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ABB
Asea Boveri Brown (ABB) is a global leader in power and automation technology
that enables utility and industry customers to improve performance while
reducing environmental impact. ABB's state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in
Vadodara is a global sourcing base for outdoor and indoor circuit breakers. The
ABB Group operates in 100 countries. In India it has a vast installed base,
extensive local manufacturing and a countrywide marketing and service presence.
ABB posted revenues of US$ 327 million in 2003.
AT&T India
AT&T India, a subsidiary of AT&T, USA, is based in Gujarat since 1984. The
company has established a brand name in the telecom services sector. It offers
networking and communication equipment to telecom operators. In collaboration
with the Aditya V Birla Group, AT&T operates Idea Cellular in Gujarat. AT&T is a
three-time winner of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in the US, and
winner of Japan's Deming Prize and Taiwan's National Quality Award.
Bayer
Bayer AG, the German chemical giant, is a Fortune 500 company with global
sales of US$ 33 billion. Represented by 350 companies across five continents, it
has a total workforce of I 15,400 people. Its business operations are the
responsibility of the subgroups - Bayer HealthCare AG, Bayer CropScience AG and
Bayer MaterialScience AG. In Gujarat, the company operates through Bayer
CropScience Ltd, Bayer Diagnostics India Ltd and Bilag Industries Private Ltd.
Bosch Rexroth (India) Ltd
Bosch Rexroth (India) Ltd, a subsidiary of
Bosch Rexroth AG, Germany, was established in 1975. The company provides
comprehensive drive and control solutions in industrial and mobile applications through hydraulics, electric
drives and controls, linear drives and guides, pneumatics. The company has close
to 300 employees and recorded total sales of US$ 23 million in 2003. Its
facility at Ahmedabad manufactures hydraulic valves, pumps, blocks, cylinders
and power units. Bosch has sales offices, service centres and training centres
in Ahmedabad serving customers in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
British Gas
British Gas is a leading player in the global energy market. In India, the
company has a majority shareholding (65 per cent) in Gujarat Gas Company Ltd.
The company's principal lines of business are natural gas distribution,
transmission systems, compressed natural gas (CNG), gas supplies and natural
gas. E.I. Dupont
Dupont India became a wholly owned subsidiary of E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and
Company Inc., USA, in 1994. The company has invested close to US$ 80 million in India and manufactures Tynex toothbrush bristles, Teflon
non-stick coating, engineering polymers, crop protection products and pioneer
seeds. The company's facility in Savli, Gujarat, manufactures crop protection
products and engineering polymers. Essar Group
The Essar Group has been in business since the 1800s and has a major presence
in steel production, shipping, oil and gas, power, telecom and construction.
Essar Steel has a state-of-the-art steel complex in Hazira, Gujarat. Essar
Shipping Ltd (ESL) is one of the world's leading integrated sea logistics companies with an asset
capitalisation of US$ I billion. The Group reported an annual turnover of US$
2.08 billion in 2004. Essar has consistently set new standards of excellence in
the Indian power sector and it supplies around 7 per cent of Gujarat's power.
GE Plastics India Ltd
(GEPIL)
GE Plastics India Ltd is a 50:50 joint
venture between Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd (IPCL) and General
Electric Plastics BV, Netherlands. The company has a world-class plant for
advanced engineering plastics, alloys, blends and compounds at Vadodara in Gujarat. With a present capacity of 25,000 tonnes per annum,
it manufactures a wide range of GE's proprietary products. In 1996, GEPIL also
became the first global manufacturing site of General Electric Plastics to start
manufacturing GELON* (Polyamide-6) compounds.
General Motors India
General Motors India is a collaboration between General Motors and Hindustan
Motors. Its manufacturing plant is located at Halol, 40 km north of Vadodara in
Gujarat. The state-of-the-art plant manufactures the Opel range: Astra, Corsa
and Swing. Since inception, the company has invested about US$ 73 million in the
Astra project and about US$ 22 million in the Corsa project.
Grasim Industries Ltd
Grasim Industries Ltd, incorporated in 1947, originally a textile manufacturer, successfully diversified into Viscose Staple Fibre (VSF) cement, sponge iron and chemicals. The first phase of Grasim's fourth VSF plant was commissioned in Kharach, Gujarat, in 1996. It is now a global leader in VSF, the country's largest merchant producer of sponge iron and the second-largest caustic soda maker in India and poised to be India's largest cement manufacturer.
Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF)
Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation is a state level apex body of milk cooperatives in Gujarat and one of India's largest food products marketing organisations. With about 2.28 million producer members, its total milk handling capacity is about 6.7 million litres per day. The company has a wide range of products under its flagship brand Amul. These include milk and milk products, ice creams, chocolates, confectioneries and beverages. The company achieved a total turnover of about US$ 575 million during 2002-03, recording a growth of 15 per cent over the previous year.
Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd (GACL)
Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd is
India's leading manufacturer and exporter of cement. It is also India's most
profitable cement company and the world's least cost cement producer. GACL is
the only cement company to be awarded the National Quality Award and the first
Indian cement company to receive an ISO 9002 quality certification.
Gujarat State Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd
Gujarat State Fertilisers &
Chemicals Ltd operates in three business segments: fertiliser products,
caprolactam and nylon products. It also manufactures nylon-6, nylon filament yarn, nylon chips and melamine and polymer products.
Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilisers Company Ltd (GNFCL)
Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilisers Company Ltd is a joint venture company
between GSFC and the Gujarat Government. GNFC has the largest fuel-based ammonia
plant in the world. It is also the largest single stream urea plant to be
commissioned in the world. This project was set with an investment of about US$
100 million at Bharuch, Gujarat.
