• The Building Materials industry is valued at ~USD100 bn
• Grasim to invest ~₹2,000 Crore over a period of five years

The wholly-owned Aditya Birla Group company has a capacity to produce 70 KTPA of VSF, providing a strong footprint in the world’s largest VSF market.

• 8 caustic soda manufacturing units across India
• 1,290 KTPA Total Caustic Soda Capacity
• 123 KTPA capacity epoxy plant
• ~1 million tonnes of caustic sales

• Growth rate of the paints sector has exhibited a ~2x co-relation to India’s GDP growth
• Grasim to set up six manufacturing plants in India by 2025
• The plants will have a total capacity of 1,332 MLPA

• Jayashree Textiles, Rishra
• Total Linen capacity:
  Yarn: 41,592 spindles
  Fabric: 10 million metres p.a.
• Total Wool capacity:
  Worsted Yarn: 38,742 spindles
  Wool Tops: 8 cards wool combing capacity
• GPF, Kolhapur
• Total Cotton fabric capacity 10 million metres p.a

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• ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001 2018 certification
• FSC^® (FSC^® - C149993 & C151684)
• Largest manufacturer and exporter of VFY in India

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• Over 70 million garments across 100 major brands feature the LIVA tag
• 4 Fibre plants, 1 Pulp and 1 Lyocell plant in India
• 8,24,000 TPA Aggregate India Capacity
• 4 International JVs

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Acting and taking decisions in a manner that is fair and honest. Following the highest standards of professionalism and being recognised for doing so. Integrity for us means not only financial and intellectual integrity, but encompasses all other forms as are generally understood.

Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla is the Chairman of the Indian multinational Aditya Birla Group, which operates in 36 countries across six continents. He is a Chartered Accountant and holds an MBA degree from the London Business School.

Mr. Birla chairs the Boards of all major Group companies in India and globally including Novelis Inc., Birla Carbon, Aditya Birla Chemicals, Domsjö Fabriker, Terrace Bay Pulp Mill, Hindalco Industries Ltd., Grasim Industries Ltd., UltraTech Cement Ltd., Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. and Aditya Birla Capital Ltd. In the 28 years, at the helm of the Group, he has accelerated growth, built meritocracy and enhanced stakeholder value. In the process he has raised the Group's turnover by well over 30x to $60 billion.

On the foundation of Integrity, doing all that is needed to deliver value to all stakeholders. In the process, being accountable for our own actions and decisions, those of our team and those on the part of the organisation for which we are responsible.

Smt. Rajashree Birla is an exemplar in the area of community initiatives and rural development. Smt. Birla spearheads the Aditya Birla Centre for Community Initiatives and Rural Development, the Group’s apex body responsible for development projects.

She oversees the Group’s social and welfare driven work across the Group. The footprint of the Centre’s work straddles over 7,000 villages, reaching out to 9 million people. The Aditya Birla Group runs 20 hospitals and 5,000 medical camps treating over a million patients. Its 56 schools pan India impart quality education to over 46,500 children. Both its hospitals as well as schools are Not-For-Profit institutions.

Mr. H K Agarwal is Managing Director of Grasim Industries Limited, a flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group (ABG) and Business Director of the Group’s global Pulp & Fibre Business Birla Cellulose. He is also Director of Aditya Birla Management Corp. Private Limited, the apex corporate body that provides strategic direction and vision to the Group companies.

Over the last four decades, Mr. H K Agarwal has held leadership positions in the Aditya Birla Group's Cement, Chemicals, Advanced Materials, and Pulp and Fibre businesses.

An energetic, intuitive zeal that arises from emotional engagement with the organisation that makes work joyful and inspires each one to give his or her best. A voluntary, spontaneous and relentless pursuit of goals and objectives with the highest level of energy and enthusiasm.

Mr. Jayant V Dhobley joined the Aditya Birla Group in January 2021. Prior to joining ABG, Jayant worked for Amcor Limited where he led Strategy & Operations for the Asia Pacific region.

Thinking and working together across functional groups, hierarchies, businesses and geographies. Leveraging diverse competencies and perspectives to garner the benefits of synergy while promoting organisational unity through sharing and collaborative efforts.

Mr. Himanshu Kapania is leading the new foray of Grasim into Decorative Paint business as ‘Business Head’ with an initial investment of Rs.10,000 crores.

