In the Chemicals sector, the company manufactures Soda Ash (Anhydrous Sodium Carbonate), a major raw material for detergents, glass & ceramics industries and Sodium Bicarbonate (baking soda). The company has a Soda Ash manufacturing plant at Sutrapada in Gujarat with an installed production capacity of 11 Lakh MTPA and is in the process of expanding it by another 500 Thousand MTPA by end of 2025. GHCL Soda Ash is available in two grades –light and dense grade and is marketed in India under the brand name ‘LION’. GHCL also has lignite mines at Khadsaliya in the Bhavnagar district of Gujarat
To create a culture of continuous creativity and innovation ‘by the employees – for the employees – of the employees’ to nurture their raw creative ideas by providing them a platform to present, develop and test their ideas in organization context and create a framework to predict its validity and subsequent impact in the company, GHCL has come up with this initiative named as GHCL TEA. The ideas are clubbed into three categories, namely, Strategy, Innovation and Research and accordingly employees can submit their ideas.
The employees are inspired to think beyond earning profits by focussing on larger aspects of sustainability like preserving natural resources, creating customer delight, serviceability, exemplary conduct based on Core Values & innovation etc.