Incorporated in Oct.'83 as a private limited company, Venlon Polyester Film (VPFL) was promoted by C D Datwani. It was converted into a public limited company in Jul.'87. VPFL manufactures polyester film (BOPF). It set up its project in 1986-87 in Belwadi, Karnataka and went public with an equity issue of 10.10 lac shares, aggregating Rs 1.01 cr, to part-finance its project. The basic raw material required by the company is polyethylene terephthalate (PET) chips, available indigenously. VPFL's PET chips plant with a capacity of 8000 tpa was commissioned in Mar.'95. With the implementation of this backward integration project, VPFL will be able to effect savings in the raw material costs in the manufacture of film to a substantial level. VPFL has set up a metallising and lacquering packaging unit to make polyester film. Its metalising plant commenced trial runs from 1997-98. The company is now in the process of setting up a state of the art technology formaldehyde plant with production capacity of 15500 tpa. A 1500 tpa coating plant is also being set up to produce high value added coated films suitable for stamping foil, reprographic film, masking films, lamination of PET films with aluminium, nomex etc. During the year 2000-2001 the company has installed Formaldehyde Plant and trial production were also commenced.