Huber Chemicals India Ltd
Huber Chemicals India Ltd is a subsidiary of JM Huber Corp, Germany. It is in the chemicals and engineering business and has a facility at Jhagadia, an industrial estate in Bharuch, Gujarat.
Ingersoll-Rand India Ltd (IRIL)
Ingersoll-Rand India Ltd was
established in 1926. The company has interests in fields of air solutions and
infrastructure. IRIL has a plant in Naroda, near Ahmedabad. The Naroda facility
is ISO 9001 certified and caters to a major chunk of the global demand for
air-cooled reciprocating air compressors (T 30). The metrology laboratory at
this facility is one of the few sophisticated laboratories in India with
facilities to conduct tests as per ISI/BSI standards.
Lalbhai Group
The Lalbhai Group, founded in 1908 has grown to become one of India's most diversified business houses, with a significant presence in the textiles, ready-to-wear, agro-chemicals and telecom industries. Arvind Mills Ltd, one of the Group companies, is one of the world's largest producers of denim fabric. Atul Ltd is a
leading manufacturer and exporter of over 500 high quality products, including
agrochemicals, bulk drugs and bulk drug intermediates, cresols and cresol
derivatives, dyes and dye intermediates, epoxy resins and epoxy hardeners,
formaldehyde, specialty chemicals and wood adhesives.
Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T)
Larsen & Toubro Ltd is one of India's largest engineering and construction companies. The company has its heavy engineering workshops at Hazira, which manufactures reactors, pressure vessels, columns and heat exchangers for various industries. L&T's workshops are ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001:1996 and OHSAS 18001:1999 certified.
Matsushita
Matsushita of Japan is a leader in battery products worldwide. In India,
Matsushita has a joint venture with the Lakhanpal Group. The company
manufactures batteries and battery appliances under the brand Novino and its
plant is located at Makarpura Industrial Estate, Vadodara, in Gujarat.
Nirma
Nirma, a US$ 351 million company, is another of Gujarat's success stories. The company has multi-locational integrated manufacturing facilities and a broad product
portfolio under its umbrella brand, Nirma. It manufactures India's largest
selling detergent powder and exports to the Middle East and other countries. The
company has planned backward and forward integration projects and is focusing on
a strong R&D base for continuous product development.
Novartis India Ltd
Novartis India Ltd is a US$ 100 million company that employs close to 1,000
people. The company has two manufacturing facilities, at Kandla and Panoliplant
in Gujarat, which manufactures pharmaceuticals and agrochemical intermediates.
In India, Novartis has collaborations with several domestic players, including
Dr Reddy's, Torrent and Biocon.
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL)
Reliance Industries Ltd is the largest
and one of the fastest growing private sector companies in India, with business
activities encompassing all major sectors, such as oil & gas exploration and
production, petroleum refining and marketing, petrochemicals and textiles.
Reliance's Jamnagar complex, a fully integrated petroleum refinery, is the
largest industrial project ever implemented by an Indian company. Set up with an
investment of US$ 6 billion, the complex has a petrochemical unit, a power
generation complex, a port, terminals and access to a pipeline network. It is the world's largest grass roots refinery, the
world's largest delayed coking unit, fluidised catalytic cracking unit and TAME
(Tertiary Amy I Methyl Ether) unit.
Royal Dutch Shell
The Shell Group is a world leader in the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
business. In Gujarat, Shell's Hazira project is the largest of its ventures in
India with the company having invested over US$ 600 million. The company's
operation at Hazira is considered to be the highest ever FDI in a greenfield
project in India. The project includes a port and an LNG terminal together with
infrastructure that can handle 5 million metric tonnes of LNG per annum.
Siemens Ltd
Siemens Ltd is a 54.6 per cent subsidiary of Siemens AG. Based in Ahmedabad,
the subsidiary manufactures electrical equipment, medical equipment, railway
signalling equipment, telecom and data communication equipment and a host of
other electrical products. The company has over 4,000 employees and a revenue of
over US$ 315 million.
Torrent Group
Torrent Group's flagship Torrent Pharmaceuticals established its first
manufacturing facility at Vatva in Gujarat in 1980. Its second plant began
operations in 1989 in Mehsana district. These facilities manufacture bulk drugs
and formulations. The manufacturing facilities have received ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18000 (Occupational Health and Safety Management System)
certifications and the IDMA (Indian Drug Manufacturing Association) Gold Award
for the year 2002.
Tata Chemicals Limited
An ISO-9001 /14001 certified company, Tata
Chemicals Limited is India's leading manufacturer and marketer of inorganic
chemicals and fertilisers. Established in 1939, Tata Chemicals operates India's
largest manufacturing facility for soda ash at its integrated chemical complex
at Mithapur on the Gujarat coast in Western India and is also among the world's
largest producers of synthetic Soda Ash. Its range of chemicals produced at the
Gujarat plant includes - apart from soda ash - caustic soda, salt, cement,
sodium bicarbonate, bromine and bromine based compounds and gypsum. The plant
has an installed capacity of 875,000 tonnes of soda ash, nearly 35 per cent of
the country's capacity.
The 'avoid, reduce and recycle' philosophy that the company follows is
exemplified best at its cement plant at Mithapur. The company is also a
signatory to Responsible Care, a voluntary global initiative of the Chemical
industry that demonstrates allegiance to safety, health and environmental
issues. Mithapur has won the highest British Safety Council 5-star rating. The
company has also developed the Mithapur salt works as a natural habitat for
thousands of migratory birds and is pioneering marine conservation efforts
through its active participation and support of the Whale Shark project.
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