Location: Dredge at Magadi Plant
Our Basic Chemistry Business is modelled to the evolving needs of industrial customers around the globe. Our world-class manufacturing facilities, located strategically across four continents, enable us to provide high-quality products and services to our growing customer network through a large and well-entrenched distribution network. Apart from leading global and regional detergent and glass manufacturers, our customer base is spread over diverse industries like food, animal feed, power generation, pharmaceuticals and chemical manufacturing. We manufacture soda ash using both synthetic and natural trona mining processes resulting in lower carbon emission intensity.
Soda Ash player in the world (total capacity of 4,361 KT of Soda Ash)
Producer of vacuum evaporated iodised salt in India
of Solar salt works
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Despite multifarious challenges faced by the business, we continued to stay on course with our strategic plans through agile and timely interventions to boost operational and cost efficiencies and strengthen the foundations.
Simplifying
transportation
processesCognisant of the increasing complexities of Global supply chain and logistics, we have rolled out a Transport Management System to effectively visualise, track, and manage all inbound and outbound despatches from a centralised platform. Our new platform helps customers stay informed on the progress of their orders, and make necessary adjustments for their cargo arrival, inventory management and production planning. The transport management system also offers mobile and web portals, allowing customers to track and manage their shipments from anywhere. The system also offers real-time tracking so that customers have visibility on the status of their shipment at any given moment. The customer-centric system is equipped with features like notifications and alerts, which provide customer convenience and peace of mind when it comes to shipping goods.
Recycling
waste heatWe have initiated the installation of a Steam Rankine Cycle System (SRC) for trapping waste and reusing it in the manufacturing process. The production of cement is an energy-intensive process that requires high fuel consumption in the kilns. Nearly 40-50% of total thermal energy is ideally required for the clinker manufacturing process. Flue gases of preheater and cooler being vented contain 30-35% thermal energy. In SRC, the exhaust gases released from the rotary kiln pass through preheaters (PH) and reach the preheater boiler.
Location: Mithapur Saltworks
Working closely with customers, the UK operations was able to weather the challenges of high energy cost by modifying its contracting strategy. This led to all plants operating at full capacity.
Enabling 10% carbon
footprint reductionIn 2020-21, TCE constructed the Carbon Capture and Utilisation plant (CCU) for capturing CO2 from its gas-fired Combined Heat and Power plant (CHP) at Winnington, Northwich. The plant was commissioned in August 2021 and the first CO2 was captured in September 2021. EIGA quality approvals were obtained the same month, after which all of the CO2 needs of the TCE Sodium Bicarbonate (SB) plant at Winnington have been fulfilled from the new CCU plant. Initiated in 2018, the project is the first industrial scale CCU plant in the UK.
The CO2 is liquefied and purified at the CCU to EIGA Food and Beverages Grade standards. It is used as a key raw material for the manufacturing of high purity SB at the Winnington plant.
The project has yielded excellent outcomes. Commissioned in an exceptionally short period, the CCU has been reducing CO2 emissions from the CHP by 40,000 tonnes per annum, which is equivalent to 11% of its total emissions.
We are certain that the project’s success will act as a pathfinder for other CCU projects in the UK, as was intended by BEIS (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy).
Kenya business performance during the year remained healthy both on volumes and realisations. Fulfilling customer demand across markets was an area of focus given supply chain challenges during the year. Strong cash flows enabled prepayment of all debt.
Location: Magadi Plant
TCL’s presence across four continents gives us a unique position, and equips us to synergise and deliver superior value to our global and regional customers. We are committed to investing in increasing our capacities to service the growing global demand of soda ash, while focussing on increasing our productivity, cost competitiveness and sustainability metrics.
The Soda Ash outlook in North America remains positive, with stable local demand and continued ongoing recovery in export markets. Compared to the synthetic production process Natural soda ash, process used in the USA, requires lower amounts of energy and emits lower volumes of carbon dioxide. Energy costs in the USA are expected to remain lower compared to other regions. Both coal and natural gas prices are expected to reduce over the course of 2023, making exports from the USA competitive in Latin America, Australia and South East Asia.
Tata Chemicals North America is one of the leading soda ash manufacturers in the country, with ~20% capacity share of the US domestic market. With our recent exit from ANSAC, our direct connect with global customers has now increased allowing us to focus on growing export opportunities.
TCL exit
from ANSACSince its inception in 1984, ANSAC has marketed and supplied soda ash to export markets. Tata Chemicals started exit from ANSAC on December 31, 2022. As part of the exit agreement, ANSAC will continue to provide logistics services for USA exports in the medium term.
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