In 1974 a visionary named Usmangani R Shaikh, with science academic background identified the unfulfilled needs of then flourishing textile industries of Ahmedabad for carbon products used for electircal and mechanical applications.
Instantaneously making the most of his technical flair, management skills and risc taking attitude and available team, he embarked on a project to manufacture carbon components like carbon brushes, seal rings and all the carbon products required for various textile machineries of then period. The project named GUJARAT CARBON PRODUCTS started in a small room and with a single work station but with a broad vision, well defined mission, set goals and accurate planning and controlling.
This was earliest impetus by someone in this industry toward which very few people were familiar. Raw material procurement was the biggest problem and equally problematic was the availability of tools and machinery to be used for this unfamiliar material. Striving through these known and numerous unknown problems he succeeded in satisfying the customer need and could establish himself as a pioneer in manufacturing and supplying industrial carbon products in entire Gujarat state.
In 1995 second generation equipped with fresh talent and modern skills and inheriting the experience and know-how of parent, commenced additional project with a new company to provide a thrust which still continues.
Progression was now at the forefront and still continues. By day and night, months and years the affair which started in a small room, have snowballed today into an organisation named GRAPHICARB PRODUCTS- AN ISO 9001-2015 certified company which is the only and the biggest company in Gujarat-INDIA to make carbon products for mechanical and electrical application for all the industries and having stretched value chain from raw material to finished product stage.
Today Graphicarb Products boasts of manufacturing all the products made out of carbon-graphite using minutely selected raw material, state of art machineries, well defined standard operating procedures, best possible factory layout, adequate land space, precision and accurate measuring instruments and stringent quality policy.
Company today looks ahead for a bright future and is commited in serving the needs of its customers satisfactorily. Every day with continual improvement policy, organisation is making every effort towards betterment and success through one and only one policy “Growth through customer satisfaction”
Elemental carbon exists naturally in many parts of the world in the forms of graphite and diamond. When mined, Graphite is not particularly useful as an engineering material, because of its softness , high impurity level and limited size. The manufacture of carbon and graphite has developed for over three-quarters of the century with the properties of the resulting products being considerably improved over those of the natural material. Carbon has been long established as a prime material for one of the rubbing pairs in a mechanical seal , bearings and many sliding applications of dry and wet running conditions. Continuous developments have kept pace with the increasingly severe requirements of the application.
By judicious selection of raw materials , and by using a variety of manufacturing processes , carbon and graphite can be Modified to give a range of properties suitable for different sliding applications. The raw materials are selected from naturally occurring graphites , from which some or all of the inorganic impurities have been removed. The original materials include coke derived from coal sources , residues taken from oil distillation (petroleum cokes) , and carbon blacks which are obtained from the burning of oils and gases in limited supplies of air.
The raw materials are powdered and bonded together with a pitch or tar , and then moulded under pressure to form a convenient size and shape. The resulting product is fired in a protective atmosphere , to approximately 1000 C. During this process , the tar and pitch are converted to a coke thereby cementing the particles of the other raw materials together to form a cohesive mass. Such a product is known as carbon-graphite.
Carbon and Graphite materials that are produced by this means are porous. The properties however are modified by impregnation with synthetic resins or metals. The impregnants confer increased strength , lower permeability and improved wear resistance and with some base materials both reduce and stabilize friction.
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