YEAR EVENTS 1956 - The Company was incorporated on 5th March, as a private limited company. It became a public limited company on 25th March, 1961. It was promoted by Mahendra & Mahendra Ltd., in collaboration with Dr.Beck & Co. Ltd., A.G. West Germany. The Companies manufacturing plants are located at Pimpri & Bharuch. - Dr. Beck & Co. (India) Ltd., manufactures wire enamels, varnishes epoxy & unsaturated polyster resins. 1996 --Dr Beck & Co has won the first Mahratta Chamber of Commerce and Industries Dr R J Rathi award for environmental pollution control for 1996. --Dr. Beck forays into automotive paints segment 1999 - Schenectady (India) Holdings Ltd. (SIHL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Schenectady International Inc., USA acquired 51 per cent of the Equity Capital of the Company from the BASF Group. - The Company has received the ISO 14001 Environment Management Systems certification from RWTUV Germany. - The name of the Company was changed to Schenectady-Beck India Ltd., - Mr. W.A. Graham, Mr. S.M. Abba, Mr. M.A. MacCormick, Mr. G.W. Brown, Ms. A.G. Gardner and Ms. H.M. Ward, representatives of Schenectady International Inc., were appointed as Directors in the last Annual General Meeting. - Mr. M.V. Vaidya, whole-time Director has retired from the services of the Company. Mr. P.R. Deshpande, Mr. V.M. Bhat and Mr. Hans Evert Rohlmann have resigned from the Board. - The Company has entered into an agreement with Schenectady International Inc.. USA for transfer of technology for new and improved variety of wire enamels and insulating varnishes and also for receiving benefits of technical information and access to the results of its world wide Research and Development activities and technology updates, on an ongoing basis. 2000 - The Pune based Schendectady-Beck India has launched BeckSeal, a two component epoxy resin-based sealant in putty consistency for household applications. 2001 - The Company has proposed to amalgamate Schenectady India Ltd. with itself, One equity share will be allotted for every 20 shares of SIL held. 2002-Gregg Wright Brown resigns from the Board of Schenectady-Beck. 2007 - Company name has been changed from Beck India Ltd to Elantas Beck India Ltd. 2008 -Mr. Rajeev Bhide appointed as the Managing Director of the Company -Elantas Beck India Ltd has proposed to recommend a dividend of Rs 4.00 per share 2009 -Elantas Beck India Ltd has proposed to recommend a dividend of Rs 4.00 per share 2010 -Elantas Beck India Ltd has proposed to recommend a dividend of Rs 4.50 per share 2011 -Elantas Beck India Ltd has proposed to recommend a dividend of Rs 4.50 per share. 2012 -Dr. Guido Forstbach has been appointed as Additional Director of the Company -Elantas Beck India Ltd has proposed to recommend a dividend of Rs 4.50 per share. 2013 -Elantas Beck India Ltd has proposed to recommend a payment of a normal dividend of Rs. 4.50 per equity share and a special dividend of Rs. 87.50 per equity share. -The Registered office of the company has been shifted from Beck House, Damle Path, Off. Law College Road, Pune - 411004 to 147, Mumbai-Pune Road, Pimpri, Pune - 411018. 2014 -Elantas Beck India Ltd has recommend payment of dividend of Rs. 55/- per equity share of Rs. 10/- each. 2016 -For the sixth time the specialty chemicals company ALTANA has honored an outstanding product, application, or process innovation within the ALTANA Group with the ALTANA Innovation Award. 2017 -Acquistion of wire enamel business of Changzhou Hongbo Paint and Expansion of Tongling site.