Twenty years on
the building envelope.

Founded in Secunderabad

Y. Madhusudhan — a mechanical engineer with a decade already behind him in aluminium extrusion — founds Sun Glazing & Fabrication. In November, the company signs its first subcontract: fabrication, assembly and glazing for Mero Asia Pacific at Hyderabad International Airport.

The airport, and the apprenticeship

Working as Mero's fabrication partner across five buildings at the airport — the passenger terminal, the technical building, the ATC tower, the airport hotel — plus Ascendas International Tech Park in Chennai, the Hyderabad International Convention Centre and Deloitte.

It was job work: Mero owned the design, the drawings and the material. Sun Glazing owned the factory, the machines and the people. It was also an invaluable education in how a facade of international standard is built.

Turnkey

The company begins taking on turnkey contracts — design, supply and installation under its own name.

Standing on our own

Mero won the Delhi airport and moved north. We wanted to stay in Hyderabad, so the collaboration wound down amicably.

Within three months of standing alone, Sun Glazing had produced its own unitized system drawings, its own U-value calculations and its own wind-load reports, working alongside IIT Madras. We had become an engineering company in our own right.

South India's facade specialist

Nearly seven million square feet delivered, the largest curtain wall facility in Hyderabad, and operations now expanding to Bangalore. Workflows are fully digitized — design, procurement, production, delivery and billing.