With their commitment to create and deliver superior products and services, ALCON Anil Counto Enterprises has been granted a first license by BIS on an All India basis for manufacturing ALCCOFINE
ALCON, Anil Counto Enterprises, boasts 5 major business verticals –construction, hospitality, manufacturing, trading and infrastructure / logistics. Alcon has been a pioneer in the construction business in Goa with a track record of successfully completing large number of projects since inception. Their expertise in construction, developing exclusive properties, has given them the competitive edge in building residential and commercial spaces, hotels and resorts.
Their success in the construction field led to joint ventures with ACC Limited and Ambuja Cement. The first resulted in a clinker grinding and cement packing unit at Surla, with a capacity of 500 TPD. The second venture was a first in Goa – the production of Ready Mixed Concrete. They have two plants each in North and South Goa. The third venture with Ambuja Cement Limited produces Microfine products for Concrete sustainability and durability.
They then went ahead in setting up a full-fledged modern research facility in Kundaim, Goa. It was inaugurated in 2018 along with the Green Building Centre. GBC encompasses all components of an ecosystem, developing applications utilizing industrial waste/by-products and also collaborating with educational institutions like IIT Goa, IIT Mumbai, Goa College of Engineering to provide a platform to students to develop a practical industrial outlook.
BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards), is the national standard body of India established under the BIS Act, 2016 for the harmonious development of the activities of standardization, marking and quality certification of goods and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. BIS has been providing traceable and tangible benefits to the national economy in a number of ways – providing safe reliable quality goods, mitigating health hazards to consumers, promoting exports and imports substitutes, control over proliferation of varieties etc. through standardization, certification and testing.
BIS has granted first license on the All India basis for manufacturing “Microfine Ordinary Portland cement and ultrafine ground granulated blast furnace slag. The standards for above products are IS 16993:2018 and IS 16715:2018, respectively, which have been published, recently. The licenses for above products have been granted to M/s Counto Microfine Pvt Ltd, Pissurlem Industrial Estate, Goa.
Grant of licenses for these products will ensure the availability of certified goods to the common consumers, which bring with them quality and efficiency along with reliability.
The products were researched, developed and patented by AlcolabIndia LLP, a group company of ALCON. They are manufactured under the brand name Alccofine.
Anil Counto says, “At Alcon, we are proud to inform, that our company Counto Microfine Products Pvt Ltd, has the honour to receive the first licence in India of Microfine Cement and Microfine Cement additive manufacturing from the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).
It is really a vindication of our belief to innovate and make a green niche product from an industrial by-product considered as an environmental hazard.
We worked hard in our labs in Goa to conceive and make these products, patent them and produce them at our company at Pissurlem Industrial estate.
It took a lot of time and relentless efforts from our team to reach this stage where these products have become one of the world’s best choice for critical construction activities under the brand name Alccofine.
This BIS certification and licence, strengthens our resolve to innovate more such products at our R&D centre which is also a DSIR approved facility.
It makes us feel proud that we did this innovation in Goa and opened a new avenue of research in Microfine and Nano domain.”
Alccofine 1203 is a patented product being added in small doses in any of the concrete to achieve early strength as well as final strength with enhanced durability parameters and can be used with any type of cement (PPC, OPC, and PSC). Alccofine 1203 is a perfect choice for high performance high strength concrete for Durable RCC structures due to its unique composition and particle size distribution.
Alccofine 1100 is a series of micro cement products which are used in unique critical applications like Soil Stabilisation, curtain/permeation grouting of dams, fissured rock grouting, injection grouting for cracks etc. This range of products provides solutions for durability and strength due to the controlled quality parameters to get best results.
Almost all Metro Rail projects in India, Mumbai Trans harbour projects, various NHAI Bridges, numerous CPWD projects, Critical Tunnels for rail/road under extreme conditions, High Rise Structures, Refinery projects, Marine structures, Caverns, Precast Industries, structures in aggressive environments etc. have used Alccofine. The product has increasing demand in international market, as well.
The product is a perfect example of an Industrial by-product being converted into a usable, unique product by research in India. This Green product is patented and now finds extensive use in critical civil engineering structures of all kinds. Atal Setu on river Mandovi, and the new bridge under construction over Zuari river are also using this product.
This Green product is patented and now finds extensive use in critical civil engineering structures of all kinds. Atal Setu on river Mandovi, and the new bridge under construction over Zuari river are also using this product.
