Grasim Industries Limited was incorporated in 1947. Indo-Thai Synthetics Company Ltd was incorporated in 1969 in Thailand, and started operations in 1970. This was Aditya Birla Group's first foray into international venture. Aditya Birla Group incorporated
P.T. Elegant Textiles in 1973 in Indonesia. Thai Rayon incorporated in 1974; this was the second company in Thailand, operating in Viscose Rayon Staple Fiber. Century Textiles Co. Ltd. was taken over by Aditya Birla Group in 1974; this company is a weaving and dyeing plant manufacturing and exporting variety of synthetic fabrics. PT Sunrise Bumi Textiles incorporated in 1979; it produces yarn exported to over 30 countries in 6 continents. P.T Indo Bharat Rayon, incorporated in 1980, produces Viscose Staple Fiber in Indonesia. Thai Polyphosphates and Chemicals was started in 1984 in Thailand to produce Sodium Phosphates, and has merged with Thai Epoxy and Allied Products Company Limited (1992), Thai Sulphites and Chemicals Company Limited (1995) to form Aditya Birla Chemicals Ltd. This company supplies to sectors such as food, textiles, electrical and electronics, composites, leather, plastics and automobiles. PT Indo Liberty Textiles was incorporated in 1995 to manufacture synthetic spun yarn. In 1985, the firm's activities in its
Mavoor facility ran into controversies after it shut down, first temporarily and later on, permanently. In the late 1990s and later, the focus was the textile business following the end of
Multi-Fiber Arrangement (MFA). AV Cell Inc., a joint venture between Aditya Birla Group and Tembec, Canada, established operations in 1998 to produce softwood and hardwood pulp for the purpose of internal consumption among different units of the Group. In 2012, Grasim Industries Ltd. and Tembec, Canada acquired AV Nackawic Inc., which produces dissolving pulp. ==Listed subsidiaries==