Nagda Site

Production Sites Jhagadia and Nagda

JHAGADIA SITE

At its site in Jhagadia, LANXESS has production facilities for its three business units Liquid Purification Technologies, Material Protection Products and Rhein Chemie. A greenfield investment of LANXESS, the site in Jhagadia is one of the large production sites of the company in India. It is located within the Jhagadia Chemical Park in Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC). ANXESS has invested over EUR 70 million (approx. INR 500 cr) at the site between 2008 and 2013 and has created around 330 new jobs.

This includes:

  • Relocation and upgradation of the Rubber Chemicals plant
  • Opening of the Ion Exchange Resins plant
  • Relocation of the assets of the plants for polymer bound rubber chemicals and release agents from Rhein Chemie and the plant for Material Protection Products from Madurai to Jhagadia


The utility services at the site are:

  • Effluents treatment plant
  • Off-gas incinerator
  • Cogeneration plant fuelled by natural gas, Solo-NOx model attached for eliminating nitrogenous gas emissions
  • Sewage treatment plant
  • Occupational health centre
     
    The site in Jhagadia is a key manufacturing base for LANXESS globally and has been built to world class standards. The production facilities as well as the utility services at the site ensure safe and environmentally responsible operations. Given our global expertise, the site’s locational advantage and infrastructure and the Indian chemical industry’s positive outlook for business, the site serves as a perfect hub to supply our customers not only in the rapidly-growing local market but also in the Asia-Pacific region.


NAGDA SITE

The LANXESS India Nagda site is located around 125 kms away from Indore in the state of Madhya Pradesh. The operations in Nagda are a part of the Advanced Industrial Intermediates business unit of LANXESS. The products manufactured at this site are supplied to the domestic market and exported to countries around the world, for a wide range of end applications like agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, dyestuff, fragrances, paints and coatings among others.

The site in Nagda, spanning more than 20 hectares, has consistently delivered outstanding results with a constant focus on quality and customer satisfaction. LANXESS is significantly investing in the site on sustainability projects, process improvements and further expansions.

The site has been setting new standards of sustainability in the Indian chemical industry. It has adopted various world class practices. For example, the site is ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 certified and follows innovative practices like Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Total Quality Management (TQM) and energy saving ‘Kaizen’.

Besides the production facilities, the site boasts of utility services like:

  • Cogeneration plant fuelled by biomass, saves around 120,000 tons of CO2 emissions every year
  • Effluent treatment plant
  • Sewage treatment plant
  • Waste water post treatment plant
  • Off-gas incinerator
  • Occupational health centre

LANXESS has also carried out several corporate social responsibility projects in the area of education and for protection of the environment in the region.