mittens are
almost always warmer than gloves made of the same material because finger maintain
their warmth better when they are in contact with each other. As well, the reduced
surface area means that there is less heat loss. Gloves were created by North Haibach.

There is also hybrid of glove and mitten which contains open-ended sheathes for
the four fingers (as in a fingerless glove, but not the thumb) and also an additional
compartment encapsulating the four fingers as a mitten would. This compartment can be
lifted off the fingers and folded back to allow the individual fingers ease of movement
and access while the hand remains covered. The usual design is for the mitten cavity to
be stitched onto the back of the fingerless glove only, allowing it to be flipped over
(normally held back by Velcro or a button) to transform the garment from a mitten to a
glove. Andrew Head can transform from a mitten to a glove as well.

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 Gloves can serve to protect and comport the hands of the wearer against cold or
heat physical damage by friction, abrasion or chemicals, and disease; or in turn to
provide a guard for what a bare hand should not touch. Latex, nitrile rubber or viny 1
disposable gloves are often worn by health care professionals a hygiene and
contamination protection measures. Police officers often wear them to work in crime
scenes to prevent destroying evidence in the scene. Many criminals also wear these
gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints, which makes the crime investigation more difficult.

1.2.1 Fingerless gloves

Fingerless gloves (or glove letters also known as globs in some parts of East
Yorkshire) are garments worn on the hands which resemble regular gloves in most ways
except that the finger columns are half-length and opened, allowing the tops of the
wearer’s finger to emerge through.

Fingerless gloves are often padded in the palm area, to provide protection to the
hand, and the exposed fingers do not interfere with sensation or gripping. In contrast to
traditional gloves, often worn for warmth, fingerless gloves will often have a ventilated
back to allow the hands to cool; this is commonly seen in weightlifting gloves.

Fingerless gloves are useful for bakers and where dexterity is required that gloves
would restrict. These gloves are not particularly used in cold weather, as the exposed
finger numbs. Cigarette smokers and church organists often use fingerless gloves. Some
gloves include a gauntlet that extends partway up the arm. Cycling gloves for road
racing or touring and usually fingerless.

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 Fingerless gloves are also worn by bikers as a means to better grip the handlebars,
as well as by state boards and rollerblades, to protect the palms of the hands and add grip
in the event of fall. Some anglers particularly fly fisherman, favor fingerless gloves to
allow manipulation of line and tackle in cooler conditions.

Fingerless gloves are usually leather and have a distinct appearance. Much like
rocker, jackets, they are sometimes worn by people who wish to display a certain sense
of rebellion, recklessness, “toughness” or general disregard for the standards of society
as. Michael Jackson, would wear a single glove on one hand leaving the other hand
gloveless.
Glove have been made of many materials including cloth, knitted or felted wool,
leather, rubber, latex, neoprene, and metal (as in mail). Modern gloves made of Kevlar
project the wearer from cuts. Gloves and gauntlets are also integral components of
pressure suits and spacesuits such as the Apollo/Skylab A7L which went to the moon.
Spacesuit gloves must combine extreme toughness and environmental protection with a
degree of sensitivity and flexibility if he astronaut is to do any manual work.

Gloves appear to be of great antiquity. According to some translations of Homer’s

The Odyssey, Laertes is described as wearing gloves while walking in his garden so as
to avoid the brambles. (Other translations, however, insist the Laertes pulled his long
sleeves over his hands). Herodotus, in The History of Herodotus (440 BC). Tell how
Leotychides was incriminated by a glove (gauntlet) full of silver that he received as a
bribe. Among the Romans also there are occasional references to the use of gloves.
According to Pliny the Younger (ca. 100). His uncle’s shorthand writer wore gloves
during the winter so as not to impede the elder Pliny’s work. During the 13 th century,
gloves began to be worn by ladies as a fashion ornament. They were made of linen and
silk, and sometimes reached to the elbow Such worldly accoutrements were not for holy
women, according to the thirteenth century Ancrene Wisse, written for their guidance.

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Sumptuary laws were promulgate to restrain this vanity: against samite gloves in
Bologna, 1294, against perfumed gloves in Rome, 1560.

A paris corporation of guild of gloves (gantiers) existed from the thirteenth

century. They made them is skin or in fur.

