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Integrated Report   Statutory Reports   Financial Statements
                                                                                      Integrated Annual Report 2020-21              Focussing on Operational   60-146       147-300
                                                                                                                                    Excellence and Quality
                                                                                                                                    Leadership
           operational excellence initiatives in FY 2020-21



           Basic Chemistry Products










             Focussed cost and        Cost improvement ideas     Carbon capture and usage     Improvement of train                 ongoing Capex projects
            productivity programmes   arising out of a programme   plant at combined heat   safety and operations by               Basic Chemistry Products                           specialty Products
            resulted in substantial   facilitated by external   and power (CHP) plant   commissioning the Trains                   India                                              Agri sciences
            savings in both Capex and   consultant yielding    which will reduce carbon   Management System                            New CoGen Plant                                India
            Opex                      continuous savings       emissions by 10% or      (Magadi)                                                                                        New formulation unit at Dahej (CZ)
             Supply chain efficiency                           40,000 tonnes (expected                                                  New Vacuum Evaporated Salt Plant and associated supply
            and increased customer                             completion Q1 FY 2021-22)                                             chain investments                                  Multi Purpose Plant at Dahej
            service levels by stepping                         (UK)                                                                    Expansion of Sodium Bicarbonate capacity
            up usage of container rake                          New boiler plant at British                                        UsA
            movement                                           Salt Limited with lower                                                Projects underway to reduce environmental load, increase
             Continuing lean six sigma                         energy consumption and                                                safety and increase automation and digitisation
            and other continuous                               carbon emissions (UK)
            improvement programmes                                                                                                 UK
             Modernised Caustic plant                                                                                                 Carbon Capture and Usage project in final stages
            to yield increased volumes                                                                                                New high efficiency boiler at Salt Plant
            and efficiencies (Mithapur)
             Power plant and Soda
            Ash (Carbonating Towers)
            Industrial Internet of Things
            (IIoT) projects implemented                                                                                            Way forward
            (Mithapur)


           specialty Products




                                                                                                                                   Basic Chemistry Products                           specialty Products       nutrition sciences
                                                                                                                                      Increase salt and brine production for increased feedstock to   Performance Materials     Complete ongoing
                                                                                                                                     support growth (India)                             Enhance operational      projects around operation
           Performance Materials    nutrition sciences                     Agri sciences                                              Undertake digitisation and automation projects for efficiency,   efficiency and   excellence, process
              Ongoing plant upgrades to   Successfully commercialised Nellore plant alongside     Deployed technologies across manufacturing,   quality and cost benefits (India)      environmental performance   automation and energy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                 reduction
            increase plant efficiencies   undertaking optimisation projects focussed on:   R&D, human resources, supply chain and sales &     Increase the use of IIoT, AI, data analytics and technology to   with further upgradation of
            and reliability at Silica plant,     Automation: Leading to better safety, efficient   distribution functions to drive automation and   improve manufacturing practices and business processes (India)  plant and technology    Undertake initiatives
            Cuddalore                 operations and enhanced hygiene        efficiency                                               Further increase plant reliability and OEE at TCNA                         to further agenda of
                                                                              Diversified vendor base and explored                                                                                               efficient and responsible
                                       Operation excellence: Projects undertaken                                                      Expand recovery of Soda Ash from waste streams (TCNA)                      manufacturing
                                      enabled increase in plant throughput, while   opportunities for backward integration to         Invest further in new technologies to move towards lowering
                                                                             secure raw material supplies
                                      improving quality and hygiene requirements                                                     environmental footprint and increasing circularity (TCE)
                                                                              Exploring new Seeds production locations,
                                       Energy optimisation: Increased solar power   automation possibilities and engaging with         Reconfigure supply chain network at TCML, Kenya
                                      generation capacity by 65% and reduced   growers for information / solutions to maximise
                                      maximum grid power demand by 20%       Seed yields
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