“Saurashtra Chemicals Ltd.” Porbandar which is known as SAUKHEM is one of the largest Soda Ash manufacturing units in the country. SAUKEM situated besides the Arabian Sea of Porbandar (Gujarat), well known as the birth place of Mahatma Gandhi. It was established in 1956 under flagship of Jiyaji Rao Cotton Mill Gwalior. It started its production December 1959.As far as position is concerned Tata chemicals starts first, then GHCL is second and SAUKEM stands third in India. SAUKEM has come a long way since then firmly establishing itself in high quality product and making remarkable improvements both in service and quality of products. Its main products are Soda Ash (Dense & Light), Soda Bicarb, Caustic Lye and Bromine. It started with installed capacity of 66,000 tones per year. Today is has achieved 3,65,000 tones per year. Selection of Porbandar as a site for the location of this factory was easy availability of raw material. The factors are:- >> Main raw material, which is obtained from limestone’s, is near to factory. >> Other necessary Raw Material like Salt & Sea water are near due to sea cost. >> Basic need like electricity is cheaper in Gujarat as compare to other states. >> Porbandar is well connected by road, sea rail, & airways to major cities. The main production of Saurashtra chemicals Ltd. (SAUKEM) are Soda Ash (Dense And Light) Soda Bicarb Caustic Lye Bromine The main raw materials for manufacturing of Soda Ash are lime Stone, Salt Hard Coke and Ammonia Gas. SAUKEM has its own Lime Stone Quarries in the vicinity of around 20-25 kilometers away from the factory and also has its own Salt Works in Jamnagar District. SAUKEM has its won power House of 15 Megawatt capacity for captive consumption. Over the years we have worked on various plants in Saukem, Porbandar which include 1. Vertical line Kiln 2. Calciner 3. Wet section 3. Man Boiler 4. Thermal Power Plant 5. Coal Plant For all these plant we have upgraded their SCADA system into new available Proficy iFIX versions according to the time of project. Recently in Coal plant we upgraded GE CIMPLICITY SCADA system which was outdated and also added some new features such as data logging, alarm logging and reports which are user friendly.
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