Leading SMEs of India 2020

E - 8 Leading SMEs of India 2020 Experts' View Brief background of the company and its operations: Our purpose is “To deliver clean environmental solutions and to create positive social and environmental impact” across 24 countries in South and South-East Asia. We develop and supply solutions to repurpose waste into usable material across various sectors (construction, mining, waste recycling etc.). To ensure easy availability of finance for our customers, our financing arm “Operall” enables financing for customers through loans, lease and tolling options (either directly or through our tie-up with financiers). We are also in the final process of launching our new initiative “doctor sand” – a certified marketplace for ethically sourced sand. We are CDE Asia Limited headquartered at Kolkata and have offices in Bangalore and Jakarta. We have 3 manufacturing units located in West Bengal, India and have warehouses in Jakarta, Bangalore and Gurgaon. What has been the success mantra of the company: Without a doubt, innovation is and will continue to be the undisputed success mantra of our Company. We are known in the industry to create innovative products which have a positive environmental impact with high Return on Investments for our customers (be it the technology to create M-sand, the perfect substitute of illegally mined river sand or the technology to effectively convert waste into usable sand and aggregates etc.). We have multiple patents to our name in India and other developed countries like Japan, Singapore etc. Kindly elaborate on your company’s innovation initiatives. What kind of outcomes have these initiatives helped the company derive? As mentioned earlier, innovation has been the foundation of our company’s success. We have a DSIR accredited state of the art Research Center approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology, where we continue to make significant investments. These have helped us to innovate Manish Madhogaria Executive Director Innovation is, and will continue to be, the undisputed success mantra of our Company. We are known in the industry to create innovative products, which have a positive environmental impact with high Return on Investments for our customers. Dun & Bradstreet