Thirumalai Chemicals Limited
Thirumalai Chemicals Limited (TCL) started its operations in 1976 at Ranipet in Tamil Nadu as a single product petrochemical company manufacturing phthalic anhydride, with a production capacity of 6,000 TPA. The company is a part of the Thirumalai Group, which has business interests in chemicals, surfactants, pigments and education. Over the years, TCL has expanded its PAN manufacturing capacity to ~1,45,000 TPA and has added other products to its portfolio, which includes food additives such as maleic acid and fumaric acid, PAN derivatives such as di-ethyl phthalate (DEP) and phthalimide (PID). TCL caters to customers in the construction, auto, paint, food, personal care and pharma industries. The company has developed a low energy process, which enables it to meet ~90% of its power requirements through waste heat recovery. It also has a maleic anhydride manufacturing facility in Malaysia, under its step-down subsidiary, Optimistic Organic Sdn. Bhd. (OOSB) Established ope...