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Star SME: How Alkyl Amines Chemicals is tapping local, global demand

Large capacities and efficient use of capital have been key to Alkyl Amines Chemicals' profitable growth

Yogesh M Kothari, Chairman and Managing Director, Alkyl Amines Chemicals
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Yogesh M Kothari, Chairman and Managing Director, Alkyl Amines Chemicals

Raghavendra Kamath Mumbai
From being the first company in India to make amines to adding research and development (R&D) facilities and widening its product portfolio in the wake of liberalisation — all these factors have helped Alkyl Amines Chemicals (AAC) to get where it is.

The company, led by Chairman and Managing Director Yogesh M Kothari, is now a global supplier of amines and amine-based chemicals to the pharmaceutical, agrochemical, rubber chemicals and water treatment industries.

A lot has changed since AAC commissioned its first plant in 1982 at Patalganga to make ethylamines with technology from Leonard Process Company, USA. Later, capacity was