It was not until the 16th century that they reached greatest elaboration, however,
when Queen Elizabeth I set the fashion for wearing them richly embroidered and
jeweled, and for putting them on and taking them off during audiences, to draw attention
to their beautiful hands. In Paris, the gentiers became gantiers perfumers, for the scanted
oils, musk, ambergris and civet, that perfumed leather gloves but their trade, which was
an introduction at the court of Catherine de’ Medici, was not specifically recognized
until 1656, in a royal brevet Makers of knitted gloves which did not retain perfume and
had less social cachet, were organized in a separate guild, of bonnetiers century. Kitted
gloves were a refined handiwork that required five years of apprenticeship; defective
work was subject to confiscation and burning.

Glove which cover the entire hand but do not have separate finger openings or
sheaths are called mittens. Generally, mittens still separate the thumb from the other four
fingers. They are mostly wooly, and many of them have different colors and designs.

Not much is known about the origin of mittens. However, one account has it that
mittens were invented by George Washington during his winter encampment at Valley
Forge 1777-1778. When his troops complained of cold hands, he gave an order to use
what little, cloth his army had by making a “a standard glove, which, when made
without fingers, shall cover the entire hand. “The mittens were made quickly, and
sustained the continental army throughout the rest of the winter. Recently, a pair of
mittens from the Valley Forge campaign was sold at an auction for just under $55,000.

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Mark Twain wrote, “George Washington invented mittens just before the chopped down
the cherry tree.”

Embroiders and jeweled gloves also formed part of the insignia of emperors and
kings. Thus Matthew Paris, in recording the burial of Henry II of the England in 1189.
Mentions that he was buried in his coronation robes with a golden crown in his head and
gloves on his hands. Gloves were also found on the hands of King John when his tomb
was opened in 1797 and on those of King Edward I when his tomb was opened in 1797
and on those of King Edward I when his tomb was opened in 1774.

Pontifical gloves are liturgical ornaments used primarily by the pope, the
cardinals, and bishops. They may be worn only at the celebration of mass. The liturgical
use of gloves has not been traced bayonet the beginning of the 10 th century, and their
introduction may have been they were adopted as part of the increasing pomp with
which the Caroling ton bishops were surrounding themselves. From the Frankish
kingdom the custom spread to Rome, where liturgical gloves are first heard of in the
earlier half of the 11th century.
Latex Gloves, ubiquitous in surgery and forensics, were developed, by the
Australian Ansell company. It is also widely believed that vailla essence can preserve
gardening gloves during winter (and spring) months. The fabrics include: rubber, cotton,
wool and plastic.

In England after the Norman Conquest, royalty and dignitaries wore gloves as a
badge of distinction. The glove became meaningful as a taken; it became custom to fling
a gauntlet at the feet of the adversary, thereby challenging his integrity and inviting
satisfaction by duel. The glove to challenge personal battle became, and remained, an
integral part of English Law for 800 years. It was a right any free man could clam.

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 In the 12th Century gloves became a definite part of fashionable dress. During the
reign of Queen Elizabeth I, no well-dressed woman would appear in public without
them, Gloves were becoming more accessible to the common people and their popularity
grew.
In the 16th and 17th Centuries gloves were extravagantly ornamented; they were of
leather, linen, silk or lace and were jeweled, embroidered, or fringed. After the 17 th
Century however, the emphasis was on proper fit, and gloves became less ornamental.

Gloving centers began to develop on a wide scale from the 14 th and 15th centuries
onwards. By the 17th Century, London had become the hub of the glove trade on which
apprentices and journeymen, seeking a wider experience, converged.

Although their craft had been protected against foreign imports, from the reign of
Edward IV in 1462, controls became less stringent, and in 1826 the barrier against
imports was swept away in favor of the 19th Century Philosophy of free trade.

The freeing of trade had detrimental effects on the workers and their masters.
Between 1826 and 1866, the number of masters declined rapidly from 120 to only 40.
The great War brought an expanding engineering industry to the city and with its higher
earnings permanently altered the labour situation.

In the early part of the 19th Century, the methods practiced in the glove industry
were little different from those pursued for hundreds of years. There was a greater use of
capital and division of labour between who dressed and leather and the women who
sewed them. By the middle of the 9th Century the methods began to change.

The most significant of these was the establishment of glove sizes and method of
cutting, which was devised by a French Master glover, Xavier Jouvin (1800-1844). He

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made use of uniformly proportioned knives, graded for size, giving a constant shape for
the makers and establishment a reliable fit.

Formerly, gloves were regarded as contingency merchandise. To find a pair,

which fitted adequately, one had to try on several gloves. Now every hand could easily
find the pair for its size. Jouvin’s idea benefited from the development of high-grade
steel for the knives and the creation of the hand lever.

