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Company overview

We are a diverse but closely integrated set of people
and businesses with a shared mission to serve society
through science.
On the path to transforming
Established in 1939, Tata Chemicals diversi ed natural soda ash manufacturer. our businesses
Limited (TCL or the Company) is a global Through two subsidiaries, Rallis India
chemicals company serving the needs of Limited (Rallis) and Metahelix Life Completed sale and transfer of Urea
industry, consumers and the agricultural Sciences Limited (Metahelix), we provide Business (Babrala) to Yara Fertilisers India
sector. The Company manufactures innovative products and services to the Private Limited in January 2018
inorganic chemicals, consumer products, Indian farm sector. Rallis has a portfolio
crop protection and agriculture inputs, of crop protection chemicals, seeds, plant Divested Phosphatic fertiliser and trading
and nutritional solutions. We serve growth nutrients, soil conditioners and business (Haldia) to IRC Agrochemicals
a varied set of customers across ve agri-services and serves the international Private Limited
continents with employees spread across market through contract manufacturing Invested in knowledge-led businesses by
four regions. and registration based sales. Metahelix is signing Memorandum of Understanding
a world-class biotechnology innovator in (MoU) with Government of Andhra
Our approach to business is the eld of seed hybridisation. Pradesh to invest in a green eld
• Delivering high performance biotechnology manufacturing unit for
for stakeholders In the last 79 years, our deep-rooted food ingredients and formulations
• Caring for the community values along with our cultural pillars
• Nurturing a committed and have kept us focused on our mission Green eld project under
passionate workforce to accomplish our vision. construction in Nellore, Andhra
Pradesh for a manufacturing plant
Growing our businesses Values of fructooligosaccharides with
Through our consumer products portfolio, Safety, Passion, Integrity, installed capacity of 5,000 MT of
FructoOligosaccharides (FOS) with a
we have positively impacted the lives of Care and Excellence. total investment of ` 270 crore
millions of Indians through the iodised
and Iron forti ed Tata Salt. The Tata Commitment to invest ` 295 crore for
Sampann umbrella brand focuses on Cultural pillars manufacturing silica based products
providing everyday nourishing food Proactive cost focus,
to consumers such as unpolished high Agile execution, Acquired the precipitated silica business
protein dals, low oil absorb besan, and a Collaborative innovation and of Allied Silica Limited in Cuddalore, Tamil
wide range of uniquely developed spices. Trusting relationships. Nadu for upto ` 123 crore to manufacture
Our nutritional solutions business through Highly Dispersible Silica (HDS) and other
its umbrella brands NQ and Nx provides silica based products developed at our
Innovation Centre
innovative range of prebiotics and Mission
healthier alternatives to regular sugar. Serving society through Handling the water puri er business as
science. a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Our inorganic chemicals business is a initiative to serve communities that do not
specialised manufacturer of soda ash, Vision have access to clean drinking water
sodium bicarbonate and allied products. To be a sustainable Company
These are consumed as inputs to diverse with deep customer insights Launched Multigrain Khichdi, Nutri Mix
industries such as glass, detergents, and engaging relationship Chillas, and Organic pulses with Star
textiles, feed, mining and chemical with all stakeholders in Bazaar and Amazon in Mumbai, Pune,
processing across the globe. The global industrial chemicals, branded Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi NCR, Kolkata
chemicals business has a competitive agriculture and consumer Launched Medikarb , India’s rst branded
TM
advantage, as it is the world’s most products.
pharmaceutical-grade sodium bicarbonate
4 Annual Report 2017-18