Profile
Rallis India is one of India's leading agrochemical
companies. It offers the most comprehensive portfolio
of pesticides and also markets some seed varieties and
speciality fertilisers.
Rallis has an extensive distribution system with more
than 1,500 distributors and 30,000 dealers nationwide,
backed by strong marketing and sales teams. It also
has marketing alliances with several multinational agrochemical
companies, including FMC, Nihon Nihyaku, Dupont, Syngenta,
Makhteshim Agan and Bayer.
Areas
of business
Agrochemicals division
This division deals in pesticides,
speciality fertilisers, micronutrients and seeds. The
company's leadership in pesticides comes from its portfolio
of brands, including Contaf, Rogor, Tatamida, Reeva
and Tatametri. Its range of speciality fertilisers includes
calcium nitrate, Tracel and Solubor.
Rallis's portfolio of products enables growers of cotton,
rice, vegetables, grapes and other crops to control
insect pests, diseases and weeds that affect crop output.
International
business division
Rallis exports its range of pesticides through alliances
with agrochemical companies across the globe. The company's
export basket includes technical-grade pesticides, branded
formulations and contract-manufactured products.
Leather
chemicals
This business deals primarily with the import of vegetable
extracts and speciality chemicals, such as wattle, syntans,
fatliquors and pigments, manufactured by the company's
principals in Europe, Africa and Argentina for distribution
to the leather industry. It also exports natural tanning
extracts to the UK, Italy and Argentina. Rallis has
technical laboratories in main tanning centres like
Chennai, Ranipet, Vaniyambadi and Kanpur.
Manufacturing
Rallis's factories in five locations in India manufacture
technical-grade pesticides and formulations; it has
the largest capacity in the country (10,000 tonnes per
annum of technical-grade pesticides and 30,000 tonnes
/ litres per annum of formulations).
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Research and development
The Rallis Research Centre at Bangalore has over 200
highly qualified and experienced research scientists
focusing on toxicology studies and the development of
new formulations and manufacturing methods. The activities
supervised from the centre include: conducting field
trials to prove efficacy of products; residue, metabolism
and other studies necessary for registration of compounds;
and contract synthesis.
Corporate social
responsibility
Rallis employees have established a social service group
called Rallilove to assist the needy through an initiative
called Assisting Communities Through Service. The company's
social service initiatives in Mumbai include providing
non-formal education to destitute children; sponsoring
a day-care centre for the many homeless children who
come to the city from all parts of India; and providing
educational, dietary and other support to the children
of sex workers. Rallis also provides social support
to blind women at various institutes and houses for
the aged.
Contact
Annahita Kapadia
Rallis India
Apeejay House
Dinshaw Vachha Road
Churchgate
Mumbai 400 020
India
Phone: +91 (22) 6665 2700, 6665 2900
Fax: +91 (22) 6635 2996
Email: annahita@rallis.co.in
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