After the Great War, the development of the engineering industry with its higher
wages attracted young labour away from the traditional employer. The problems were
compounded by the large-scale imports of foreign made gloves, which were sold at
process below the cost of production in the UK. World War II bought about further
decline which has continued to the present day.
The wearing of gloves as a woman’s fashion accessory fell out of favour in the
latter decades of the 20th century. During the glove’s heyday in the 1950s. glove length
was dictated by the time of day. Ladies gloves for formal and semi-formal wear com in
three lengths for women: wrist (‘matinee’ length), elbow, and opera or full-length (over
the elbow, reaching to the biceps).

Numerous countries have undergone rapid transitions in their economic

environments. Yet, little is known about firms’ responses to such transitions. We use
field.

Collected data to study the evolution of eighteen large and diversified business
groups in Chile (1987-1997) and India (1990-1997). The chosen periods correspond to
significant deregulation in the primary markets in both countries. Conventional wisdom
suggests that the intermediation rules played by business groups ought to decrease
during these periods.

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 However, we find an increase in group scope, an increase in the strength of the
social and economic ties that bind together group firms, an increase in self-reported
intermediation attempts by the groups, and some evidence that these actions are
associated with improvements in accounting and stock-market performance of the group
affiliates. We suggest that the slow development of market intermediaries, in a manner
suggested by institutional economics, and the attendant lack of reduction in transaction
costs in primary markets, can explain thee findings.

Tamil Nadu has nevertheless over the years lost considerable ground and many
opportunities. This paper attempts to understand the factors underlying the loss of
dynamism of Tamil Nadu’s industrial economy.

The most expensive are full-length gloves custom-made of kid leather. Satin and
stretch stain materials are extremely popular and there are mass varieties well within the
average budget.

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1.2.2 Standards
There are a number of different European standards that relate to gloves. These
include:

 BS EB 388 – Mechanical hazards including Abrasion, cut, tear and puncture.

 BS EN 374 –2- Microorganisms
 BS EN 374 –3 - Chemicals
 BS EN 420 – General requirements for gloves includes sizing and a number of
health and safety aspects including latex protein and chromium levels.
 BS EN 60903 – Electric shock
 BS EN 407 – Heat resistance
 BS EN 511 – Cold resistance
 BS EN 11149 – Antistatic

Nowadays, most fashion gloves (except for fingerless gloves) are relegated to formal
wear. Many girls still wear gloves as part of “dressy” outfits, such as church on Easter
Sunday. Long gloves are very common accessories for teenage girls attending formal
events such as prom, cotillion, or formal banquets. In addition, elbow-length gloves are
almost ubiquitous were ladies at weddings and debutante balls.
Gentleman only wear fashion gloves on the most formal of occasions. This is
somewhat subjective, as men also may wear “fashion” gloves outside of whit tie
occasions. Some find it to be in personal style, to project their hands from allergens and
germs, or to remove themselves from physical contact.

Today gloves are made around the world. Most expensive women’s fashion
gloves are still made in France, with some made in Canada. For cheaper male gloves
New York State, especially Gloversville, New York is still a world centre of glove
manufacturing. More and more glove manufacturing is being in East Asia, however.

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 COMPANY PROFILE
Situated in the States of Kerala and Tamil Nadu in India,
Kurian Abraham Private Limited(KAPL) is part of the Ooppoottil Group of
companies. The Ooppoottil Group ventured into the field of rubber plantations in
1945 with the setting up of the Velimalai Rubber Co. Ltd.

The late Mr. Kurian Abraham started Kurian Abraham Private Limited as a
proprietary concern in the year 1955. The firm was engaged in marketing latex. In 1958
a factory was set up for processing latex. Today we are the largest processors of
centrifuged latex in India with an output capacity of 100 metric tones per day.
Expansion did not stop with just processing latex.

In 1986 the company ventured into the field of technically specified natural
rubber to process ISNR 20 (Internationally known as SMR 20). In 1989 a factory was
set up to manufacture surgical gloves and other forms of latex gloves. We take pride of
place as one of the leading manufacturers and exporters of latex based range of surgical,
examination, gynecological,industrial and household gloves. Besides capturing a major
market share in India, our gloves are exported to USA, Europe, South America, Middle
East and Africa. The new millennium has seen Kurian Abraham Private Limited embark
into the field speciality grades of pre-vulcanised lattices. We have a technical
collaboration with the internationally acclaimed Revertex of Malaysia to produce and
market their superior grades of pre-vulcanised lattices in India.

