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| A joint venture between Cabot
Corporation of the USA and the Sanmar Group, India, Cabot
Sanmar Limited manufactures and markets Fumed Silica (Colloidal Silicon
Dioxide/ Fumed Silicon Dioxide) under the brand name of Cab-O-Sil®.
While the basic research in Fumed Silica was undertaken in 1988, the
company put up a pilot plant in 1990. |
| The first—and so far only—manufacturer of the
product outside the USA, UK, Germany and Japan, Cabot Sanmar’s plant
integrates the chlorosilane manufacturing technology of Sanmar and
the Fumed Silica manufacturing technology of Cabot in a rare combination
of upscaling and downscaling of capacities. It is located at Mettur,
near Salem in Tamil Nadu. |
| Cabot Sanmar manufactures the entire range of
untreated grades of Fumed Silica with the surface area ranging from
130 sq. mt. per gram to 380 sq. mt. per gram. With an annual production capacity of 1,000 MT,
it has a significant domestic market share, close to 70%. |
| It also manufactures certain treated grades of Fumed Silica with Cabot technology—with a capacity of 200 tpa. |
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