Mr. Kapania concurrently is the Business Head of ‘Birla White’ and is on the Board of ‘RAK company for White Cement & Construction Materials’ UAE.

Responding to internal and external customers with a sense of urgency. Continuously striving to finish before deadlines and choosing the best rhythm to optimise organisational efficiencies.

Mr. Kapil Agrawal is Business Head, Textile Aditya Birla Group. He is a Chartered Accountant and has completed a number of national and international management and leadership development programmes, including INSEAD's cutting-edge program, advanced management program at Harvard, and Global Leadership Program at IIM Ahmedabad. He received the Chairman's “Outstanding Leader Award” in 2022.

Mr. Pavan K Jain has a stellar career track record spanning over three decades in the Aditya Birla Group, and in different stints including Birla White, Grey Cement and Grasim CFD. He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and an Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He has also completed the Executive Development Program of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Grasim Industries incorporated

Production of fabric begins at Gwalior

VSF production commences at Nagda, Madhya Pradesh

Composite textile mill set up in Bhiwani, Haryana

• VSF and pulp plants at Harihar, Karnataka based on in-house engineering
• Caustic soda production commences at Nagda, Madhya Pradesh for captive use

• Vikram Cement — Grasim's first cement plant goes on stream at Jawad (Madhya Pradesh)
• The Cement business was started in 1985 with a capacity of 0.5 MTPA

Vikram Woollens spinning unit at Malanpur (Madhya Pradesh) set up

First phase of VSF plant is commissioned at Kharach (Gujarat)

AV Cell Pulp Mill at Canada acquired in a joint venture with other Group Companies and Tembec Inc.

• Consultancy and software services spun off into separate entity, Birla Technologies Limited
• Grasim acquires 10% stake in L&T

Grasim divests Gwalior textiles unit. Textile operations consolidated at Bhiwani to manufacture ‘Grasim’ and ‘Graviera’ brands

Acquires AV Nackawic Pulp Mill, Canada, in a joint venture with other Group Companies and Tembec Inc.

Forms joint venture company Birla Jingwei Fibres Company Limited and acquires VSF plant in China

Grasim hives off its sponge iron business by way of slump sale

Acquisition of key stake in Domsjo Fabriker AB, Sweden

Acquires AV Terrace Bay Inc. in Canada in JV with Thai Rayon in a joint venture with other Group Companies

Caustic soda and Epoxy plant commissioned at Vilayat, Gujarat

Grasim’s state-of-the-art VSF plant is commissioned at Vilayat, Gujarat

Merger of ABCIL with Grasim

• Merger of Aditya Birla Nuvo with Grasim
• UltraTech completed the acquisition of cement plants from Jaiprakash Associates Ltd. and Jaypee Cement Corporations Ltd. with a total capacity of 21.2 MTPA
• Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd., an Aditya Birla Group Company was merged with Grasim w.e.f. 1st July, 2017. Subsequently the financial services business was demerged from the merged entity and was listed on bourses as Aditya Birla Capital Limited on 1st September, 2017

• Grasim Industries has been Ranked # 205 in the list of “Global 2000 – Growth Champions 2018” by Forbes Magazine, USA
• Grasim bags Dun & Bradstreet Corporate Award 2018 for stellar performance in the textile sector

Grasim continuously adopts new processes and technologies to minimise pollution and waste generation

Manufactured using eco-friendly processes, Livaeco is the new eco-enhanced variety of Liva

National Award for Quality Excellence in Indian Cement Industry presented to Grasim Cement, Raipur.

Birla Cellulose assesses the environmental footprint and life cycle assessment of all its products

• Grasim Industries signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% equity shareholding of Soktas India Private Limited from its current promoters, for an enterprise value of INR 165 Crores (March 2019)
• Birla Cellulose takes a quantum leap towards making fashion more sustainable with the launch of ‘Livaeco’

Results of 2019 Corporate Sustainability Assessment by Dow Jones Sustainability Index

Grasim Polyfibres unit at Harihar undertakes a three-pronged approach to safeguard the environment and also the community

Oxygen delignification is helping Grasim’s Harihar unit to reduce water consumption

A mix of cropping reaps a rich harvest - A case study

Birla Cellulose has targeted to reduce its water intensity by 50% by 2025 from the baseline year 2015.

