Q What are the major offerings of Sarva Foam to the market? Could you take us through your success journey.
Sarva foams started its journey in 2011 in Bhopal. So, from its humble beginnings in the last 13 years since its inception, the company has emerged as a leader in the rebounded foam category in India. Simultaneously, Sarva has seven manufacturing plants spread across 5 different states in India, from where it caters to customers across the length and breadth of the country.
Q How are you meeting the demand for target customers?
Our customers are generally large mattress manufacturers to whom we supply these rebounded foam sheets and cores. The combined installed capacity at Sarva, across the units, would be about 20,000 tons per annum. Starting with Bhopal in 2020, Sarva quickly expanded across states, launching plants in Silvasa and Hyderabad amidst the peak of COVID-19. In 2021, operations extended to Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, followed by a southern expansion in 2022, establishing two manufacturing units in Tamil Nadu’s Hosur.
Q Other than recycling PU Waste, What are the other sustainability efforts or initiatives that you’re planning?
Sharing very interesting statistics to support this, for every one KG of foam that we recycle, we save about 0.47 KGs of carbon from being emitted into the atmosphere. So that way, last year, we sold about 15,000 tons of bonded foam across our combined units which resulted in almost saving about 7 odd 1,000 tons of carbon from being emitted into the atmosphere. Globally, there is a significant problem with the excessive generation of foam trims. A large part of them either end up in landfills or are being incinerated, and the percentage of recycling is still very low. So for us, this is not only a mission, but it’s also an opportunity area as well where we continuously add capacities and increase our recycling capabilities.
Q How are you contributing to the ISPF sustainability programs of #PhenkoNahiRecycleKaro?
So now in India, we have been actively participating in the ISPF programs of recycling use and end-of-life mattresses as well. We have been doing pilots, been in talks with the local government, to also incentivize this program and we’ve been through ISPF and other stakeholders and companies, we’ve also been part of this journey that the entire industry has undertaken to educate the end customer on the benefits of changing their mattresses frequently. As the customer becomes more sensitized and aware, you would end up having more and more mattresses to recycle, which would also involve having a supply chain which supports this initiative. So we are also working to have recycling centres. We already have 7 units across, like I mentioned and 7 manufacturing vehicles placed strategically. So, they are placed in a manner where each unit also acts as a recycling center in itself.