Nuchem Ltd. was incorporated on August 8, 1951 under the name of Rattanhand Harjasraj (Plastic) Ltd. In 1955 the company had technical collaboration with British Industrial Plastic Ltd. Birmingham England. In 1967 the company was converted into a public limited company with a new name Nuchem Plastic Ltd.

Nuchem is an environmental friendly diversified company having its registered head office at Faridabad, Haryana. Nuchem has nearly 1000 employees, over 45,000 shareholders and 800 trade associates. It is a technology driven chemical engineering company that uses a variety of chemical processes.

Nuchem is a pioneer in manufacturing urea & melamine formaldehyde moulding powders. It is also the market leader in manufacturing and marketing of MDF in India under the brand ‘Nuwud’. It has India's largest agro & plantation based MDF manufacturing facility situated at Tohana, Haryana with installed capacity of 60,000 cubic meter.

Nuchem is among India's leading companies providing waste water and effluent treatment systems. It specializes in removal of dissolved salts in water using advanced membrane based technologies, seawater reverse osmosis desalination sewerage recycling and STP/ETP technologies are its forte. Today, Nuchem is firmly established in the forefront of desalination industry in India and is one of the few companies in the world to successfully manufacture highly selective electro dialysis membranes.

The chemical division of Nuchem was established in 1955 for the manufacture of urea & melamine formaldehyde moulding powders for the first time in India. Today the division also manufactures UF resins & formaldehyde.

Nuchem established in 1996, India’s largest agro and plantation based medium density fibreboard manufacturing plant with technology bought from M/s.Sunds Defibrator AB, Sweden. The plant is situated at Tohana (Haryana State) and has an installed capacity of 60,000 cubic meter per year. The plant uses state-of-the-art technology.

The emphasis on growth through research and innovations has always reflected in Nuchem's philosophy. Its R&D centre was set up in 1973 and is fuelled by an efficient team of well qualified scientists and technologists. The R&D centre boasts to its fourteen patents and is regarded as the leading testing labs in Northern India.

Product range of the company includes:

The company produces primary materials that go into the manufacture of numerous products consumed by other industries: electrical, building & construction, lamination, pharmaceuticals, furniture, artifacts, consumer durables such as kitchen and tableware, machine building etc.

Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF) - for use by building and construction, furniture, industrial and handicrafts

Chemical Division

• UF Moulding Powders
• Prescol
• Formaldehyde

Water Technology - The company provides complete range of water treatment technologies:

• Micro Filtration (MF)
• Ultra Filtration (UF)
• Nano Filtration (NF)
• Reverse Osmosis (RO)
• Demineralization (DM)
• Iron Removal Filters (IRF

Achievements/ recognition:

• ISO 9001:2000 certified company
• All its products conform to IS Standards and the corresponding British and American Standards.