Anabond

Anabond is a company headquartered in Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai, India. It manufactures engineering adhesives and sealants which are used in automobile and engineering product manufacturing, electrical and electronic products manufacturing and maintenance of these equipments. Anabond was the first company in India to manufacture anaerobic adhesives and sealants.[1]

Anabond was established by J.Vijayakumar scientist from the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam in 1979 after he resigned from IGCAR.[2] Now it has over 200 people working in various functions. It has fully dedicated R&D centre at Perungudi, Chennai and production facilities in Chennai, Puducherry and Meghalaya . The R&D centre carries out research in different areas such as anaerobic adhesives (anaerobic sealants), epoxies, silicone sealants, and rubber-based adhesives. They also joined their hands with Indian Space Research Organisation and Defence Research and Development Organisation in developing products for them to be used in their space and missile programmes.[3]

The company has also set up joint venture with Revocoat, a unit of Axson of France and with Stedman for manufacturing dental composites. There are 24 dedicated scientists, 12 chemists and 8 supporting staff working towards developing various grades of adhesives, sealants, encapsulants, paints & speciality coating materials based on different types of polymeric systems such as epoxies, polyurethanes, silicones, acrylics, synthetic elastomers etc.