Phillips Carbon Black has shut down its Palej unit as per the Order of the Gujarat Pollution Control Board for carrying out certain modifications. The company is committed to comply pro-actively with all norms of the environmental laws for sustainable development of the plants and the neighbourhood. The plant is expected to commence operations shortly after necessary compliance.
Phillips Carbon Black is the leading producer of Carbon Black (CB) in the country and seventh largest in the world with installed capacity of 410,000 mtpa. Its plants located at Durgapur (West Bengal), Mundra (Gujarat), Baroda (Gujarat) and Kochi (Kerala) facilitates in optimizing transportation cost. Furthermore, PCBL also has captive power plants (CPP) at all its locations (aggregate capacity of 76 MW).