Tata Chemicals Limited


TATA CHEMICALS LIMITED With a turnover of over Rs.3000 crores, Tata Chemicals Limited is India's leading manufacturer and marketer of inorganic chemicals and fertilisers. Established in 1939, Tata Chemicals is among the world's largest producers of synthetic soda ash, with the largest domestic market share, produced at the company's integrated complex at Mithapur on the Gujarat coast in western India. Tata Chemicals is also one of India's leading manufacturers of urea and phosphatic fertilisers. Its urea plant, located at Babrala in the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India, is the country's most energy efficient fertiliser unit, and produces 12% of the country's urea output in the private sector. Its foray into phosphatic fertilisers follows its merger this year with Hind Lever Chemicals Limited. Tata Chemicals is also a pioneer and market leader in the branded, iodised salt segment. Its salt has a purity percentage of 99.8 per cent, the highest in the country. An ISO-9001/14001 certified company, Tata Chemicals has a varied user industry base comprising glass, paper, textiles, food additives, petroleum, refining, chemicals, dyes, pesticides, direct farm application etc. With an export presence in South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa, it has set itself the objective of achieving global cost competitiveness in soda ash. The acquisition of an equal partnership in Indo Maroc Phosphore S.A. (IMACID) along with Chambal Fertilisers and the global phosphate major, OCP of Morocco recently, is the first step that TCL has taken towards Globalisation. PRODUCTS AND SERVICES Chemicals
Tata Chemicals' range of chemicals includes Caustic soda, Bromine and Bromine-based compounds, and Gypsum. It has an installed capacity of 8,75,000 tonnes of soda ash per annum which is nearly 35% of the country's capacity. The salt works are spread over 60 sq km near the plant, generating over 2 million tonnes of solar salt - the basic raw material for almost all the chemicals that the company produces. The Mithapur plant also has a cement plant, originally set up to consume the solid waste generated at the plant.
Bulk chemicals like Sulphuric Acid, Phosphoric Acid and Sodium Tripoly Phosphate (STPP) are manufactured at its plant in Haldia, West Bengal. This unit produces about 60,000 T of STPP annually, about 65% of the country's capacity. Fertilisers
Nitrogenous fertilisers are manufactured at Babrala plant which is considered one of the best industrial facilities in India and comparable to the best in the world. With a capacity of 8,64,000 tonnes of Urea per annum, this plant matches global standards in technology use, energy conservation, productivity and safety. It is the only fertiliser plant in the country to use dual feedstock: natural gas or naphtha, or a combination of both. It also houses an ammonia plant with a capacity of 1,350 tonnes per day.
The company's phosphatic fertiliser plant at Haldia is an integrated complex for manufacture of bulk chemicals and phosphatic fertilisers like Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP), NPK complexes and Single Super Phosphate (SSP). With overall production volumes exceeding 1.2 million tonnes per annum, Tata Chemicals is a market leader in phosphatic fertilisers in the states of West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand. The fertilisers are marketed in the most fertile region of the country in North and North Western states. Food additives
Tata Chemicals' food additives business has two of the company's premium product groups under its wing: branded salt and sodium bicarbonate. Branded Salt: The company manufactures four varieties of salt: iodised salt, crystalline salt, vacuum salt and pure salt. With a 36% market share in the branded Salt segment in India and a reach of close to 35 million households, Tata Salt, today, is ranked as the No. 1 Food Brand in the list of India's Most Trusted Brands. Sodium bicarbonate: The company produces three varieties of sodium bicarbonate - technical, refined and granular - at its 50,000 tonnes per annum plant. These are marketed in India, the Middle East, Africa and Bangladesh.
As part of its growth plans, Tata Chemicals has launched a branded cooking soda sold in small, single-use sachets under the brand name Tata Samunder Cooking Soda. Corporate Social Responsibility The 'avoid, reduce and recycle' philosophy that the company follows is exemplified best at its cement plant at Mithapur. The company is also a signatory to Responsible Care, a voluntary global initiative of the Chemical industry that demonstrates allegiance to safety, health and environmental issues. Mithapur and Babrala have won the highest British Safety Council 5-star rating. The company has also developed the Mithapur salt works as a natural habitat for thousands of migratory birds. Tata Chemicals' Society for Rural Development (TCSRD) nurtures rural populations in and around the facilities, and helps people achieve self-sufficiency in natural resource management, livelihood support through self-help groups and the building of health and education infrastructure.
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