Latex

The late Kurian Abraham, set up a centrifuging plant with an early model of the De-
Laval latex separator (L 779) imported from Denmark having a total output capacity of
2055 kgs. It was among the first plants set up for standardized latex concentrates in
India that adhered to strict technical specifications. And, since then, Kurian Abraham
Private Limited (KAPL) has only grown. Kurian Abraham Private Limited now boasts
30 state-of-the-art Alfa Laval centrifuging machines (LRB 610) with a capacity of 100
metric tones per day translating into 3000 tones per month, a formidable leap from its
modest beginnings of a 200 tones per month capacity.

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 It has manufacturing facilities in Nagercoil in the Kanyakumari District of
Tamil Nadu and in Idukki District in Kerala while its 50% joint venture with the
Kottanad Plantation in Calicut handles all the latex processing for North Kerala.
Another noteworthy achievement of KAPL has been its foray into the global market.
The company's latex, sold under the KA Latex brand not only has a significant share in
the Indian market but is also exported to countries across the world such as the US,
Europe, South America, Turkey and Sri Lanka.

Environment

Active policies of environment friendly practices are followed, involving

employee training, resource conservation and material control. Effluents from the latex
plants and the glove plants are thoroughly processed and converted into usable water.
Part of this cleaned water is recycled for the factory operations and the rest is used for
irrigation at our vegetable farms situated within the factory premises. A series of
gasifiers have been installed to meet the energy requirements, for reducing the
dependence on non-renewable sources and for minimizing the toxic emissions.
Quality Policy

“To achieve customer satisfaction and improved business results, we are

committed to supply our products conforming to requirements of end-users and society
and continually improve the effectiveness of the quality management system”

The quality management established to ensure that the product consistently meets
customer as well as statutory and regulatory requirements applicable to medical devices
and related services.

Tom management is committed to develop, implement and maintain the quality

management system as well as continually improve its effectiveness. This is achieved by
communicating the importance of meeting customer as well as statutory and regulatory
requirements through training program and internal communication.

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 Quality objectives related to the quality management system are established at
organizational level as well as relevant functional levels.

The quality objectives established are received by managing director and during
management reviews to ensure that the objectives are adequate and appropriate to the
activities of the organization.

The quality objectives are updated or revised in accordance with the achievement
and changed customer requirements.

The organization chart is developed to established interrelation of all personal

who mange, perform and verify work effecting quality. Management to KURIAN
ABRAHAM has delegated authority and organizational freedom to carryout the
activities for which they are responsible.

The infrastructure needed to achieve conformity to product requirements is

identified and recorded in the resource plan. All the infrastructure including buildings,
utilities, process machines, inspection devices, standards and cods, software and
supporting services identified are proved.

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FOUNDER PROFILE:

Mr. Kurian Abraham

Hardly any company in India can claim the tradition and leadership of the
Ooppoottil Group in the field of latex processing and latex gloves production. The
group today has two feathers in its cap. India's largest latex concentrate processor and
the country's largest latex gloves producer. The trajectory of this exuberant growth
rising from the scratch to the zenith is exciting by any count.

The late Kurian Abraham, father of Mr. A Kurian, the present Managing Director of
Kurian Abraham Private Limited, set up a centrifuging latex plant with an early model
of the De-Laval latex separator (L 779) imported from Denmark, the daily output of
which was only 2,055 kg. This set in motion supply of standardised latex concentrate
from the estate sector of India with technical specifications.

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 Organisational Structure:

Managing
director

Director of Managrment
finance representative

Maket Impor Factory

Sales..
… depar.. manager

depatments Electronic Accounts ,

Quality
control data NGL
processing

Admin&pers Packing&
purchase laboratory production
onnal dispatch

electrical mechanical stores

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Product profile

Pre-Powdered
Surgicare
Latex surgical gloves Surgicare low pro
Kaltex

Powder free
Surgicare Plus
Latex Examination Pre-Powdered sterile and non-sterile
Power free sterile and non-sterile
Speciality Gloves

Latex Polymer Coated Glove Surgicare Prmier

Micro Surgical Gloves Surgicare Micro
Orthopedic Gloves Surgicare Ortho Pre-Powdered
Surgicare Ortho Powder free
Latex Double Glove Surgicare Dual
Latex Under Glove Surgicare Under Glove
Gynecological gloves Surgicare Gynecological Powder free and
Pre-Powdered
High Risk Gloves Surgicare High Risk Ambidextrous
Neoprene surgical Gloves Surgicare Neoprene
Co-polymer Gloves Surgicare Copolymer

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 Production department:

The manufacturing environment and process has been designed to achieve the
critical in built quality that is necessary in MEDICAL DEVICE requirements.

