Our Products
UCI Carbons with six strategically located manufacturing locations, has the product line to cater to the adsorption and purification needs that are required by most industries. From high porosity, low mineral steam based, acid washed powdered, activated carbons
Quality Standards
UCI follows strict guidelines of ISO 9001, Food Safety and Health Standards and GMP. With consistent supplies to the leading API and Bulk drug pharmaceutical and food companies, we ensure that first rate quality control and quality assurance. Our end-to-end quality control check points, have helped us establish a “Trust and Confidence” reputation, among leading corporations.
Our material is tested under strict supervision and control, to serve each customer’s individual requirements. Sampling and testing of material, is done after each stage within the production process. This ensures that we adhere to the high quality standards that we have set for ourselves. All tests are approved by ISI, IP, USP, & ASTM Standards.
Our Technology
UCI has state of the art manufacturing facilities, located strategically to tap the rich reserves of raw material. Supplying to the leading pharmaceutical and food companies, we work under the strict guidelines of ISO 9001 and vendor guidelines, of our Food and Pharmaceutical customers. To ensure a consistent quality, we have installed food proof systems to ensure that our manufacturing processes are not people dependent. With special focus on continues innovation and “kaizen”, we have mastered the art and science, of manufacturing and curatinag the highest quality activated carbon.
With a strong focus on environment, UCI Carbons has a goal, to ensure all of its facilities shift to 100% green technology, by 2015.
Raw Material
UCI with its strategically located facilities has rich reserves of pine based, softwood and babool based wood charcoal. We have recently tapped a rich bituminous coal reserve in the Northern Territory of India. The raw material is carefully screened, with stones and dust carefully removed, before it is sized, to ensure a consistent quality of activated carbon. Our vendor management system ensures top notch quality control on all incoming materials. While we ensure high standards on incoming materials, our dedicated vendor management team takes special care of innovation, process control and maintenance schedules, at our vendor sites.
With dedicated special allocations from the government, we specialize in high porosity, low impurity, pine based activated carbon.
Universal Carbons (India) has Recently setup state of the art steam activation automated plat.
The technology ensures the following
- Process control on temperature profiles, fees and output
- Uniform and consistent carbon quality
- Uniform weather proof output
- Real time reporting mechanism to ensure consistent and high quality production
- A consistent activated carbon means negligible bend of different sources of carbon
The activated carbon has already started showing brilliant results across our API/Bulk drug customers. In fact with similar Technical specifications across Bulk drug units we have received feedback of a consumption pattern of almost less than 50% of our previous supplies or other activated carbon purchases from local / international suppliers.
Here are the comparison of performance patterns of 55NS + supplied recently from our new plant vs. conventional activated powder carbon. Here is a graph of decolourisation / Efficiency % of conventional activated carbon vs UCI 55NS+. While conventional blended activated carbon initially shows promising results, over time the 55NS+ has a better average decolourisation %. The decoloursiation / efficiency is much better over a time frame in a filter bed ( T1 to T10 are time intervals of a batch)
Our Facilities
The UCI group comprises of 6 manufacturing setups with a combined capacity of 4000 MT under the names of:
- UCI: Oldest setup with a production capacity of 500MT per year. Prime product is acid washed powdered
- Rajindra Carbons: This is the largest setup with 8 kills, 12 acid washing tanks and a production of 2000MT per year. Prime productions are acid washed activated carbon, 12 x 40 Granular Carbon, 8 x 30 Granular carbon. Rajindra carbons enjoys a setup of 25 acres of land and inexhaustible supply of wood and wood charcoal. Rajindra carbons also owns farmlands to supply wood at ultra low costs all the year around.
- Sri Ram Industrial Carbons: This is the newest setup with State of the art washing, filtering and dying facilities. Sri Ram industrial Carbons will be shortly commissioned into a fully automated plant, the first of its kind for powered carbon in India. The new facility will be following the code of “Green Technology”.
- Century Industrial Carbons: Situated on the foot hills, Century Industrial Carbons enjoys the exclusive sanction of Pine Wood Charcoal. By using Pine wood charcoal, the plant is capabe of producing high meso and macro porosity carbon. This particular plant has the ability to achieve methylene blue values up to 450mg / g as well as low ash content.
- Unique Industrial Carbones: Located in the Northern most state of India, Unique Industrial carbons benefits from an endless supply of coal and Prime Wood. Unique unwashed and washed powdered carbons are produced, which are then supplied to a number of the major brand names of India.
- Utopia Carbons: Located in Rajasthan, Utopia enjoys the wide availability of Babool wood charcoal. Babool wood charcoal is perfect for steam activation and yields. The pore structure fosters optimum mesoporosity.
Packaging & Shelf Life:
Packaging of UCI’s Activated Carbons consists of Double Polythene Lines, laminated HDPE bags of 25, 30, 40, and 50 kgs or in fibre glass drums. Packaging can also be tailored to meet individuals requirements. This ensures the prevention of moisture as well as atmospheric contaminants and facilitates indefinite shelf-life.
Safety: Unimpregnated Carbon is insert and non-toxic, it is combustible, but not easily ignitable below 200 degree c, self ignition in air is at 300 degree c+.
Carriage: Steam Activated Carbon is not hazardous and excluded from IATA 395, IMCO CI. 4.2 and U.N. 1362
Acti-Fresh Air
A revolutionary product that can remove odors from your fridge, dust bin areas, storage areas or pretty much any enclosed space. It “removes” the odor and not just “masks” it like most other air fresheners. Acti Fresh Air contains special Activated Carbon or Carbo Activatus, which is a form of carbon that has been processed to make it extremely porous and has a very large surface area available for absorption of impurities. Due to its high degree of micro porosity, just 1 gram of activated carbon, has a surface area in excess of 500 m2.
The pores on the surface and deep inside, adsorb bad odor and moisture emitted from the items placed in the fridge, or elsewhere, ensuring you have an odor free and fresh environment.
