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COVER STORY We will offer every support to the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Roots Multiclean Ltd (RMCL) started manufacture of mechanised cleaning equipment in the early 1990s through a techno-financial collaboration with Hako Werke, Germany. The alliance became one of the most successful in the Indian industry. Today, RMCL has grown into a leader in the Indian cleaning equipment manufacturing industry and has a significant market presence in the world market. Its domain expertise spans design, development and manufacture of cleaning equipment. VARUN KARTHIKEYAN R, MANAGING DIRECTOR, ROOTS MULTICLEAN responded to CONSTRUCTION OPPORTUNITIES queries on the role played by his organisation in the country’s cleantech market. Tell us about the role played by your (RMCL) ventured into the manufacturing cleaners, mops and trolley systems etc. We company in the clean environment space of mechanised cleaning equipment’s in also have a specialised range of products and tell us about the various products India way back in 1990. For more than two for municipality road cleaning which and solutions you offer? decades we have been manufacturing and are real heavy duty truck mounted road Understanding the need for cleanliness selling cleaning machines for sweeping, sweepers to clean very large areas. and hygiene, Roots Multiclean Ltd scrubbing, vacuuming and general cleaning. These machines are in use in Give us an understanding of your all types of industries like engineering, manufacturing facilities, their capacities, automobile, food processing, pharma, and investments? hotels, hospitals, highways, railways, Our state of art manufacturing factory has airports and in defence establishments. a built up area of 85000 sqft. Our factory We have a huge variety of machines is located at Kovilpalayam which is 35 specific to the application and the km away from the city of Coimbatore. Our cleaning requirements. For example, shop floor has state of the art equipment we have a range which is specific to which comprises sheet cutting machines, sweeping open areas like roads, alleys, bending machines, array of welding streets, walk ways, parking lots and stations and semi–automated powder another which is meant to scrub all types coating unit. We produce over 150 varieties of floors like epoxy, marble, tiles, granite of cleaning machines from our factory. etc. Depending on the size of the area we We also conform to the highest quality recommend a smaller machine or a bigger systems and standards in par with other one so that the area can be cleaned in a international companies of the same field. quick and a cost effective manner. We We are ISO 9001, ISO 14001 & OHSAS also have a wide range of other products 18001 certified. We have a very strong R&D like commercial and Industrial vacuum and continue to invest heavily in research 18 construction opportunities|NOVEMBER 2014