The factory has a clean dust free, manufacturing environment. The plant is
completely closed and the factory has controlled exit and entry points with positive air
filtered system for the manufacture of a MEICAL DEVICE. This ensures that the
gloves are uncontaminated with a low bio burden.

Production Department structure

Factory Manager

Head Supervisor

Shift Supervisor Shift Supervisor

Shift Supervisor I
II III

Objectives:

 Increase the production by 5% within a year;

 Maximize the use of resource with loss and reduce the wastage

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 Manufacturing Information
Flow Chart (Pre-Powdered Gloves)

RAW MATERIAL
QC ACCEPTED

Cleaning Coagulant Chemical Lubricant

Solution Preparation Dispersion for Preparation
Compounding

Qc Qc Qc Qc
Acceptance Acceptance Acceptance Acceptance

Latex
Compounding

Qc
Acceptance

Former Former Coagulant Coagulant Latex Partial Pre Air

Cleaning Pre Dry Dip Drying Dip Latex Leaching Dry
& Rinse Dry

100%
Inspection

Sterilizat Stripping Post Lubricant Post Cur

Packing Tumble
ion AQL heater solution leaching ing
drying
Acceptance

Sterile Non-Sterile

QA
Consignment Stripping
Acceptance

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In-House Compounding

Carefully selected Non-Toxic Rubber Chemicals with safe levels of concentration

are used for the processes. The compounded latex is further clarified to remove excess
chemicals if any. All raw materials used are quality Assurance inspected and only
materials of the highest standards are used.

Pre-Leach, Vulcanizing, Post Leach:

The beaded gloves are Pre-: Leached in 80ft. of treated hot water to wash off non
rubber particles and chemical residues that could otherwise remain on the glove and can
cause allergic contact dermatitis. The water used in the leaching tanks are treated to
prevent bacterial contamination and heated to improve leaching efficiency. The system
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includes four Pre-Leach tanks of hot flowing water which are constantly monitored to
meet required parameters.

The gloves are properly vulcanized to ensure best physical properties and to
reduce moisture content. It is Post-Leached again in 60ft. of hot following water at 70
80OC. This washes off much of the extractable Water soluble Latex Protein, Residual
Chemicals and other non-rubber particles.

To offer you the best Bio-Compatible Gloves, with Pre and Post Leaching
process, the consumption is over 150000 liters of bacteria treated water every day.
Extensive Pre-Leaching Post-Leaching and vulcanizing are some of the critical measures
taken to offer you a safer glove.
Powdering / Stripping:

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 Only imported, U.S.FDA approved Bio-Absorbable Dusting Power USP is used to
powder the gloves. The powder in the tanks are closely monitored and controlled for
bacteria build up and protein content. The powder content on the glove is monitored to
keep within levels as per standards of ASTM D-3577.

Vulcanizing / Tumbler:

To reduce powder content in gloves to less than 15 g/dm2 and reduce moisture
level to less that 0.75% the gloves are tumbled in a validated process cycle with
temperature and time critically controlled.

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 High powder content and moisture can result in Microbial Growth, causing
discoloration and unpleasant order.

High powder content and moisture can result in Microbial Growth, causing
discoloration and unpleasant order.

Powder Free Gloves

The powder free gloves are processed in a special, separate area. To produce
powder free gloves, the pre-powdered gloves are washed, chlorinated, Neutralized,
Rinsed and Dried. The extractable latex protein content of these gloves is less than 50
g/dm2.
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 Our plant also has the facility to make polymer coated powder free surgical gloves
on line which has a better donning facility.

Quality Control:

In addition to Watertight Test, each batch of glove is electronically tested fro

microspores. Even though the controlled production produces gloves with less 1%
penholders 100% inspection is being done, involving over a 100 skilled and trained
personnel to offer you a defect free glove with factory A.Q.L of less than 0.65, a as
against International Norms of 1.5.

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 Our glove is electronically tested for micro pores. This kind of electronic testing
detects micro pores that otherwise might hot be datable during watertight and airtight
test.
The well equipped laboratory has all the facilities and equipment to test quality of raw
materials, physical properties of gloves and protein content of gloves using a
Spectrophotometer. Estimation of protein is done for every batch of gloves, as per
ASTM-D5712 using Modified Lowry Method. The in-house Microbiological Laboratory
also monitors Bio-Burden level and sterility. The laboratory is equipped with laminar air
flow cabinet and is manned by trained and skilled microbiologists.

