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Set up in 1962, Chemplast Sanmar Ltd (CSL)
(formerly Chemicals & Plastics India Ltd) is the flagship of the
Chennai-based Sanmar Group. It acquired Mettur Chemicals, a maker of
caustic soda, in the late 80s. With this CSL integrated backwards as
Mettur also manufactured an equivalent quantity of chlorine. CSL then
set up various forward integration facilities for using the captive
chlorine production. It started manufacturing chloromethanes,
refrigeration gases (CFCs), hydrochloric acid, stable bleaching
powder, water treatment chemicals, trichloroethanes etc. Metkem
Silicon Ltd, manufacturing silicon wafers using chlorine, was then
merged with CSL.
CSL has plants located at Mettur Dam and
Vedaranyam, Krishnagiri & Panruti in Tamil Nadu.
During FY99, the company restructured its
business, vesting its shipping business with Sanmar Shipping Ltd (SSL).
CSL now focuses only on chemicals, with one of the divisions
manufacturing PVC and the other making chlorochemicals -- caustic
soda, chlorine, solvents, refrigerant gases and silicon wafers.
The PVC division of the company, commenced
operations in May 1967 at Mettur, near Salem in Tamil Nadu with
technology from B.F. Goodrich, USA. The division produces a varied
range of high quality PVC Resin products with a wide range of end use
applications. The division has a capacity: 60,000 MT per annum
It manufacturer of 3 grades of Suspension
Resins, 3 grades of Paste (Dispersion) Resins, 2 grades of Copolymer
Suspension Resins plus a speciality Battery Separator Resin. It is
also the only manufacturer of Battery Separator grade Resins (made
with technical know-how from ICI, UK) and Copolymer Suspension Resins
in India.
The PVC business of Chemplast Sanmar is
integrated backwards i.e., it gets its feedstock, industrial alcohol,
from its alcohol plants at Panruti, near Neyveli and from Krishnagiri,
near Dharmapuri and chlorine from its neighbouring chlor-alkali
facility. It has the necessary port-based infrastructure to import
feedstock like ethylene dichloride (EDC). It has a captive power
generation capacity of 10 MW in the PVC plant, meeting 100% of its
requirements. The chlor-alkali plant also has 30 MW additional power
generating capacity, with the option to augment this capacity through
wind mills
The plant presently has the capacity to
produce,Suspension and Copolymer Resin with a capacity of 40,000 TPA,
Paste Resin with a total capacity of 16,000 TPA, Battery Separator
Resin 4,000 TPA thereby totaling a capacity of 60,000 TPA.The Mettron
business commenced operations in October 1988 and manufactures
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) and Hydrochloro Fluorocarbons (HCFC)
The Mettron business commenced operations
in October 1988 and manufactures Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) and
Hydrochloro Fluorocarbons (HCFC). The manufacturing facility is
located at Mettur, near Salem in Tamil Nadu .The plant capacity is
2,500 MT per annum of CFC and HCFC
The first Caustic Soda plant was set up in
1936 by The Mettur Chemical and Industrial Corporation Limited (MCIC).
MCIC was merged with Chemplast Sanmar Limited in 1988. The business is
now has a fully integrated plant with a 100% captive power generation
facility. The manufacturing facility is located at Mettur, near Salem
in Tamil Nadu. The business contributes significantly to the
development of the caustic soda industry in the country.
The plant has a capacity to produce 48,000
mt of caustic soda per annum and 42,000 mt of chlorine per annum.
The PVC business has also recently
commissioned the Oxy Chlorination plant to increase production of
captive feedstock - EDC and projects to augment Ethylene and Paste
resin capacity are underway.
The PVC business will concentrate more on
speciality resins, strengthening its market leadership. Its current
goals include commercialising a speciality terpolymer solution vinyl
resin, CP 510, having applications in printing inks for metal
decoration and gravure printing on polyester. A 170,000 TPA
shore-based PVC plant is being planned at Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu
Under the terms of the Montreal Protocol,
the production and use of CFC-11 and CFC-12 will have to be phased out
by the year 2010. The gradual process of phasing out these products is
to be completed in stages: 50% by 2005, 85% by 2007 and 100% by 2010.
Chemplast`s production programme will be in line with the above
phase-out. The Mettron business will continue to produce HCFC-22,
which has a phase-out deadline of 2040.
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