Tata Chemicals
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Tata Chemicals Ltd is a Tata Group
Company (India
) based in Mumbai
. The company is one of the largest chemical companies in India with significant operations in India and Africa.
Tata Chemicals has the second largest soda ash production capacity plant in India. This was the second soda ash plant built in India by Shri Kapilram Vakil that started operating in the year 1944. The township Mithapur, derives its name from "Mith" which means salt in Gujarati language.
Since 2006 Tata Chemicals has owned Brunner Mond
, a United Kingdom
-based chemical company with operations in Magadi
(Kenya
) and General Chemicals, in United States of America.
On March 27, 2008, Tata Chemicals Ltd acquired 100 per cent stake in US-based General Chemical Industrial Products Inc (GCIP) for $1.05 billion (around Rs 4,000 crore) to become the world’s second largest maker of soda ash. With all these acquisitions, combined capacity of production has increased to around 5.17 million tonnes of soda ash.
In April 2010, Tata Chemicals acquired 25% stake in ammonia-urea fertilizer complex in Gabon
for US$290 million. The first phase of the plant will have a full operational capacity of 2,200 million tonnes of ammonia and 3,850 million tonnes of urea per day.
, Maharashtra
started operations in 2004. The team of scientists is working in the following areas: Advanced Materials, Green Chemistry, Biochemicals, Metabolites, and Nutraceuticals.
Tata Group
Tata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Tata Group is one of the largest companies in India by market capitalization and revenue. It has interests in communications and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy,...
Company (India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
) based in Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
. The company is one of the largest chemical companies in India with significant operations in India and Africa.
Plant locations
- MithapurMithapurMithapur, Gujarat is a census town in Jamnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat.Mithapur in various languages:In Gujarati - મીઠાપુરIn Hindi - मीठापुरIn English - MithapurIn Marathi - मिथापूरIn Urdu - مٹھپرIn Tamil - மிதபூர்In Bangali - মিঠাপুর...
(Gujarat) - BabralaBabralaBabrala is a town and a nagar panchayat in Badaun district in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Industrial Area : TATA CHEMICALS LIMITED ,School: TATA CHEM DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL ,Babrala is known for its FOOTBALL as sole sports there., India....
(UPUttar PradeshUttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...
) - NandedNandedNanded is the second largest city in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra, India. It is also headquarters of Nanded district in the Marathwada Division of the state. It is an important holy place for the Sikh faith and is famous for the Hazur Sahib Gurudwara. It is the district headquarters once...
(MaharashtraMaharashtraMaharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
) - HaldiaHaldiaHaldia has a typical moderate climate with winter temperatures ranging from a low of around 7 degrees Celsius to a high of 22 degrees Celsius. Winters are chilly and is when the residents hold the Haldia Utsav festival. Summers can be very hot and humid. Usual summer temperatures in May, the...
(West BengalWest BengalWest Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
) - NorthwichNorthwichNorthwich is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It lies in the heart of the Cheshire Plain, at the confluence of the rivers Weaver and Dane...
, CheshireCheshireCheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. Cheshire's county town is the city of Chester, although its largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Widnes, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Winsford, Northwich, and Wilmslow...
(United KingdomUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
) - East HanoverEast Hanover, New JerseyEast Hanover Township is a township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 11,393. The town was incorporated in 1928. The headquarters of the Nabisco company and the pharmaceutical company Novartis are located in East...
, New JerseyNew JerseyNew Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
(United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
) - MagadiMagadi, KenyaMagadi, Kenya is a town in the Great Rift Valley at Lake Magadi, located southwest of Nairobi, in southern Kenya. Magadi is northeast of Lake Natron in Tanzania....
(KenyaKenyaKenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
)
Tata Chemicals has the second largest soda ash production capacity plant in India. This was the second soda ash plant built in India by Shri Kapilram Vakil that started operating in the year 1944. The township Mithapur, derives its name from "Mith" which means salt in Gujarati language.
Since 2006 Tata Chemicals has owned Brunner Mond
Brunner Mond
Tata Chemicals Europe is a UK-based chemicals company that is a subsidiary of Tata Chemicals Limited, itself a part of the India-based Tata Group...
, a United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
-based chemical company with operations in Magadi
Magadi, Kenya
Magadi, Kenya is a town in the Great Rift Valley at Lake Magadi, located southwest of Nairobi, in southern Kenya. Magadi is northeast of Lake Natron in Tanzania....
(Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
) and General Chemicals, in United States of America.
On March 27, 2008, Tata Chemicals Ltd acquired 100 per cent stake in US-based General Chemical Industrial Products Inc (GCIP) for $1.05 billion (around Rs 4,000 crore) to become the world’s second largest maker of soda ash. With all these acquisitions, combined capacity of production has increased to around 5.17 million tonnes of soda ash.
In April 2010, Tata Chemicals acquired 25% stake in ammonia-urea fertilizer complex in Gabon
Gabon
Gabon , officially the Gabonese Republic is a state in west central Africa sharing borders with Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, and with the Republic of the Congo curving around the east and south. The Gulf of Guinea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean is to the west...
for US$290 million. The first phase of the plant will have a full operational capacity of 2,200 million tonnes of ammonia and 3,850 million tonnes of urea per day.
Research and Development Center
The Research and Development Center Tata Chemicals Innovation Center located at PunePune
Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...
, Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
started operations in 2004. The team of scientists is working in the following areas: Advanced Materials, Green Chemistry, Biochemicals, Metabolites, and Nutraceuticals.
Product range
- Chemicals'- Soda ash, Sodium Bicarbonate, Caustic soda, Chlorine, Liquid Bromine , Gypsum, Phosphoric acid and Sulphuric acids.
- Fertilisers - Urea, Sodium Tripolyphosphate (STPP), Di-ammonium phosphate (DAP), NPK complexes and single super phosphate (SSP)
- Consumer products - Salt: Tata Salt, I-Shakti, Tata Salt Lite, Tata Salt DFS; Cooking soda : I-Shakti cooking soda
- Biofuels - Bioethanol, Biodiesel
- Fresh produce - Khet-Se
- Cement - Tata Shudh
- Pulses - Tata I-shakti dals
- Water purifier - Tata swachTata swachThe Tata Swach water purifier is developed by Tata Chemicals, a part of the Tata group in India. The Swach was designed as a low cost purifier for Indian low-income groups, who lack access to safe drinking water...
External links
- Tata Chemicals Ltd
- Tata Chemicals and Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani Join Hands for HRD
- BITS Pilani and Tata Chemicals Join Hands for HRD
- Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani and Tata Chemicals Sign MoU
- Tata Chemicals signs MoU with BITS Pilani
- Tata Chemicals and BITS Pilani Rajasthan sign MoU for HRD
- BITS Pilani Rajasthan and Tata Chemicals sign MoU for HRD
- American Natural Soda Ash Company