Ahimsa Industries was formed by Ashutosh Damubhai Gandhi and Lalit C Shah on January 24, 1996. Ashutosh Damubhai Gandhi & family bought over Lalit C Shah’s shares in 1999-2000. Initially, the company was a merchant export company only. It was mainly focusing on exports of sugar confectionery machinery, moulds & plastic processing machinery. Ashutosh Damubhai Gandhi & family bought 49% of share of s General Additives in 2004-05. General Additives is a food & pharma flavor making unit based at Andheri, Mumbai. Along with merchant export activity, the company decided to go for a Greenfield manufacturing project at Ahmedabad. At world famous K show in Dusseldorf Germany, it booked world’s latest Husky, all electric PET Preform injection molding system in October 2010. The company decided to go for Indian beverage market offering world class PET preforms made on latest Husky equipment.

The company started its commercial production of PET Preform with 3 start Alaska neck preforms on HPET 180 in December 2011 under Greenpet brand. Due to better preform design & good manufacturing practice, Greenpet got recognition throughout India. Greenpet is now approved preform with Railneer, Bisleri, Kingfisher, Royal Stag etc national & multinational brands. Beauty of Greenpet quality is known in beverage world, which brought weight of pet bottles down drastically.

Business area of the company

The company manufactures and own greenpet brand for its superior quality Preforms. This results in a smooth finish, flash free, tailless and uniform wall thickness preform with high clarity, dust free and near zero 'AA' level. It also undertakes custom jobs for MNCs and customers with large orders. The company is also engaged in trading of textile and clothing products (like suiting & Shirting, dyed & grey fabric etc.) during this year from its Bhiwandi Branch.