Areas of business
Tata Chemicals is organised into three strategic business
units: chemicals, food additives and fertilisers.
Chemicals
Soda ash is the main product of the chemicals strategic
business unit. The plant has an installed capacity of
875,000 tonnes of soda ash per year, nearly 34 per cent
of the country's capacity. The company also has salt
works spread over 60 sq km at its plant in Mithapur,
generating over two million tonnes of solar salt —
the base raw material for almost all the 27 basic chemicals
that the company produces. Caustic soda, bromine and
bromine-based compounds and gypsum are the company's
other main chemicals.
The facility at Mithapur also has a cement plant, which
was set up to consume the solid waste generated from
the manufacture of soda ash. TCL's cement is sold in
the state of Gujarat under the 'Shudh' brand.
Fertilisers
With an installed capacity of 864,600 tonnes per
year, the company's fertiliser complex at Babrala has
standards in technology, energy conservation, productivity
and safety that are ranked among the best of its kind
in India and comparable to the best in the world. It
is the only fertiliser plant in the country to use dual
feedstock: natural gas or naphtha, or a combination
of both. The complex also houses an ammonia plant with
a capacity of 1,350 tonnes per day.
The company's phosphatic fertiliser plant at Haldia,
acquired from Hind Lever Chemicals, has production volumes
exceeding 1.2 million tonnes per annum. The plant's
fertilisers, sold under the brand name 'Paras', lead
the market in the states of West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand.
Food additives
Tata Chemicals' food additives strategic business unit
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, crystalline,
vacuum and pure salt which collectively have a 38-per
cent market share of the Indian branded iodised salt
market. Apart from Tata Salt, the country's leading
salt brand, TCL also produces Tata Samundar, crystal
salt, and Topp Salt, iodised, vacuum evaporated salt
(marketed in the Middle East markets).
- Sodium bicarbonate:
The company produces three varieties of sodium
bicarbonate — technical, refined and granular
— at its 50,000-tonnes-per-year plant. These
are marketed in India, the Middle East, Africa and
Bangladesh. As
part of its growth plans, Tata Chemicals has launched
cooking soda in small, single-use sachets under the
brand name 'Tata Samunder'.
Services
Tata Kisan Sansar provides farmers a wide range of agri-services
and solutions, right from the stage of sowing seeds
to post-harvest management and marketing of agricultural
produce extension services. These centres provide end-to-end
agricultural solutions to farmers, including technological
innovations and farming know-how, using sophisticated
technology such as satellite mapping and geographical
information systems.
The takeover of the Rallis farm
management division by Tata Chemicals will enable Tata
Chemicals to acquire contract farming and farm equipment
businesses.
Corporate
social responsibility
The company is a firm believer in the 'avoid, reduce
and recycle' philosophy, a manifestation of which is
the company's cement plant at Mithapur.
The company is a signatory to
Responsible Care, a voluntary global initiative of the
chemical industry that demonstrates allegiance to safety,
health and environmental issues. The company has also
developed the Mithapur salt works as a natural habitat
for thousands of migratory birds.
Tata Chemicals has promoted the Tata Chemicals' Society
for Rural Development (TCSRD) for the benefit of the
rural population in and around the company's plants
and townships.
Both the company's plants are ISO-14001 and OHSAS-18001
certified. It has also implemented the Japanese 5-S
and Total Productive Maintenance concepts to ensure
the maintenance of quality standards and safety management
norms. The Safety Management System at Tata Chemicals
is in line with guidelines set by the British Safety
Council.
Location
TCL has its headquarters in Mumbai and has regional
offices across India. It operates an inorganic chemicals
complex at Mithapur in Gujarat and a fertiliser complex
at Babrala in Uttar Pradesh.
TCL also has a phosphatic fertiliser
complex at Haldia in West Bengal.
Contact
Bombay House
24, Homi Mody Street
Mumbai 400 001
India
Phone: +91(22) 6665 8282
Fax: +91(22) 6665 8144
Email: spatil@tatachemicals.com