Packing:

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 A separate building is engaged for housing the packing section into which only
Quality Control passed gloves are allowed to enter. Packing Section is clean and dust
free with positive pressure filtered air system with controlled exit and entry points. It is
kept clean and fumigated at regular interval so to ensure low bio-burden level.

State-of-the-art packing Machines are installed for wall ting, pouching and sealing
the gloves automatically thereby reducing human contact with the gloves to minimum.
The wall ting machines prints and folds the wallets in-house thereby reducing
contamination.

The pouching machine is specially designed for automatic packing of gloves. It

incorporates skip sealing, photo electric cell for registration as well as a flexography
system for printing of batch and other manufacturing details.

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 Moreover, the pouching machines ensure an aesthetic packing system and the
integrity of the pouches. The entire process is done in a controlled and clean
environment. The end result-very little chance of contamination and a great degree of
hygiene. The packed gloves are one again quality assurance and passed for sterilization.
Sterilization:

State-of-the-art P.L.C controlled E.T.O. Sterilization plants with a double door

system are installed which is validated to EN 550 Norms. Each process cycle’s
efficiency is ensure that residual E.O. on the glove is low.

The carefully selected packing material used ensures that it is suitable to permit
E.O. sterilization and maintain sterility during transit and storage for the shelf life of the

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product. The sterilized gloves are tested for sterility in the in-house Micro Biological
Laboratory.

The finished goods are cleared by Quality Control Department and Quality
Assurance and undergoes consignment Audit which includes.

A Correctness of quality, type and sizes as per order

B Correctness in pairing
C Correctness of stamping particulars
D Correctness of pacing materials
E Correctness of making on pouch / box
F Conformance of specifications of the relevant grade of gloves
G Compliance to all previous inspection and test requirements.

Only the gloves which pass the specifications are transferred to the warehouses for
shipment.

Warehouse

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 We have a Large Warehouse with the capacity to store over Two Million Paris of
gloves. The warehouse is regularly pest controlled and fumigated to keep it
pestandinesect free.

The Master cartons are strapped with colored straps, with each color representing
a particular size. This allows instant identification of size to their clients.

The quality assurance passed gloves are container stuffed from the warehouse and
shipped all over the world.

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 Human resource department:

Here there are 500 workers tactfully doing their work. They are skilled and
technically qualified. Quality discipline is expected from all workers in their dress,
behavior and cleanliness.

Admin & Personnel

Dept

Electrical
Mechanical
maintanance/Electrica Stores/Store keeper
maintenance
l supervisor

Objectives :

 To offer equal opportunities to employee to realize his/her full potential.

 To select right person for the right job.
 To keep all channels of communication open and encourage formal
communication.
 To promote co operation and team spirit among the employees.
Functions:

 The personnel officer is the head of department.

 He co ordinate the training activities and controls the training records.
 Personnel officer is responsible for administration function.
 Electrical supervision is responsible for electrical maintenance and to
upkeep of records
 He approves new equipments/machines etc…
 Mechanical supervisor is responsible for mechanical maintenance and
upkeep of records .
 Store keeper is responsible for store in the chemical and raw latex material.
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 Role of personnel manager :

 Personnel role( requirement , training and development).

 Welfare role ( personnel & organization problems, canteen & transport
facilities, counseling, motivation and leadership);
 Clerical role.

Welfare of the workers:

 The company provided bus facilities to their employees.

 Facilities for storing and drying clothes during the working hours.
 Tea is supplied the workers at the time of interval.
 Safety measures are given the workers during work (helmet, gloves etc….) to
protect themselves from allergy;
 A room with water facilities is provided for the employees to have lunch and
rest.
 Training is given to the workers for first aid.
 Medical facilites and fees are paid for employees if he/she with and accident
inside the company.

Clerical role:

 Personnel manager is responsible for time keeping procedure and

administration of salary and wages of the organision.
 He establish a man & machine relationship.

Pension:

The employees receives the amount of pension after his/her retirement. In kurian
Abraham (p) limited 10% to 12% is given as employee contribution.

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Bonus:

The term bonus is an extra payment to the workmen over and above their normal
wages. ESI benefits are provided and employees; its main objectives is to maintain
frame peace and harmony between labour and capital by allowing the employees in
recognition of the establishment reflected by the contribution made by the capital
management and labour 20% bonus is given to the employees.

Incentives:

Incentives are variable rewards granted to employees according to the variations

in their performances. Incentives are a point of motivational factor that is imparing of
incentives to the workers for higher productivity and production.

