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Taking care of the




                  digestive system









                  Did you know that there are 30 trillion   growth of healthy bacteria in the gut. The   health drinks and dietary supplements.  Integrated Report
                   cells in an average human body? Oh, by    resultant growth in bene cial micro- ora   We are actively working with our Innovation
                  the way, you also house an additional 100   aids in improved immunity, enhanced   Centre colleagues at Pune to further our
                  trillion microbial cells - mostly in the gut   calcium and magnesium absorbption,   understanding of the gut health and
                  - which play a crucial role in your overall   better weight management and promoting   develop interesting product concepts. Our
                  wellbeing. Tata NQ is here to help you take   general well-being.     international publications related to this
                  care of them.                                                          eld of study and our collaboration with Yale
                                                     The product  nds wide application in   University are testimony to these e orts.
                  Targeted at improving gut and      functional foods and beverages such as
                  digestive health, Fossence™ [FOS-   bakery, sweets, and confectionaries. It is
                  FructoOligosaccharides] enhances the   also used in nutritional formulations such as



                                                            Value process chain                                             Statutory Reports
                                                            Value process chain

                                                          Packaging
                                                                    HDPE/PP
                                                                    containers
                                           Fermentation
                                                             Ton          Craft
                                                             tote         paper bags
                          Sugar solution
                          preperation            ISO tankers
                                                                                                  Infant
                                  Bio-                                                            food
                                  Transformation
                                                             Food and beverages
                            Filtration
                                                  Spray
                                     Separation   drying                                  Animal                             Financial Statements
                                                                                         nutrition



                                                     Bolstering our infrastructure

                                                     Having stabilised our operations at the green eld plant at Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu
                                                     over the past two years, we are ready to take the next big step towards augmenting
                                                     our infrastructure with a world-class 5,000 MTPA manufacturing plant of prebiotics
                                                     (FOS & GOS) at Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India.  With a committed capital outlay of
                                                     ` 270 crore, the new plant will be a highly automated good manufacturing process (GMP)
                                                     certi ed manufacturing facility spread over an area of 40 acres. Quality has been kept
                                                     at the core of it all - from the design philosophy to the choice of equipment and control
                                                     systems. The construction is on schedule with commissioning planned by March 2019.

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