Building Bridges Across Continents Tci Sanmar Chemicals, Sae, Egypt

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TCI Sanmar Chemicals S.A.E. is one of the key constituent companies of The Sanmar Group. The group acquired Trust Chemical Industries LLC in Port Said, Egypt, in March 2007 and rechristened it. TCI Sanmar manufactures caustic soda based on membrane technology with a capacity of 200,000 tonnes per annum (tpa).

The company has completed the first phase of expansion involving expansion of Caustic Soda capacity to 275,000 tpa, setting up a new Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) plant with a capacity of 150,000 tpa and a Poly Vinyl Chloride (PVC) plant with a capacity of 200,000 tpa. The PVC production is expected to be commissioned in November 2011 using imported Ethylene Di Chloride (EDC) as a feedstock.

The second phase of expansion involving setting up of a 185,000 tpa Ethylene manufacturing plant with imported Ethanol as raw material and expansion of PVC capacity by another 200,000 tpa, is going to be taken up for implementation shortly.

Phase 1 expansion involving an investment of USD 900 million has been funded by equity from Sanmar including cash from operations of around USD 300 million and the balance ...
... has been funded by loans from ten Indian banks.

Phase 2 expansion involving an investment of USD 300 million to be completed over the next two years will result in a total PVC capacity of 400,000 tpa with renewable raw material source (Bio-Ethanol). This facility will be the largest integrated facility in the region.

School at Port Said

A cooperation protocol for establishing a school for basic education (primary and preparatory) has been entered between the company and the Port Said Governorate on 4 May 2011, as per which TCI Sanmar will fund the school building construction up to 5 million LE upon area 50,000m2 with a capacity of thirty classrooms, a library, playground and facilities for entertainment activities.

Visit of Indian Ambassador

Mr. R Swaminathan, Ambassador of India to Egypt, visited the plant facilities. TCI Sanmar has set up a unique Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) facility at Port Said which will ensure that not a drop of effluent is discharged anywhere outside the factory. All the liquid effluent will be fully treated, recycled and reused. This is first of its kind in Egypt

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