Grasim Harihar has won the First Runner-Up Award in Operational Excellence Leadership category by Frost & Sullivan

Grasim’s philosophy of forest to fashion ensures that we build a greener future. A step towards that direction is Liva eco - Saving the world - one garment at a time! Watch video.

Grasim – one of the world’s premier fibre manufacturer companies – believes in sustainability. Come, stand for sustainable and responsible fashion – it’s time to wear your green heart on your sleeve! Watch video.

Grasim’s Birla Cellulose Vilayat plant has donated three wheelchairs and two stretchers for Bharuch railway station as part of their CSR initiative.

Grasim Industries does a Bhoomi-Pujan for a 21-lakh resource kendra

Grasim Industries Ltd, Grasilene Division, Harihar, has been bestowed with the CII-ITC Sustainability Award 2019 for Excellence in Environment Management, for its tremendous achievements in the environmental front.

From providing personal protective equipment (PPE) kits to healthcare workers and developing a sanitization booth for the local police station in Nagda, to distributing food to the underprivileged, Grasim Industries goes beyond business in their fight against COVID-19. Watch the video to know more.

Grasim takes bold steps to support the nation’s fight against COVID-19

Safety is a way of life at Harihar and all our units, because people are our best assets

Linen Club begins a brand new chapter – launches new brand identity and logo

• Grasim commissioned the third generation 16 KTPA speciality fibre plant using in-house green technology at Kharach, Gujarat

ET and Futurescape 7^th Responsible Business Rankings 2020 ranks Grasim Industries at 9^th position

Grasim’s first integrated report was launched at the BSE today. Ashish Adukia , CFO, Grasim Industries Limited rang the ceremonial bell and Ashish Chauhan, MD & CEO, BSE, unveiled the report.

Birla Cellulose, part of the Aditya Birla Group and one of the world’s largest man-made cellulosic fibre producers, is pleased to announce that it has filed a joint patent application with Nanollose for a high tenacity lyocell fibre made from bacterial cellulose.

Nagda's infrastructural development is a testament to Grasim's efforts towards transforming the landscape of the town

For communities living around Nagda in Madhya Pradesh, the Indu Bhai Parikh Memorial Hospital has become synonymous with quality and affordable healthcare

To date, Grasim has supplied over 150 tonnes of oxygen, saving over 200 lives

Water, is the lifeline for every living being on this earth, and is the most important shared resource on the planet.

At Grasim, innovation is an enabler of business success and its regular and incremental innovations help the company stay agile and responsive to consumer needs

• Grasim forays into paints business with Pan-India presence
• Chloromethane plant with a capacity to produce 55 KTPA commissioned at Vilayat, Gujarat
• Caustic Soda brownfield expansion at Rehla and BB Puram of cumulative capacity of 142 KTPA commissioned
• ETSDGs Impact Summit recognizes Grasim as India's Top Company for Sustainability and CSR. Grasim ranked #7 on Responsible Business Ranking in Economic Times-Futurescape 8th Sustainability Index Report 2021

• Brownfield expansion of Vilayat VSF plant with 600 TPD capacity added
• Navyasa by Liva, a contemporary saree brand, launched
• Grasim wins two Gold Shields at The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) Awards Ceremony
• Aditya Birla Group flagship Grasim announces foray into B2B e-commerce platform for Building Materials with an investment of approx. INR 2,000 Crore over the next 5 years

SFD Nagda’s water management efforts have provided a big boost to agricultural production and ensured over three lakh households have access to drinking water

With a cumulative sustainability score of 47, Grasim Industries ranked number one in the 2021 Capri Global Capital Hurun India Impact 50. Last year, Grasim Industries contributed towards 17 sustainable development goals.

Navyasa is coined from navya which means new, and rasa, which is the art of everything we do.

• Grasim's B2B e-commerce business for building materials, "Birla Pivot", is operational and catering to customers in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Delhi from July 2023
• Grasim recognized as ET Sustainable Organisation 2023
• Grasim's Domestic Textile Business certified Great workplace by Great Place to Work® Institute
• Grasim Industries Limited inducts Ms. Ananya Birla, Mr. Aryaman Vikram Birla as Directors

An inspiring tale of grit and how Pulp and Fibre team became an extended family for Abir in his darkest time

The time for nations has come to identify exceptional Organisations and The Economic Times Sustainable Organisations is an effort to shine the strobe light on these sustainability trailblazers and celebrate their success stories.