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Mithapur expansion to

meet pharmaceutical

bicarb demand

New plant will meet export standards Integrated Report
for US and European markets

Tata Chemicals' sodium bicarbonate Currently, demand in India for pharma
capacity at Mithapur will increase by grade sodium bicarbonate is being met Looking ahead
almost one third, when a new world- largely by reprocessing and repackaging
class pharmaceutical grade plant comes of industrial grade and food grade • Swiftly establish market presence
onstream in late 2019. It is part of our products. Customers in the country’s • Enjoy rst-mover advantage
strategy to maintain volume market share rapidly growing pharmaceutical industry • Convert parts of the existing sodium
in India and increase value-added branded are demanding high quality products bicarbonate to pharma grade Statutory Reports
share in a market driven by strong from certi ed facilities. Regulations are through an identi ed contract
macroeconomic and demographic trends. also likely to tighten and come closer to manufacturer under TCL’s direct
the standards that exist in the European supervision duly validated by the
The new capacity will support our and US markets. Products meeting these Innovation Centre and the Mithapur
recently launched Medikarb product, a stringent standards will nd additional technical services team.
pharma grade sodium bicarbonate that opportunities in the export markets.
is subject to regulations with state Food
& Drug Administration and Central Drug The new plant with a proposed expansion
Standard Control Organization. Of all of bicarb capacity of 28,000 MTPA will
the applications of sodium bicarbonate, use recovered carbon dioxide from
pharma applications in excipients, existing carbonating tower vents. This
formulations, and haemodialysis carbon dioxide recovery will be another
concentrates require the highest purity pioneering step towards sustainability
and hence command the highest driven growth. Financial Statements
realisations.
To achieve this ‘value from waste’ strategy
We currently produce more than 100,000 and reduce our carbon footprint scientists
MTPA across four categories technical, from the Innovation Centre in Pune are
re ned, Alkakarb (animal working closely with the manufacturing
feed) and Sodakarb team from Mithapur, and colleagues in
(food grade). Cheshire for carbon dioxide recovery in
their respective plants. An investment of
` 100 crore is expected for this.

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