Godrej Industries Limited
(Formely Known as Godrej Soaps
Ltd.)
The Godrej Group set up
in 1897 has grown to a $1.1 billion conglomerate, powered by a work
force of 20,000. Strategic alliances with G.E. appliance, Pillsbury and
Sara Lee have exposed the company to the opportunities and challenges
of globelisation.
Godrej Soaps Ltd.,
Godrej Group Company besides manufacturing soaps is also a leading producer
of oleochemicals. At its modern integrated factory in glycerine, fatty
alcohols,alpha olefins and alpha
olefins sulphonates.
The plant has a
installed capacity of 30,000 TPA for making Natural Fatty Alcohols from
feedstocks
such as palm stearing and kernel oil, which are renewable vegetable based
raw materials. The plant is
controlled with Tata-Honeywell's TDC-3000 Distributed Control Systems.
The plant is designed
by Lurgi, based on its fatty acid hydrogenation process and engineered
by Davy
Powergas India Ltd. a subsidory of Jphn Brown of U.K. The Factory has
a well equipped laboratory
for quality control and product application.
Products
from the plant exposed to North and South America, Asia, Europe, Australia
and Africa
SPECIAICATION OF GODREJ STEARIC
ACIDS
GODREJ offer a range of Stearic
Acids to meet the varied requirements of industry. Those products have
been tailor-made in an automated plant-the latest of its kind. Strict
production controls results in concistent and high quality. The feature
of GODREJ Distilled Stearic Acid is their exceptionally high stability.
Their availability in frea-flowing flakes are easier to melt and measure
and also eliminate dust nuisance and contamination.
| CHARACTERISTICS |
|
| |
Hystric |
Hytitre |
Textric |
Textric (spl) |
Distric |
Calstic |
Plastric |
| Lodine
Number (max.) |
3 |
3 |
3 |
5 |
9 |
3 |
3 |
| Titre
Dog.Cen. |
54-56 |
65-66 |
61-65 |
58-61 |
58-64 |
61-62 |
53-55 |
| Saponification
no. |
207-212 |
197-200 |
197-204 |
202-208 |
200-212 |
200-202 |
211-216 |
| Acid
Number |
206-210 |
195-200 |
196-202 |
200-206 |
198-210 |
192-200 |
210-215 |
| Ash
(%) max. |
0.1 |
0.1 |
0.1 |
0.1 |
0.1 |
0.1 |
0.1 |
| Colour
in 6 1/4' |
2.0Y |
3.0Y |
3.0Y |
8.0Y |
10.0Y |
3R-15Y |
1R-3Y |
| Lovibond
Cell |
0.5R |
1.0R |
1.0R |
1.0R |
3.0R |
|
|
| Standard
Form |
Snow |
Snow |
Snow |
White |
Creamish |
|
|
| |
Flakes |
Flakes |
Flakes |
|
Flake |
White |
White |
| Conforms to ISI
Grade |
1@ |
2 |
|
|
3 |
|
|
| Suggested
Application |
Cosmetic pharmaceutica Foods & Chemicals Stearatesl
|
Metal Polish |
Cosmetics Chemical Speciality |
Chemical Metalic |
Speciality Stearates |
Activated Calcium Carbon |
Speciality Chemicals |
|