Kerala is a land enriched with heavy mineral deposits. The western side of Kerala has been in the healing touch of Arabian Sea and the southern part of the sea shore has the rare and rich deposit of minerals, stretched along with sea cost beaten tidal channels, that is between Kayamkulam and Neendakara, a tract generally known as chavara cost is situated. The main content of these sands are Ilmenite, Rutile, Leucoxene, Sillimanite, Zircon and Monazite. Out of these the first three are Titanium bearing Minerals. To make use of these materials, the Kerala Minerals and Metals Limited (KMML) has been set up. These minerals can provide large number of metals and metal compounds. The KMML is one of the three factories in the state which uses these minerals as raw-minerals. The other two factories are: - Travancore Titanium Products Limited and the Indian Rare Earth Limited.
The KMML is located on the side of N.H - 47, very near to the sea at Sangaramangalam near Chavara. Now KMML is engaged in mining and separating the mineral sands into various constituents like Ilmenite, Rutile, Leucoxene, Sillimanite, Zircon and monazite. The first three minerals are used for the manufacturing of Titanium Dioxide Pigment and Titanium sponge metal. Zircon is used for making Zirconium Oxide, Zirconium Hydroxide, and Zirconium Ox chloride. Zirconium metal has important application in nuclear technology. Sillimanite is used for making Silicon Aluminum Alloy and monazite is the new material for the Rare Earth Industry.
[...] The manpower requirements in KMML have been estimated based on the Engineering consultants (India) Ltd. The company has now decided to review manpower requirements and entrusted Kerala State Productivity Council (KSPC), Kalamassery to undertake the work study and job evaluation so as to enable the company to arrive at the required manpower for their plant capacity. The absence of the proper manpower planning has led to the excess employment of the workforce. According to the executives, many external sources of the manpower are utilized by the KMML in filling the position created from time to time. [...]
[...] These factories give KMML, a formidable position in the chemical processing industry. KMML at present produces 6 grades of TiO2, which are described in detail as follows. KEMOX RC-800 PG (Rutile Titanium Dioxide) KEMOX RC-800 PG is a low absorption medium durable alumina heated rutile pigment produced by the chloride process. It has high tinting strength and excellent desperation property. RC-800 PG exhibits comparatively low abrasively. KEMOX RC-800 KEMOX RC-800 is a low absorption medium durable alumina heated Rutile Titanium dioxide pigment produced by the chloride process. [...]
[...] PURCHASE DEPARTMENT The purchase department plays a very important role in KMML. Because purchasing department has its effect on very vital factor concerning the manufacture quality, cost efficiency and prompt delivery of goods to consumers. Its functions include the following 1. What to purchase? 2. When to purchase? 3. Where to purchase? 4. How much to purchase? 5. At what price to purchase? PURCHASE PROCEDURE Purchase request It is a format used as a formal request to the purchase department to purchase material. [...]
[...] TITANIUM DIOXIDE INDUSTRY IN INDIA The Indian reserves of Ilmenite and Rutile is expected to be around 6crore tones. The most important source of Ilmenite in India is beach sands of south. The Indian reserves of illuminate and Rutile are expected to be around Rs.60000000. Beach reserves are seen in Ratnagiri (Maharashtra), Ganjan (Orissa), and srikalkolan (Andrapredesh). The reserve in Kerala and Tamil Nadu is around 25 million and Tamil Nadu is around 25 million tones. There are about 20 million tones reserves in Orissa. [...]
[...] Chloride reacts with titanium chloride and other metallic chlorides are condensed purified to obtain pure TiCI14 liquid, which is stored in the storage vessels OXIDATION UNIT In this unit raw pigment grade of TiO2 is produced by reacting pure TiCI14 and oxygen with at a temperature of about in a reactor. After preheating the TiCI14 in a pure heater having suspended in code tubes to carry the titanium chloride vapor. TiO2 raw pigment obtained for this unit is scurried with water and pumped storage tanks for further processing in the pigment finishing unit the chlorine liberated is regulated back to the chlorination unit PIGMENT FINISHING UNIT The unit - dispersed slurry from oxidation unit is passé 3s through the different subsections of the unit viz, sound milling and classification treatment, filtration, drying, micronization, scrubbing, cooling and bagging. [...]
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