CHEMICAL

INDUSTRY
Presented by

M Keerthi amre
Nagaraju D L
History Of Chemical Industry
• Birth of Chemical Industry Took Place In The Middle East long
Back In 7000 B.C
• Next Were The chinese People
• The First Large Scale Chemical industry Came Into Existence In
The 19th Century By A British Entrepreneur.
• Chemical Industry Evolution In India
chemical Industry Is One Of The Oldest Domestic
Industry Of India
INTRODUCT
ION
The Business Of Using Chemical Reactions To Turn Raw Materials, Such As
Coal, Oil and Salt, Into A Variety Of Products.
Such as petrolium fuels ,polymers ,petrochemicals ,synthetic materials &
pesticides.
Chemicals are used by most of the industries like fertiliser industry
,petrochemical industry ,syntheticfibre industries etc.
First Factories Of Independent India

Bengal Chemicals In Kolkata (1961)

Sindri Fertilizer Plant Near Jodhpur In Rajasthan

( 1951)

Petroleum Refining (Tiny One) In Digboi, Assam

# EVOLUTION
in INDIA
Trends Of Indian Chemical Industry
5.4 % of India’s total export

16% of total industrial output and 2.1% of the GDP

2% of global chemical industry

2 Indian pharmaceutical industry ranks 4th in volume

14th in term of value in the world

Indian chemical industry segments

Drugs and
Inorganic Chemicals Organic Chemicals
Pharmaceuticals

Pesticides,
Specialty and
Fertilizers And Plastics and
Fine chemicals
Other Petro chemicals
Agro-chemicals
 S W O T Analysis
STRENGTH WEAKNESS
Strong local market potential Less awareness on R&D
Young and talented workforce upcoming Lack of budget
Availability of precious raw materials Insufficient hazardous waste processing
(soda ash, coal etc.) Facilities
No utilization of technological
equipment

OPPORTUNITIES
THREATS

Human resource availability Chemical environmental pollution

Increasing investment in private sectors Employee health problem
Geographical setup High cost of technology
Shortage of financial budgets
Charles Tennant's St. Rollox Chemical Works in 1831, then the biggest chemical enterprise in the world
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