Tata Chemicals has the third largest
soda ash production capacity plant in India. This was the second soda ash plant built in India by Kapilram Vakil (grandson of late Indian justice
Nanabhai Haridas) that started operating in the year 1944. The township Mithapur, derives its name from "Mitha" which means salt in Gujarati language. Since 2006, Tata Chemicals has owned
Brunner Mond, a United Kingdom-based chemical company with operations in
Magadi (Kenya). On 27 March 2008, Tata Chemicals Ltd acquired General Chemical of US. In April 2010, Tata Chemicals acquired 25% stake in ammonia-urea fertilizer complex in Gabon for 290 million. The first phase of the plant will have a full operational capacity of 2.2 billion tons of ammonia and 3.85 billion tons of urea per day. In 2019, Tata Group transferred Tata Chemicals' branded food business to
Tata Global Beverages (now
Tata Consumer Products), in an all-share deal. In 2022, Tata Chemicals, through its subsidiary
Tata Chemicals Europe, set up the UK's first industrial-scale carbon capture and usage plant. The plant can capture 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum. ==Research and Development Center==