Part of the US$100 billion Tata group, Tata Chemicals is a global company with operations in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America. We touch a billion lives through our products and businesses — industrial chemicals, consumer products, agri solutions and nutritional solutions. Tata Chemicals’ 2014-15 turnover was INR170 billion.
We are the world’s second-largest soda ash producer and service global customers like Unilever, Procter & Gamble, St Gobain and Asahi Glass, as well as hundreds of local industries who use our soda ash to make soap, detergent, glass and other products. We are also the world’s fourth largest maker of sodium bicarbonate, which is used in diverse industries such as food, feed, dyes, textiles and in flue gas treatment.
Tata Salt, India’s market leader in the iodised salt segment, touches more than 600 million consumers. We have extended our consumer products portfolio to pulses and spices under the I-Shakti brand, which is India’s first national brand for packaged pulses. Our affordable, nanotechnology-based water purifier, Tata Swach, also touches millions of lives.
We are one of India’s leading manufacturers in the urea and phosphate fertiliser segments and a key player in specialty fertiliser. Tata Kisan Sansar is Tata Chemicals’ one-stop shop for over 2.6 million farmers in more than 26,000 Indian villages.
Our nutritional solutions business is gearing up and we sell our products under the Sustentials brand to reputed companies in the food sector.
For Tata Chemicals, sustainability encompasses stakeholder engagement, environmental stewardship, creating economic value, promoting human rights and building social capital. Our CSR programmes engage with and support key communities through company-supported organisations.
Innovation drives us. Our innovation initiatives focus on delivering value, be it in food and fuel, energy and environment or water and wellness.