areas of business | joint ventures, subsidiaries, associates | location

The Brunner Mond group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of soda ash and associated alkaline products. It is Britain's largest soda ash producer and the second-largest soda ash maker in Europe. Established in 1873 in the United Kingdom, it became a part of Tata Chemicals in 2005.

Areas of business
The company’s key product is soda ash, which finds use in the manufacturing of glass, detergents and industrial chemicals. The company also makes refined sodium bicarbonate, used widely in making pharmaceuticals, bakery products and personal care products such as toothpaste and deodorants. The major markets for these products are in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and South East Asia.

Brunner Mond produces salt in Kenya, mainly for the domestic market. The company also operates a transportation terminal at Durban, South Africa. It has entered into a partnership with E.ON (formerly Powergen) for a combined heat and power plant for its manufacturing facilities in Northwich.

Joint ventures, subsidiaries, associates
The Brunner Mond group comprises:

• Brunner Mond (UK)
• Brunner Mond Resource Generation Company
• Northwich Resource Management
• Transcontinental Holdings
• The Magadi Soda Company
• Brunner Mond BV (formerly the soda ash business unit of Akzo Nobel)
• Kemax BV (a joint venture company owned by TETRA Netherlands BV and Brunner Mond BV)
• Brunner Mond (South Africa) (operates a bulk soda ash terminal at the Durban port)

Location
The Brunner Mond group is headquartered in Northwich, UK, where it also has two manufacturing plants. Its other manufacturing sites are at Delfzijl in the Netherlands and Lake Magadi in Kenya.