We are a 25-year-old boutique firm that works across large scale building stone finishing contracts, sourcing of natural stone and stone façade cladding. AGPL or Anko Granites Pvt. Ltd. is one of India’s few companies that specialises in mechanical cladding of stone panels on buildings also known as rainscreens or ventilated facades.
The company founder Pawan Saraf was instrumental in introducing the concept of ventilated stone facades to India in 1999 originally with the IL&FS building at Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai. The company has since then engineered and installed stone facades for a range of clients like the Four Seasons hotel in Mumbai, the Hyatt hotels in Mumbai, Delhi and Pune, and office complexes like Godrej One, TCS Banyan Park, Seawoods Grand Central and Ceejay House in Mumbai. In Bangalore, the company has executed stunning facades for the House of Ganjam and Mark Square in the heart of the city and another 25 buildings across four tech parks for Bagmane Developers. In 2021 the company expanded its footprint outside India with the ITC Ratnadipa in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
In the last two decades Pawan Saraf has been joined in the business by Kanupriya Saraf, a trained interior designer with a Masters’ degree in construction management from Curtin University, Australia, and Ankit Saraf who trained in architecture at the University of Florida in the US. The induction of fresh blood to the business led to expansion, including specialising in various interior and exterior architectural services.
Anko Granites Pvt. Ltd. and Line Level Plumb Pvt. Ltd are sister concerns operating from Mumbai and Bangalore respectively.