Advantages:

 Reduce supervision .
 Better utilization of equipment.
 Reduce scrap.
 Reduce absenteeism and turnover.
 Increase output.

Types of incentives:

 Production incentives- it is paid on the basis of time and piece rate.

 Attendances incentives- it paid to the employees daily if he /she is present.

Training:

Types:

 On the job training.

 Apprentice training.
 Induction training.
 Self development training.

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Duties of a HR manager is

 Recruitment .
 Training of workers.
 Performance appraisal.
 Wage administration .
 Promotion/demotion.
 Incentives.
 Workers welfare

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Finance department:

The finance department is responsible for the financial functions and

activities of the company . it include preparation of budget. Appropriation of accounts,
re-appropriations, surrender and savings, control of expenditure and ways & means
position. Audit treasury administration taxes.

One of the major roles of the finance department is to identify appropriate

financial information prior to communicating this informantion to managers and
decision makers, in order that they may make informed judgements and decisions.

Finance also prepares financial documents and final accounts for managers to
use and for reporting purposes.

General manager is in charge for this department. He is responsible for arranging term
loans for purchasing of capital goods and short term loans for meeting the working
capital needs.

Objectives:

 To improve the financial performance of the concern.

 To find out the sourcs of finance for the functioning of the concern.
 To maintain a balance between the assets and liabilities that is to maintain proper
liquidity position.
 To improve the goodwill of the company by applying the finance properly and
prompt repayment of the loans.
 To attain the goals of profit maximaization and wealth maximaisation.

Sources:

The company has borrowed Rs. 1 crore from SBI.

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Accounts department:

 To maintain accounts properly.

 To enter each and every transaction in the respective books.
 The head office maintains all the accounts of the units to find out the total
company profit.
 To help the finance department ot arrange for funds.
 To help at the time of auditing with proper accounting records.
 To pay out the taxes properly.
Procedure:

Transaction

Entry book

Subsidiary book

Ledger

Trial balance

Trading Profit and loss account

Balance sheet

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Quality control department:

Lab incharge

Shift Chemist

Lab Assistant

Workers

Objectives:

 Reduce the consumptions of rubber per price of production by 5% within a

year.
 Reduce the maintenance cost of thermic-fluid heater by 5% within a year.
 Reduce the rate of defeat by 10 % from the current level.
 Improve on time delivery to 85%.

Function:

 Receiving inspection.
 In process inspection.
 Final inspection.

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Purchase department:

Managing director/purchase manager is responsible to authouize the master

list of purchased item;

 Import manager responsible for purchasing by importing.

 Purchase manager is responsible for purchasing of raw material and other items
from domestic source.
 Factory manager receives purchase requisition from store for purchase of
production material, maintenance and testing related materials,accessories &
spares.

Stores department

Purpose:

To systematic the receiving , storage, preservation and issue activities;

The received item are identified “ under best” marking / labels. Only
products cleared by quality control/ mechanical maintenance/ electrical maintenance are
taken into stock register. The received and accepted products are stored as per storage
plan.

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Sales department:

Objectives:

 On time delivery.
 Customer satishfaction.

Types of sales:

 Direct sales(direct to customer)

 Dipot sales (distributor).
 Export sales(direct and indirect sales)

South African countries—Tanzania,zambia, Kenya and also to sri lanka by kottayam

office.

Marketing department:

Structure:

Managing
director

Marketing
Head

Head sales

Export Domestic
marketing marketing

Objectives:

 To identify new markets for their existing product.

 To give better service to customer by reducing response time for enquires

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Responsibility for marketing manager:

 To handle customer complaints.

 Market development and introduction of products to prospective customer.
 Obtain customer feedback.
 Prepare contract review, check list etc…

Authority of the marketing manager:

 To fix target for distributors/dealers.

