Our Milestones

GHCL – Incorporated on

14^th October 1983

01 January 2015

1988 - 2000

Commenced Soda Ash Production with 4.2 Lakh MTPA which was further increased to 5.25 Lakh MTPA
Commenced Edible Salt Production and launched ‘Sapan’ salt

01 January 2015

2001 - 2008

Soda Ash capacity increased to 8.5 Lakh MTPA
Entered Spinning business with 65 K spindles subsequently increased to 140 K
Commissioned Home Textile plant with 36 mn meters processing capacity and 96 airjet looms
Commissioned Refined Sodium Bicarbonate plant

01 January 2015

2009 - 2015

Spindles capacity increased to 175 K, Installed 3320 rotors in spinning
Launch of ‘i-FLO’ salt and ‘i-Flo Honey’
Home Textiles Air jet looms capacity increased to 162

01 January 2015

2016 - 2018

Soda Ash production capacity increased to 9.75 Lacs MTPA
Doubled Sodium bicarbonate capacity to 60 K MTPA
Added TFOs for value added yarn and Air jet spinning
Home textiles, processing capacity increased to 45 Mn meters with total 190 Air jet weaving looms

01 January 2015

2019 - 2020

Soda Ash production capacity to be increased to 11 Lacs MTPA tons / year by FY2019
GHCL will be the single largest manufacturer of soda ash in India at a single location
Increase Soda Ash production by another 1.25 Lacs MT by Mar’20
Envisaged Rs. 150 Crore capital allocation for Volume growth and modernization in spinning

01 January 2015

2021 - 2022

Divestment of Home Textile Business
Refined Bicarb production capacity increased to 75 K MTPA
60 K MTPA production facility to be commissioned by Oct’22
20 MW Solar power projects commissioned in FY22 of which 10 MW commissioned in January 2022 + 10 MW commissioned in March 2022 to enhance Yarn Division’s Renewable energy portfolio
Soda Ash Greenfield project will be operational with 5,00,000 tons/year

01 January 2015

2022 - 2023

Enhancing the capacity of yarn division by 40000 spindles during 2022-23, commissioning is expected in June 2022
Upcoming Solar power projects in 2022-23
10MW solar plant in July-22
2 MW roof top solar power plant by Sep 22
10 MW solar plant by March 23.
Once these plants are commissioned the yarn division will be producing 69.2 MW of renewable power which will fulfil 80% of its power requirements.

01 January 2015

2023 - 2024

Soda Ash production capacity increased to 12 Lacs MTPA
Sodium Bicarbonate production capacity increased to 0.12 MTPA
GHCL’s Yarn division demerged into a separate company – GHCL Textiles Limited