Foseco India Ltd Company Summary

Foseco India Ltd Summary

Foseco India Limited is the Foundry Technologies Division of Vesuvius Group plc. engaged in supporting the development of global steel and foundry manufacturing processes with new technologies. The Company has manufacturing capabilities in all the main steel and foundry markets in the world and is a leader in the supply of consumable products and solutions. The Company is engaged in the manufacture of products used in the metallurgical industry. The products are in the nature of additives and consumables that improve the physical properties and performance of castings. The manufacturing activities are at Sanaswadi and Puducherry. Foseco India, a JV company between Greaves of India and Foseco of UK was incorporated in March 22, 1958 as Greaves Foseco. The technical collaborator Foseco UK holds 66.5%(as on March 31, 2003) stake in the company.Foseco India is the leading supplier of metallurgical chemicals for the ferrous and non-ferrous foundry industry. The companys products are sold both directly and indirectly to industries like Passenger Cars and SUVs, Commercial Vehicles, Agricultural Machinery, Construction and general purpose steel, Textile machinery, two & Three wheelers. Its products also found usage in Steel, Petrochemical and food industry valves and pumps. Foseco India has two manufacturing facilities one located at Pune and the other one located at Metaupalayam, Pondicherry.It manufactures 400 different products for the metallurgical industry. The products are in the nature of additives and consumables and improve the physical properties and surface qualities of castings as well as reduce costs of melting, moulding and castings. The companys market covers integrated steel plants like SAIL and TISCO, mini mills like Mukand, Kalyani and Musco; and foundries like Ennore Foundries, Lakshmi Machine Works, etc. The company exports its products mainly to Middle East, Far East, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Kenya, Ghana, Bangladesh, Singapore & Taiwan.The company offered shares in Nov.93 to get listed in the stock exchange. Foseco has ceased all manufacturing and trading activities at Chinchwad from 28th Dec.99. During 1999-2000, the company has completed the largest project of Navodaya business transformation programme whose charges incurred was Rs.295 lacs along with the final closure of the Chinchwad manufacturing site foundry division. During March 2000 Burmah Castrol plc was acquired by BP Amoco Plc and in accordance with SEBI Takecover code BP Amoco plc via Burmah Castrol plc a subsidiary company,made a open offer to the public and has acquired 1277292 shares of Foseco India Ltd.In the year 2002, the Company increased its installed capacity of Metallurgical Chemicals by 570 Tonnes(Tonnes per annum based on 2 Shifts). With this Capacity Expansion, the total installed capacity of Metallurgical Chemicals has increased upto 24830 Tonnes.As on 31 December 2021, the paid-up share capital of the Company stood at Rs. 638,64,590/-, consisting of 63,86,459 equity shares of face value of Rs. 10 fully paid-up. Out of the above, the Promoters held 47,88,845 equity shares comprising 74.98% of the equity share capital of the Company.