Profile
Coromandel Fertilisers Ltd (CFL), a leading manufacturer of a wide range of fertilisers and pesticides (technical and formulations), is part of the Rs 8,592 crores Murugappa Group. The company was incorporated in 1964, by the synergistic efforts of two major companies of the US - Chevron Chemical Company (CCC) and International Minerals and Chemicals Corporation (IMC) - and EID Parry Ltd (EIDP), a leading business house in India associated with agriculture.

CFL markets around 2.3 million tonnes of phosphatic fertilisers, making it the leader in its markets and the second-largest producer of phosphatic fertilisers in India. It also markets phosphogypsum and sulphur bentonite.

Coromandel Fertilisers has multi-locational production facilities, at Visakhapatnam (AP), Ennore (near Chennai) and Ranipet (both in Tamil Nadu), Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra, Ankleshwar in Gujarat, and in Jammu. It markets its products all over India through 13 marketing offices and a network of over 7,000 dealers, and exports pesticides to various countries across the globe.

Exports
Coromandel Fertilisers Limited is known in the global agrochemical market as the principal manufacturer of Endosulfan. It is represented in various markets through its agents / formulators. CFL is the third-largest manufacturer of Endosulfan, the second-largest manufacturer of Malathion and only the second manufacturer of Phenthoate.

Coromandel's pesticide business produces over 35 types of insecticides, fungicides and herbicides that are marketed across the country and exported to many countries in South America, Western Africa, Middle East and South East Asia:

	Argentina
	Australia
	Bangladesh
	Bolivia
	Brazil
	Cameroon
	Egypt
	Ecuador
	Guatemala
	Iran
	Malaysia
	Mexico
	Nigeria
	Singapore
	Spain
	South Korea
	South Africa
	Sudan
	Turkey
	Thailand
	Uruguay
	USA
	Vietnam

Areas of business
CFL is a producer of phosphatic fertilisers, plant protection chemicals, specialty nutrients, etc. The company also manufactures and sells sulphur bentonite, potash, etc. Its well-known brand names include 'Gromor', 'Paramfos', 'Parry Sulphur' and 'Parry Gold'.

The company is also in the business of manufacturing and marketing of pesticides with a technical manufacturing unit at Navi Mumbai (Maharashtra) and a formulations plant at Ranipet (Tamil Nadu). Pesticides account for nearly 10 per cent of its total turnover.