Tata Chemicals Limited is India's leading manufacturer of inorganic chemicals. It also manufactures fertilisers and food additives. In the six decades since its inception, Tata Chemicals has been continuously raising the bar in technological competence and gaining recognition as a leader and innovator. The company has an enduring commitment to protecting and enhancing the environment, serving and improving the communities in which it functions, and adhering to the highest ethical standards of corporate behaviour.

TCL operates the largest and most integrated inorganic chemicals complex in India, at Mithapur in Gujarat, a state in western India. A pioneer and market leader in the branded, iodised salt segment, the company manufactures salt that has a purity percentage of 99.8 per cent, the highest in the country. It is also among the largest producers of synthetic soda ash in the world.

The company's state-of-the-art fertiliser complex at Babrala in Uttar Pradesh, a state in northern India, has a remarkable record in energy efficiency. This facility, which makes urea, has won several awards in the fields of environmental conservation and safety.

TCL's phosphatic fertiliser complex at Haldia in West Bengal is currently the only manufacturing unit for DAP/NPK complexes in West Bengal. The Haldia plant has production volumes exceeding 1.2 million tonnes per annum. The fertilisers, sold under the brand name 'Paras', lead the market in West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand.

One of India's leading manufacturers of inorganic chemicals, TCL's products and production processes are benchmarked with the best of global touchstones and meet the most rigorous international specifications.

The company's state-of-the-art manufacturing systems are backed by a highly efficient and committed marketing team. The chemicals strategic business unit (SBU) of Tata Chemicals, oversees both forward and backward integration across a wide spectrum of products and business segments

The Chemicals SBU comprises:

Soda Ash

This multipurpose chemical is used in a variety of industries, most prominently in the manufacture of glass, where it reduces the melting temperature of the sand used in glass formation and helps in the 'workability', or shaping, of glass articles. Soda ash is also a major ingredient in the making of soaps and detergents. Here it is employed as a builder, or filler, to give a smoother surface in formulations of soaps, detergents and other cleaning compounds. This resourceful alkali, the least expensive of soluble alkalis, is widely used in the production of other chemicals. Soda ash is used in mineral processing in mining, pulp and paper manufacture, the making of sodium compounds, water treatment, metal refining, textile processing, cleaning preparations, petroleum and metallurgical refining, iron and steel, aluminum, and drugs.

Caustic Soda

Due to its adoption of energy-efficient, membrane-cell technology and the captive availability of salt and of power, TCL has been able to deliver low-cost caustic soda to the market. As a versatile alkali, caustic soda is used in a variety of industries, the major ones being rayon, cellophane, soap, pulp and paper. Apart from caustic soda, TCL also produces hydrochloric acid and liquid chlorine.

Bromine

TCL manufactures several variants of bromine and bromine-based compounds, such as liquid bromine technical, potassium bromide PQ, sodium bromide PQ, methyl bromide, ethyl bromide and hydrobromic acid.

Bromine is used primarily in the manufacture of organic and inorganic bromides. It is also used as a crucial reagent in preparing several organic compounds requiring bromination. Other variants are used in the preparation of photographic emulsions, for processing photographic films and paper, in lithography, as an analytical reagent, as a soil fumigant and much more.

Gypsum

Gypsum, formed in crystalline lumps or powder form, is yet another product from the Tata Chemicals stable. It is used as an ingredient in Portland cement, for soil treatment, and to stabilise volatile compounds and dissolve nitrogenous ones. It also finds use as an inert filler in paints, paper, pharmaceuticals, insecticide dusts, etc.