Tata Chemicals

Tata Chemicals Ltd is a Tata Group Company (India) with plant locations in Mithapur (Gujarat),Babrala (UP), and Haldia (West Bengal), States, in India. It is headquartered in Mumbai, India.

Tata Chemicals has the largest single 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 "Mithu" which means salt in Gujarati language.

Since 2006 Tata Chemicals has owned Brunner Mond, a United Kingdom-based chemical company with operations in Kenya and The Netherlands.

On March 27, 2008, Tata Chemicals Ltd acquired 100 per cent stake in US-based General Chemical Industrial Products Inc (GCIP) for $1 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 5.5 million tonnes of soda ash.Currently, TCL makes 2.9 million tonne (mt) of soda ash a year, while GCIP makes 2.5 mt.

References

* [http://www.tatachemicals.com/ Tata Chemicals Ltd]

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