Looking ahead
To ensure the team will continue to have these successes to celebrate, Kimoha aims to stay ahead in technology, said Bhimani.
“As multinationals’ requirements are very special, it is not easy for everybody to compete – and the technology and expertise gives us an edge,” he said.
“One of the key advantages is a much faster turnover. You cannot put this in monetary terms. And that’s why Kimoha is different. We want to be our customers’ first choice.”
But fresh environmental achievements are also in the company’s sights.
“The next stage is a full waste extraction system which takes all the wastage, sidetrims, matrix fully automatically and cuts it, which will reduce the volume of waste significantly,” he said.
Meanwhile, Kimoha is in the process of becoming FSC-certified during the course of this year, he added.
That said, the firm has already overtaken the environmental standards of most of its counterparts in the West, says Wolfram Gruening, executive director, who has brought skills developed in his native Germany to help Kimoha win more than 40 airlines as customers for its niche aviation products.
“How does this company compare with Germany? Kimoha is quite far over the average of what all the Europeans do,” he said.
“We are all one and we are very blessed to have a common understanding of business, the environment and human factors – and that is something which is just amazing.”