The Sanmar Foundries' Unit 2 large flaskless moulding line was commissioned on 26 June 2008 at Viralimalai near Trichy. The sand foundry facilities will now have a capacity of 30,000 tonnes per annum of steel castings.
With expanded capacities and state-of- the-art equipment, Sanmar Foundries is now ready to tap the world wide potential in the valves, transportation, construction and mining sector. With the combined capabilities of Matrix Metals'steel foundries in the US,Sanmar's steel foundry business is well on its way to be counted among the best in the world.
P Natarajan starts the 60 ton mixer.
Auspicious beginnings - Puja before production trials.
Production plant to consignee - shipped direct. Chemplast Sanmar's marine terminal facility at Karaikal was completed in August 2007. With the commissioning of the ethylene dichloride facility, the Karaikal unit was geared to transport imported ethylene directly from ship to production facility. The 1.6 km stretch of pipeline extending into the sea lets ships to dock and transfer material safely throught he cryogenic stainless steel pipelines, minimising intermediate material handling. For the first time, this facility was used to transport the finished product, caustic soda lye from the jetty directly on to the vessel.
On 26 April 2008, the vessel Or a m Bricks docked at the marine terminal and about 4,500 liquid metric tonnes of caustic sodalye consigned to National Aluminium Company Limited headed for Visakhapatnam straight from the production unit.
Fisher Sanmar's large valve plant facility was inaugurated by Terry D Buzbee in January 2007. The plant completed various phases of installations and trials and is fully operational since March 2008. The facility now has a capacity of about 800 large valves.