Su-Kam honoured with the Marico Innovation Foundation’s ‘Innovation for India’ Award — recognising Kunwer Sachdev’s pioneering plastic-body inverter and category-defining product design.
The Marico Innovation Foundation named Su-Kam Power Systems among the winners of its ‘Innovation for India’ Award — India’s most prestigious recognition for indigenous product innovation. The award places Kunwer Sachdev alongside the small group of Indian founders whose innovations reshaped their category from the ground up.
Why Su-Kam won
Su-Kam was recognised for the plastic-body inverter — a design nobody in the world had built before Kunwer Sachdev did. The plastic body cut cost, weight and thermal issues in one stroke, made distribution easier for a country with fragmented last-mile logistics, and became the visual signature of Indian home inverters for the next two decades. India Today separately named it ‘Innovation of the Decade’.
About the Marico Innovation Foundation
The Marico Innovation Foundation runs one of India’s longest-standing awards for innovation impact, honouring both product and business-model innovators. Past winners include Aravind Eye Care, Selco India, and Amul — institutions whose innovations changed the shape of their sector.
“Every product Su-Kam built was a first for India. Innovation is not copying what exists elsewhere — it is creating what your country needs.”
— Kunwer Sachdev, on receiving the Innovation for India Award