Capturing Potential to Maximum - Vikas WSP

Established in 1988, Vikas WSP is engaged in the manufacture and supply of guar gum powder, primarily for the Indian and international food industry. The company’s guar gum powder is used as a thickening and binding ingredient in bakery products, noodles, diet foods, ice creams, meat and fish products and sausage coatings. Besides use in pet food, it also offers guar gum for various technical applications such as oil/gas wells drilling and fracturing, textile printing, mining, explosives and paper-making applications.

Could you tell us something about the company?
Vikas WSP is one of the world’s leading providers of guar gum polymers, bearing in mind how much traceability means to food and pharmaceutical producers. It offers a complete and trustworthy range of guar polymers whose origins can be fully traced. This traceability serves the regulatory as also the consumers’ requirements. The company is known for its proven production processes, advanced quality systems and reliable supplies.

Because of these reasons the company has acquired a major portion of the expanding market of guar polymers. We are one of India’s foremost guar gum powder (GGP) manufacturers, supplying to all sectors of the food industry with an extensive range of quality products. Besides food, the company also offers guar gum for technical applications such as pet food, oil drilling, textile printing, mining, paper, etc.

What is the potential for Guar products in the international markets?
There is a great potential of Guar products in the overseas market, especially after the recent development involving CMC that is used in the food industry. In fact, Guar products are used as an alternative to CMC in the food industry. CMC is a product which is made from paper pulp after undergoing various chemical processes. Recently US FDA has found a toxic substance called anthraquinone in CMC. They have tested and found out that this toxic chemical residue is very hazardous for human consumption. At present, there in no instrument that can quantify the collective quantum of this toxic substance in the CMC. Therefore, US FDA has instructed the CMC-producing companies to give a method of measuring the collective quantum. This whole incident has created a huge requirement of Guar products that are free from any chemical hazard. If we could be able to substitute CMC in the international market, then it would be a very big market as current CMC market share is around 90 per cent. Our queries have also increased since this finding, which came around 4 months back. If