Aarti Industries Limited is one of the most competitive and highly integrated benzene-based speciality chemical company in the world. The Company is a rare instance of a global speciality chemicals company that combines process chemistry competence (recipe focus) with scale-up of engineering competence (asset utilisation). The Company has evolved as an Indian multinational selecting to manufacture out of India and servicing the varied needs of the global markets. It has a strong presence across a wide range of chemistries with base raw materials such as benzene, toluene, nitric acid, chlorine, methanol, aniline, and sulphur among others. It pioneered in introducing various product value chains and introducing new chemistries.
The company serves leading consumers across the globe of Speciality Chemicals and Intermediate for Agro Chemicals, Aromatics, Dyes, Fuel Additives, Pharmaceuticals, Pigments, Polymer Additives, Printing Inks, Surfactants and various other speciality chemicals. It operates three state-of-the-art R&D centres, one for Speciality Chemicals and the other for Pharmaceutical APIs.
Aarti Industries Limited was incorporated on September 28, 1984 as 'Aarti Organics Limited'. The company was promoted by Chandrakant V Gogri and Associates. The name of the Company was subsequently changed from Aarti Organics Limited to Aarti Industries Limited in 1995.
In 1986, the company commenced commercial operations of 1,200 Tonnes Per Annum (TPA) unit for Nitro Chloro Benzenes (NCB) in Sarigram, Gujarat.
In the year 1990, the company expanded the capacity of PNCB/ONCB (organics division) from 1200 TPA to 4500 TPA. During the year 1994-95, they further expanded their organics division in four phases.
During the year 1998-99, the company enhanced the installed capacity of PNCB/ONCB from 15,000 TPA to 22,000 TPA. During the year 1999-2000, they further increased their capacity to 30,000 TPA. In the year 2001, the company commissioned manufacturing operat