By: Ravi Desai
Last updated : June 15, 2022 9:31 am
With Tanfac acquisition, Anupam will become one of the rare companies who can manufacture HF/KF, intermediates based on HF/KF, advance intermediates and finally active ingredients/end products
Anupam Rasayan India Limited (ARIL) is a manufacturer of life science and other specialty chemicals, with its plants located in Sachin industrial region and Jhagadia industrial region of Gujarat state of India. The company has currently 7 manufacturing sites.
The company is a manufacturer and supplier of a wide range of products from agrochemicals (actives and advanced intermediates), pharmaceutical intermediates, and polymer intermediates to biocides, combining excellent product quality and competitive pricing. Our strength is the multi-step synthesis processes, which is rare in the custom manufacturing industry.
ARIL has expanded its research and development (R&D) centre, to provide impetus in promoting process optimization, enhancing safety, environment sustainability and curtailing the costs.
Despite the ongoing pandemic and its deep impact on supply chains and various facets of the businesses, the company was able to keep all of its production and supporting operations running at full capacity due to the adequate safeguards put in place as well as the flexible work practices.
The company performs many chemistries as part of its core strength. Among these chemistries, Fluorination (Halex Reaction) using Potassium Fluoride is a key chemistry, which the Company performs on a very large scale and is a leading player in India with production capacity of 4000 – 5000 MT/Year.
Anupam Rasayan India is also expanding the current capacity by adding new Fluorination block with again around 4000 Tons/Year capacity based on the commitments received from customers in Japan, Europe and USA.
The company aims to become an entity recognised worldwide for the quality of its products, technology and ability to work with the complex chemistries. The company has newly commercialized the following processes: (1) Cryogenic Reaction, (2) Ammoxidation, (3) Sodium Azide Chem[1]istry, (4) Denitro Chlorination, (5) Photo Chlorination, (6) Photo Bromination.
The Indian manufacturer has further also selected the chemical processes like (1) Hoffmann Rearrangement, (2) Cyclopropane Chemistry, (3) Ethylene Oxide Chemistry, (4) Isobutylene Reaction, (5) Chlorination using POCl3 and PCl5, (6) Butyl Lithium Chemistry, (7) Pinner Reaction and (8) Vilsmeier Haack Reaction to be implemented in future.
In a bid to optimize production processes, the company is moving from batch production to continuous production in addition to updating its manufacturing equipment and infrastructure. The new R&D centre focuses on plug flow reactors with installations of Corning G1 and G4 advanced flow reactors.
ARIL is committed to conduct its operations in environmentally sustainable manner, and has been achieving it with the help of zero liquid discharge (ZLD) plants, soil biotechnology, effluent treatment plant, multi-effect evap[1]orators and other such environment pollution control equipment. The company also plans to invest in renewable energy and further strengthen its effluent control systems.
The company has recently acquired Tanfac Industries Limited (Tanfac). Tanfac is a large-scale manufacture engaged in the manufacturing of Anhydrous Hydrofluoric acid (16000 Tons/Year), Aluminium Fluoride, Potassium Fluoride (2500 Tons/Year), Potassium Bifluoride, Boron Trifluoride Complexes and various other Fluorinating agents.
As Anupam is largest consumer of Potassium Fluoride, Tanfac is strategical acquisition for Anupam giving access to our own HF and KF. Anupam is already large scale manufacture of Fluorination using KF and with this acqui[1]sition, Anupam plans to starting Fluorination using HF therefore this will catapult Anupam in a new phase of products which are not manufactured in India.
Anupam plans to expand Tanfac’s HF and KF capacities to support Anupam’s new products which are Intermediates & Advance Intermediates Anupam is working for leading customers in Japan, Europe and USA. The products Anupam is working will be consumed in Agrochemicals, Pharma[1]ceuticals and Polymers (Fluoro Elastomers and Fluoro Electrolytes) which will be supported by In-house HF and KF from Tanfac.
Strategy for Tanfac and Anupam:
Along with expanding HF and KF capacities at Tanfac, Anupam also plans to build new plants for manufacturing new Fluoro Advance Intermediates Anupam is discussing with customers. These products require lot of technology know-how therefore they are not manufactured in India and Anupam has already developed many of the products for customers.
With Tanfac acquisition, Anupam will become one of the rare companies who can manufacture HF/KF, Intermediates based on HF/KF, Advance Intermediates and finally Active Ingredients/End Products therefore offering the value chain and further enhancing the multi-step synthesis capabilities.
It has started phase-wise commercial production in its new plant located at Jhagadia industrial complex in Gujarat; upon commercialisation of the entire plant the combined production capacity of the company will become more than 40,000 MT/PA.
Anupam is also in trade negotiations with various Japanese Agrochemical, Pharmaceutical and Polymer manufacturing companies and, in addition, hopes that Japanese industry will be keen to use its new intermediates and AIs for use in the production of high-performance polymers, resins, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals.