The PVC operations of Chemplast began in May 1967 at Mettur, near Salem in Tamil Nadu, with technology from B F Goodrich, USA, to manufacture a variety of high quality PVC Resin products having a wide range of end use applications.
Besides speciality Battery Separator Resins and two grades of Copolymer Resins, the company also manufactures 5 grades of Suspension Resins and 3 grades of Paste (dispersion) Resins.
Chemplast Sanmar pioneered the manufacture of Paste Grade Resins in India. It is also the only manufacturer of Battery Separator Grade Resins (made with technical knowhow from ICI, UK) and Copolymer Suspension Resins in India.
Feedstock Management
With the intention of achieving self sufficiency in feedstock, the company completed a strategic acquisition in 2003, of a chloralkali plant at Karaikal, and ramped up plant capacity. This plant, acquired in August 2003, has a capacity of 33,000 tpa of caustic soda and 30,000 tpa of chlorine. This is being increased to 50000 tpa of caustic soda and 44000 tpa of chlorine. A downstream EDC plant of 84,000 tpa capacity, which will captively utilise the chlorine from the chloralkali plant , is being put up at Karaikal. This plant facility will include Marine Terminal facilities for the import of liquid ethylene. To derive further cost advantage, the company has gone in for a gas based power plant of 8 MW capacity at this location.
