| Century Textiles and Industries Ltd. was incorporated in 1897 as a Public Limited Company with its Registered Office at Mumbai. Till 1951, the Company operated only one Cotton Textile Mill in Mumbai. Thereafter, the Company has made rapid progress in expanding and diversifying its activities and today it is a well diversified
conglomerate. The details of activities presently being carried on by the Company are as under :-
(I) Business Segment – Textiles
a) Cotton Textiles, Yarn and Denim
The Textile mill at Worli, Mumbai is unavailable because of technical limitations of the machinery, comparatively high labour cost, government levies, water and electricity charges. Although serious efforts were made to continue to operate the mill on a reduced scale, in view of relentless rise in costs, it was not viable. Accordingly, a Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) was introduced in the mill as a result of which over 6300 workers and staff which constitutes more than 95% of the total strength have opted for Retirement during the months of November and December 2006. Consequently, the manufacturing operations at the mill have effectively ceased.
The Company's Yarn Division situated at Satrati, near Indore, (Madhya Pradesh) is equipped with 24960 spindles for manufacture of Yarn and produced about 5,088 tonnes of yarn during 2006-2007. The Denim Division of the Company situated at the same location i.e. Satrati, near Indore, (Madhya Pradesh) can produce 21 million meters of denim fabrics per annum.
It has been decided to set up a new Textile Mill as a separate division of the Company named as “Birla Century” with about three hundred looms and nearly one lac spindles at GIDC Industiral Estate, Jhagadia, Dist. Bharuch in the state of Gujarat with manufacturing capacity of about twenty five million meters of fabrics per annum, along with a captive thermal power plant of 30 MW at a total estimated capital expenditure of upto Rs. 725 crore. The mill is expected to be commissioned by about June, 2008.
Century Textiles -
Plant, Worli, Mumbai,
Maharashtra |
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Century Yarn -
Satrati,
Madhya Pradesh |
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Century Denim -
Satrati,
Madhya Pradesh |
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b) Century Rayon - VFY, CSY & Rayon Tyre Yarn
In 1956, Company began its Rayon Division at Kalyan, near Mumbai to manufacture Viscose Filament Rayon Yarn and today it is one of the largest producer of Viscose Filament Yarn (VFY) in India. In 1963, it also commenced production of Viscose Tyre Yarn / Industrial Yarn followed by production of Caustic Soda in 1964 and other chemicals. At Century Chemicals, Jamnagar, the company is producing industrial salt mainly for captive consumption. Other details can be looked into Annual Report of the company.
The installed capacity of the items manufactured at Century Rayon, Kalyan as on 31-03-2007 are as under :-
| Item |
Installed Capacity per annum
(Metric Tonnes) |
Viscose Filament Yarn and Viscose Tyre Yarn/Industrial Yarn
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| (all together) |
25,000 |
| Caustic Soda |
20,000 |
| Sulphuric Acid |
71,000 |
| Carbon-di-Sulphide |
18,000 |
| Liquid Chlorine |
17,000 |
| Hydrochloric Acid |
19,241 |
| Compressed Hydrogen M3 |
50,00,000 |
 Century Rayon -
Kalyan,
Maharashtra |
(II) Business Segment - Cement
In 1974, the Company diversified into production of Cement by establishing its first cement plant at Baikunth, near Raipur (Chhattisgarh) to produce 0.60 million Tonnes Per Annum (TPA) of Portland Cement. The present capacity is 1.80 million TPA which is likely to be increased to 2.10 million TPA by september, 2007.
In 1980, the Company established its second Portland Cement plant at Maihar (Madhya Pradesh) with a capacity of 0.80 million TPA. The present capacity is 1.80 million TPA.
In 1985, the Company established its third Portland Cement plant at Gadchandur, Dist. Chandrapur ( Maharashtra ) with a capacity of 1 million TPA. The present capacity is 1.50 million TPA which is likely to be increased to 1.90 million TPA by september, 2007.
In 1995-96, the Company's fourth Portland Cement Plant with a capacity of 1 million TPA adjacent to the existing plant at Maihar started commercial production. The present capacity is 1.70 million TPA which is likely to be increased to 2 million TPA by september, 2007. Thus, the total present cement manufacturing capacity is 6.80 million TPA (of all 4 plants) which is likely to be increased to 7.80 million TPA by september, 2007. Actual production in 2006-07 was 6.749 million tonnes.
It has been decided to expand cement manufacturing capacity to 11.30 million tonnes per annum by setting up a new cement plant of 2 million tonnes per annum capacity adjacent to existing plant of Manikgarh Cement at Gadchandur, Maharashtra, along with a 35 MW captive thermal power plant and 1.50 million tonnes per annum cement grinding unit at Sagardighi in Distirct Murshidabad, West Bengal. The estimated total capital outlay will be about Rs.965 crore.
Century Cement -
Raipur,
Chhattisgarh. |
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Maihar Cement -
Maihar,
Madhya Pradesh. |
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Manikgarh Cement -
Chandrapur,
Maharashtra. |
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(III) Business Segment – Century Pulp and Paper
Rayon and/or paper Grade Pulp and Writing & Printing Paper Unit with an installed capacity of 20,000 tonnes each per annum was established in the year 1984 at Lalkua near Nainital (Uttaranchal). The Company presently is producing over 42,000 tonnes of Writing & Printing Paper (Wood based) and about 38,000 tonnes of Rayon and/or paper Grade Pulp per annum.
Company's second Paper unit based on Bagasse adjacent to the existing Pulp and Paper Plant at Lalkua with a capacity of 84,600 tonnes of paper per annum was established in 1995 and is presently producing over 85000 tonnes of Bagasse based paper.
The expansion of our Paper unit for manufacturing Paper from waste paper has been commissioned from 03.02.2007 with a capacity of 211 tonnes per day and the plant is now running smoothly.
It has been decided to set up a 100 tonnes per day Prime Grade Tissue Paper Plant at a total capital outlay of Rs.175 crore based on imported softwood and our own hardwood pulp as raw material. The technical study for installation of the plant has already commenced. The paper plant is proposed to be installed adjacent to the existing Pulp and Paper Plant at Lalkua, Dist. Nainital, Uttarakhand and is expected to be operative by about Septemper, 2008. After 2007-08
the installed capacities would be as under :
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Items |
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I. Rayon and/or paper Grade Pulp |
31,320 |
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| II. Writing & Printing Paper : |
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| (a) Wood based Paper |
37,250 |
| (b) Bagasse based Paper |
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| (c) From Waste Paper |
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Total (a+b+c) |
1,97,810 |
III Tissue Paper |
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 Century Pulp & Paper -
Lalkua,
Uttaranchal. |
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 REVENUE MIX
2006-2007
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