Top chemical companies in India 2023

 

Tata Chemicals is the 3rd largest soda ash production capacity plant in India. This was the second soda ash plant built in India by Kapilram Vakil that started operating in the year 1944.The township Mithapur, derives its name from "Mitha" 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 27 March 2008, Tata Chemicals Ltd acquired 100 per cent With all these acquisitions, combined capacity of production has increased to around 5.17 million tons 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 2.2 billion tons of ammonia and 3.85 billion tons of urea per day.

In 2019, Tata Group transferred Tata Chemicals' branded food business to Tata global Beverages (now tata consumer products), in an all shares deal.

In 2016, Tata Chemicals sold its urea business to Pune-based Yara India, part of the Norwegian chemical company, Yara International.

In 2022, Tata Chemicals, through its subsidiary, Tata chemicals Europe set up the UK's first industrial-scale carbon capture and usage plant. The plant can capture 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum.

Pidilite Industries Limited is an Indian adhesives manufacturing company based in Andheri (East), Mumbai. The company is the dominant and leading adhesives company in India. Pidilite also manufactures products across verticals such as art materials and stationery; food and fabric care; car products, adhesives, and sealants; and specialty industrial products like adhesives, pigments; textile resins, leather chemicals, and construction chemicals.

Pidilite markets the Fevicol range of adhesives. Its other brands are FeviKwik, Dr. Fixit, Roff, Cyclo, Ranipal, Hobby Ideas, M-seal, and Acron. It also markets and manufactures WD-40 in India.

The company has manufacturing facilities across India including in Mahad (Maharashtra), Vapi (Gujarat), Baddi and kala Amb (both in Himachal pradesh). In 2022, Pidilite Industries partnered with 100x.VC.

History

The company was founded in 1959.

In 2015, Pidilite acquired a 70% majority stake in Nina Waterproofing Systems for ₹100 crore (US$15.59 million).

• In 2018, Pidilite acquired a 70% stake in CIPY Polyurethanes for ₹96 crore (US$14.04 million).
• In 2020, Pidilite acquired Huntsman corporation's Indian subsidiary for ₹2,100 crore (US$283.4 million) to strengthen their retail adhesives and sealants portfolio. 

Aarti Industries Limited (AIL) is a leading Indian manufacturer of specialty chemicals and pharmaceuticals with a global footprint. We combine process chemistry competence (recipe focus) with a scale-up engineering competence (asset utilization) for creating a sustainable future. Over the last decade, AIL has transformed from an Indian company servicing global markets to a global entity with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in India. We manufacture chemicals used in the downstream manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, polymers, additives, surfactants, pigments and dyes. About us We Globally Rank among the Top 4 in 75% of our portfolio Aarti Industries Limited (AIL) is a leading Indian manufacturer of specialty chemicals and pharmaceuticals with a global footprint. We manufacture chemicals used in the downstream manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, polymers, additives, surfactants, pigments and dyes. Our wide portfolio has made us a global partner of choice for various major global and domestic customers.

Atul is an improvement driven, integrated chemical company serving about 4,000 customers belonging to 30 industries across the world. The Company has established subsidiary companies in the USA (1994), the UK (1996), China (2004), Brazil (2012) and the UAE (2015) to serve its customers and thus enhance breadth and depth of its business. With depth in science and technology, Atul manages almost all unit processes and unit operations to manufacture about 1,350 products and formulations and has state-of-the-art facilities and processes to ensure safety and treatment of gaseous, liquid and solid pollutants. The Company is ISO 14001 certified.

Atul established successful joint venture companies with world-renowned multi-national companies namely American Cyanamid Company (now a part of BASF AG and Pfizer Inc) in 1947, Imperial Chemical Industries plc (now a part of Akzo Nobel and Astra Zeneca plc) in 1955 and Ciba-Geigy Ltd (now a part of BASF AG and Huntsman Corporation) in 1960.

Atul was founded on September 05, 1947 – a month after Indian independence – by Kasturbhai Lalbhai, an institution builder par excellence and a legendary Indian of his times. The Company was a manifestation of his dream to generate large-scale employment, create wealth in rural India and make the country self-sufficient in its requirements of chemicals.

The Chemicals segment focuses on maintaining and developing BASF’s Production Verbund. BASF’s unique Verbund system of highly integrated production sites offers substantial competitive advantages. The main success factors for this segment are operational and technological excellence, scale effects, integration and raw material availability, reliable and low cost logistics, as well as the reduction of complexity. In Petrochemistry, separation is the first step in creating new bonds. It results in basic chemicals which are used to make many other products in the chemical industry. From the heart of the BASF Verbund, we feed the value-adding chain for a number of intermediates and end products. When separation produces new bonds, it’s because at BASF, we create chemistry. Industrial gases are volatile substances that must be handled with great care and caution. When producing these gases in our world-scale plants, we ensure that safety is the top priority. And, of course, we guarantee reliably high quality. When lightweight meets grounded, it’s because at BASF, we create chemistry. Industrial gases are used in many industries around the clock: in the chemical industry, in science and research, in the food industry, in construction, and trades and crafts, in rubber and plastics processing and many other industries - whenever things have to be welded, frozen, powered, heated, industrially cleaned, ventilated and tested. That’s why our world-scale plants are a key element of the BASF Verbund, especially at the Ludwigshafen site.