Cochin Minerals and Rutile Limited is engaged in the manufacture of synthetic rutile, ferric chloride, ferrous chloride, iron hydroxide (Cemox), recovered titanium dioxide (Ti02), recovered upgraded ilmenite and rutoweld. The Company's synthetic rutile product is used in pigment manufacture by the chloride process and a flux component in welding electrodes. Its ferric chloride is used in desalination plants, water and sewage treatment, pharmaceutical preparations, inks and pigments, textile mordanting, and others. Its ferrous chloride product is used for color removal in approximately six common effluent treatment plants in Tirupur, treatment of effluent from bleaching and dyeing units, treatment of effluent from leather tanneries, and others. Its Cemox has applications in reducing the use of natural clay, thereby avoiding clay mining from paddy fields and ensuring food security; improving the availability of micronutrients required for the plants in the soil; and others.
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