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The Specialty products with its focus on Green Chemistry capacity building, rural entrepreneurship development,
solutions comprises Highly Dispersible Silica (‘HDS’) market linkage and enriching lifestyle through quality
and Prebiotics. HDS was developed based on patented products and services. These initiatives are woven around
technology for rubber applications, food, feed, detergents core intervention areas which include empowerment of rural
and oral care. The Company has a domestic market women, youth, farmers, providing safe drinking water, animal
leadership position in Prebiotics and has built a robust care and clean energy.
and high-growth fermentation platform that provides Innovation at Tata Chemicals is focussed on delivering
attractive future growth opportunities. The flagship value to the customers by integrating chemistry with
product - FOSSENCE® (a fructo-oligosaccharide) is a other sciences. At present, the Company has 3 centres
prebiotic dietary fiber that promotes the growth of gut for innovation located in Pune and Bengaluru.
microbiome and improve digestive and immune health.
Operational excellence permeates every aspect of the
Rallis India Limited (‘Rallis’), a subsidiary of the Company is Company’s operations and its people. Cost reduction, faster
a leading Agrochemicals company with a product portfolio resolution of customer issues and world-class manufacturing
offering comprehensive crop care solutions including are mainstays of a culture of continuous improvement.
formulations for crop protection, nutrition and seeds. It
manufactures and markets a range of agri-inputs which The Company is on an accelerated path towards
include pesticides, fungicides, insecticides, seeds and plant digitalisation. By adopting several digital initiatives and new
growth nutrients. A strong distribution network with over age technologies like Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT),
6,800 dealers and 93,000 retailers reaches a vast multitude of remote sensing, automation, etc., the Company is focussed
India’s farmers covering 80% of districts and exports to over on improving its manufacturing and process efficiencies.
31 countries. Its key products are Acephate, Hexaconazole, 4. Operational Performance
Pendimethalin and Metribuzin in which it holds a leadership
position in the domestic market. Rallis is expected to drive its a. Tata Chemicals Overview
growth via manufacturing capacity expansion. I. Impact of COVID-19
In early April 2021, a major second wave of COVID-19
The Company’s businesses are supported by pillars of
safety, sustainability, operational excellence, customer focus, infections took hold in the country which placed a temporary
innovation and digitalisation. The Company has committed strain on the health care system including shortage of liquid
to the Science Based Targets initiative (‘SBTi’), with a target oxygen and hospital beds across states and cities.
of reducing carbon emission (Scope 1 & 2) by 30% by As part of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities,
2030. Its CCU plant in the UK is the first of its kind to be the Company was able to extend support to the surrounding
commissioned in that geography. It captures CO emitted by and extended communities through multiple initiatives:
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the gas-powered energy system and uses it as a feedstock to Oxygen Support to the Government
manufacture high purity sodium bicarbonate for the pharma 1. Installed an oxygen manufacturing plant with 40 NM3/
and food industries.
hr capacity in Ankleshwar, Gujarat
The Company supports key communities with development 2. Installed a 200 LPH PSA oxygen plant and started a 50
models that are sustainable and scalable. It also promotes oxygen bed facility at Mithapur, Gujarat
biodiversity in a significant way through plantation,
ecosystem creation, species conservation, water and 3. Supported Government with oxygen concentrators in
resource conservation around its plants. Through its wholly Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu and Mambattu, Andhra Pradesh
owned subsidiary, Ncourage Social Enterprise Foundation, 4. Set up 200 beds with oxygen in the Government
the Company is focussed on initiatives like livelihood creation, hospital for COVID-19 patients

Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) plant in the UK is the first of its kind to be
commissioned

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