Chembond Chemicals Limited.

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Chembond is a BSE listed company, established in 1975, with group sales of over Rs. 250 crores and 700 employees.

Chembond manufactures Metal Treatment Chemicals and Water Treatment Chemicals in joint ventures with global leaders Henkel, Germany and Ashland, USA respectively. We are the market leaders in these products in India with sales to the automotive, steel, petrochemical, power, appliance, engineering, fertilizer and pharma industries.

Chembond also manufactures construction chemicals for the building construction and infrastructure sectors and high performance coatings for structural protection from corrosion, floors and walls in clean rooms and shop floors and building exteriors. Chembond`s newest project in biotechnology promises to improve industrial applications using the technology of the future.

Chembond`s modern, well-equipped and multi-purpose manufacturing and blending plants are located at Tarapur, Maharashtra; Baddi, Himachal Pradesh and Dudhwada, Gujarat. Additional blending plants are located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and Balasore, Orissa. Warehouses and branch offices are located at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Faridabad, Jamshedpur, Kolkata and Pune.

The Chembond Group companies include:

Chembond Chemicals Limited
Chembond Ashland Water Technologies Limited
Henkel Chembond Surface Technologies Limited
Chembond Enzymes Company Limited
CCL Building Systems Limited

Company growth over the years

2010

Joint Venture with H₂O Innovation Inc, Canada offering equipment solutions for water treatment.

2010

Plant at Sitarganj, Uttrakhand.

2008

Plant at Dudhwada, Gujarat.

2006

Plant at Baddi, Himachal Pradesh.

2002

Children Activity Center � Boisar, Maharashtra.

2002

Launch of environmental bio-products.

2001

Takeover of Drewtreat Chemicals Limited and simultaneous Joint Venture with Ashland Inc, USA for Water treatment chemicals.

1997

Joint Venture with Henkel KGaA, Germany for Metal treatment chemicals.

1995

Chembond IPO, shares listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

1994

Technology transfer agreement with Freiborne, USA, for manufacture of cold forming lubricants for the wire drawing industry. Diversification into manufacturing Anticorrosive coatings, Construction chemicals, Maintenance products and Water treatment plants.

1992

Expansion of facilities at Tarapur, doubling factory premises and substantially increasing the production capacity.

1983

Diversification into manufacture of Cooling water treatment chemicals.

1979

Construction of a manufacturing plant at Tarapur.

1975

Incorporation of the company as Chembond Chemicals Private Limited on March 22, 1975. Chemicals offered were for Pre-treatment of metallic surfaces.

Henkel Chembond Surface Technologies Ltd. is a Joint Venture between Henkel KGaA and Chembond Chemicals Ltd in operation since 1997. Henkel owns 51% of the JVC and Chembond, owns the balance 49%. Henkel is a global specialty products company and is the world's largest metal chemical supplier with a market share of over 65%.

Chembond Ashland Water Technologies Ltd. is a Joint Venture between Chembond Chemicals Ltd and Ashland Inc., USA. The JV was a result of Chembond's acquisition of Drewtreat Chemicals Limited, and simultaneous merger of its water treatment business into the company.

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