Aluplast Appoints Ravi Balakrishnan As New Managing Director

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Faraz Aqil

Managing Director

Aluplast India Pvt. Ltd.

Post Date: September 25, 2025 | Last Edited: September 25, 2025

Aluplast India Pvt Ltd has announced that it has appointed Ravi Balakrishnan as its new Managing Director, effective October 2022. Balakrishnan has over 25 years of dynamic experience in operations, sales, strategic alliances, and project management. Most of that experience had been gained within the Saint-Gobain group & Schneider Electric in India and abroad. During his tenure with the Saint-Gobain group, he has worked he handled various roles in the automotive glass division, building distribution and project engineering groups, and earned a reputation for his a problem solver and handling many strategic initiatives to drive growth. Commenting on his new role, Balakrishnan said: “It’s an honour to join the aluplast family. I am eager to work closely with our partners and team in India as aluplast looks to expand its operations and presence in India and Asia. Having met the group ownership and management several times in India and Germany in recent months, we began preparing and planning almost from the outset”.

Babak Golriz, Head of Expanding Markets at aluplast group, stated, “On behalf of the management, I am delighted to welcome Ravi to the team. His assured confidence, vision, multi-faceted experience and interpersonal qualities will be essential towards the development of our ever-growing business in India. The past few months have been volatile in our industry, and it seems Ravi is taking over at the perfect moment as we find some stability to build upon for 2023”.

Ravi Balakrishnan As New Managing Director

aluplast CEO Eric Bobay added, “Ravi brought a strong experience, which covered essential activities, from St. Gobain. We spent a considerable amount of time together over the last three months preparing for his appointment, including a period of orientation and preparation in Karlsruhe. We are pleased that he felt that aluplast was the right challenge for him and together with the Seitz family welcome him into the aluplast family”.

Balakrishnan takes over a growing business in India and will work closely with a core management team at the company’s headquarters in Germany to drive the business forward in India and beyond.

aluplast is one of the leading system providers of uPVC windows, doors, roller shutters and controlled domestic ventilation systems. The family-owned company headquartered in Karlsruhe (Germany) was founded in 1982 by Manfred J. Seitz. Today, after almost four decades, aluplast has turned into a global player with sales offices and production plants in 40 countries. With its wide product portfolio, the brand offers almost any conceivable window construction and variation. The aluplast success is based above all on the company’s market proximity always resulting in pioneering innovations.