Rama Phosphates has set up new manufacturing unit at its existing factory premises at Udaipur, Rajasthan, for manufacture of Linear Alkyl Benzene Sulphonic Acid (LABSA) having installed capacity of 18,000 tpa.

The company has also set up a new sulphuric acid facility at 170 tpd capacity at Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

As part of forward integration, LABSA will be produced from sulphuric acid which is the basic raw material of soaps, detergents. surfactants and disinfection products, etc and this LABSA product is in great demand in the present situation.

Simultaneously, this would catalyst as part of backward integration as the byproduct of LABSA would be consumed in the manufacture of its core product, Single Super Phosphate (SSP).

The trial production of sulphuric acid from the company’s Indore facility has been successful and commercial production will begin soon.