Synthite Industrial chemicals

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Synthite Industrial Chemicals (Synthite) is the largest oleoresin extraction farm in the world, supplying ingredients to the major food, fragrance and flavour houses. Synthite contributes 50 per cent of India's exports in the spice oleoresin market. They have a portfolio of over 500 products - from fresh & dried spices to oleoresins, added value products and application oriented solutions.

Synthite's range includes raw spices, spice oleoresins, essential oils, natural food colours, floral concretes/absolutes, resinoids, seasonings, health/functional food ingredients, spray dried and added value products as well as application oriented solutions.

Synthite Industrial Chemicals Pvt Ltd, located deep inside this rural environment, has contributed to the development of the area. As a result, Kadayiruppu is well-connected by wide asphalted roads suitable for plying trailer-trucks carrying containers, apart from telecommunication, education and medical facilities.

The company, started in 1972 with an annual turnover of Rs 25 lakh, has a combined turnover of over Rs 200 crore today. It gives direct employment to over 800 people while another 10,000 are indirectly benefited.

It has a Fragrance division at Marudur, again a village near Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, and Harihar division at Kumarapattinam in Karnataka. Synthite has the distinction of being the first food company in the country to be granted the ISO 9001 with HACCP in 1994.

The leadership of Mr C. V. Jacob has steered the company to the top rung of exporters of spices oleoresins and oils, winning certificates of merits and trophies for outstanding export performance in 1976-77, 1977-78, 1983-84 and 1990-91 from the President of India. Synthite has constantly won the Outstanding Exporter's Award of the Spices Board every year from 1976 till today.