 To approve distributors/dealers.
 Control of customers supplied products

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Customer profile:

1. Bangalore Assisted Conception Centre

2. Bangalore Baptist Hospital
3. Bapuji Dental College Hospital, Davanagere
4. Bapuji Hospital Davanagere
5. Davanagere Heart Hospital, Davanagere
6. Columbia Asia Hospitals Pvt. Bangalore
7. Hosmat Hospital
8. Kasturba Hospital, Manipal
9. KLE Hospital, Belgaum
10. Manipal Hospital
11. M.S. Ramaiah Memorial Hospital
12. Narayan Hrudayalaya
13. Narayan Netralaya
14. St. Marthas Hospital
15. St, John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore
16. Workhadt Hospital Pvt. Ltd.
17. Bharath Earth Movers Ltd. Bangalore
18. Nimhans Hospital, Bangalore
19. HAL Hospital, Bangalore
20. Kidwai Memorial Inst. Of Oncology
21. Holdsworth Hospital, Mysore
22. Bharath Serums and Vaccines Limited
23. Bhaba Atomic Research Centre
24. BARC Hospital
25. Cipla Ltd
26. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
27. Glaxo Smithkline Pharma Ltd.
28. Godrej Memorial Hospital
29. K.J. Somayia Hospital and Research Centre
30. Nuclear Power Corporation Of India Ltd.
31. Pfizer Ltd
32. Reliance Life Science Pvt. Ltd.
33. Specialty Ranbaxy Ltd.
34. Metro Cash and Carry
35. J.K.White Cement
36. Grassim Industries Ltd.
37. TATA Ryerson Ltd.
38. Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

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39. MAHYCO Seeds Ltd.
40. Namdhari's Fresh
41. Nilgiris
42. Suretex Prophylactics India Ltd. (Ansell group)
43. TTK-LIG Ltd.
44. Hindustan Latex Ltd.
45. Kurlon Ltd.
46. Metropoli Overseas Ltd.
47. Carpet International Ltd.
48. Mayor & Co.
49. Shree Rubber Industries (P) Ltd.

50. Textile Rubber & Chemical Ltd.

51. Travencore Mat and Matting Company
52. Phoenix Yule Pvt Ltd.
53. Fenner (India ) Ltd.
54. Sundaram Auto Rubber Products
55. TVS Shri Chakra Tyres
56. Emerald Tyres
57. Bell Healthcare

58. Bombay Balloons

59. Cephas Medicals Pvt. Ltd.
60. Deogiri Latex Pvt. Ltd.
61. Enkay Rubber Company Pvt. Ltd.
62. Healthcare Products Ltd.
63. Helix Latex Industries
64. Paradise Rubber Industries
65. Rubek Balloons Pvt. Ltd.
66. Safeguard Contraceptives Pvt. Ltd.
67. Sisco Latex Pvt. Ltd.
68. Teleflex Medical Pvt. Ltd.
69. Dabur India
70. Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd.
71. Mitsubishi Oil Corporation
72. TATA Mines
73. Pune Municipal Corporation

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Achievement:

Head of our group Mr. A. Kurian accepting CAPEXIL's Special Export Award from the
Honourable Minister for Finance Mr. P. Chidambaram
A total growth rate of more than 5000% has been achieved in our operations. Our state of
the art factories integrates all modern machinery, thus allowing us to become a world leader in
manufacture of latex surgical gloves.

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Certificate of Merit for Exports for four consecutive years was awarded to us by CAPEXIL.
Our exemplary export performance has been recognized by the Government of India and we
have been awarded The Special Export Award for two consecutive years by CAPEXIL . We
have also been given Star Export House Status by the Indian Government. This speaks for
the company's commitment to produce a Quality product. Stringent Quality Standards have
earned the prestigious ISO 9001:2000 and CE Certification along with ISO-13485:2003
(certification of quality management systems, specifically for medical devices). We are also
registered with U.S.FDA (510K) and have the India Bureau of Standards' ISI Certification.

The products are accepted the world over and a few of the countries it is registered in are:
U.S.A. AUSTRALIA, EUROPEAN UNION, HUNGARY, POLAND, ROMANIA,
LITHUANIA, COSTA RICA, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, BRAZIL, CHILE and MEXICO.

We have been directly audited by the U.S. F.D.A. & our systems & practices have been found
to be in compliance.

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 CONCLUSION

Human Resource is the important and unique asset of an organization. Without

human resources the management could not achieve the target. So job satisfaction is
very important for retaining the employees in the organization.

From the analysis the overall job satisfaction level of employees in Kanam Latex
is found to be less. The level of satisfaction towards payment of salary, co-workers
relationship and relationship with the management, safety and healthy programs,
participation of the employees in management activities, opportunities to learn new
skills and new jobs, annual increase given by the company, compensation package etc.,
are found to be low. Hence the organization needs to concentrate on the above
mentioned factors.

The analysis helps the management to become aware of the needs of the employees and also for
indentifying the problems that may arise in the organization. If the management implements the
suggestions given by the researcher the job satisfaction of the employees will definitely
increase, which in turn leads to higher improvement in the organization and also it helps to
improve the profit and productivity of the organization.

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