Philips Carbon Black Ltd

About the Company :

Phillips Carbon Black Limited, part of the RP-SG Group, pioneered the carbon black industry in India. It is now the leading producer of carbon black in the country.

Phillips Carbon Black has come a long way since its inception in 1960. PCBL started production from December 1962 by the oil furnace technology; the most widely accepted manufacturing process of carbon black patented by its then collaborator and world carbon black leader, Phillips Petroleum company, USA. The collaboration ended in 1978. In 1988 PCBL entered into a technical agreement with Columbian Chemicals Company, USA, and acquired access to the modern state- of-the-art Carbon Black technology. This resulted in the company gaining flexibility, product range, production capacity and energy conservation.

The company’s present installed capacity is 270,000 MTPA. The company is not only the largest exporter of Carbon Black from India but also one of the largest in Asia in its field.

In June 2019, the company has opened a state-of-the-art research and development centre in Palej in Gujarat. The centre will deploy 30 researchers and will facilitate development of new products required by tyre and other industries across the world and pave way for new uses of carbon black in more areas including engineering plastics, fibres, food contact plastics, wire & cables, ink, paints, batteries and other applications