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Operations

Our fuller’s earth mines at Vikarabad, and our plant

Mines, plant, laboratory, warehouse, port. We own the first four — from the pit at Vikarabad to the bag on the truck. Come and see any of it.

The five stops

This is the route our fuller’s earth takes. The fifth stop is a public port. Grey barite and quartz we buy in and process; origin by mineral is under Mines below.

Our facilities, from the ground to the ship.
Stop Facility Location Held
1 Mines — fuller’s earth only Marepally & Indol, Reddemul Mandal, Vikarabad Dist., Telangana Ours
2 Plant Anantharajupeta, Rly. Kodur Mandal, Tirupati Dist., Andhra Pradesh Ours
3 Laboratory In-house Ours
4 Warehouse Covered Ours
5 Port Krishnapatnam · Chennai · Kattupalli · Ennore Public

The photographs on this page are our own.

Stop 1 of 5

Mines

The fuller’s earth we sell comes out of ground we mine.

VillagesMarepally & Indol
MandalReddemul
DistrictVikarabad
StateTelangana
MaterialFuller’s earth
Working season6 months a year

Where the range comes from

These mines produce fuller’s earth. Grey barite and quartz we buy in and process.

Origin, mineral by mineral.
Mineral Origin
Fuller's Earth Mined by us — Marepally & Indol, Vikarabad Dist., Telangana
Grey Barite Bought in and processed by us
Bentonite Bought in from Karnataka and Telangana, and processed by us
Quartz Bought in and processed by us
A tipper truck with its bed raised, standing on a pale earth stockpile, dust hanging in the air.
A tipper on a stockpile, bed raised.

Stop 2 of 5

Plant

One works, at Anantharajupeta in Rly. Kodur mandal. The material is milled, screened and packed here, and the mill is ours.

LocationSy. No. 317, 318 & 319, Anantharajupeta (V&P), Rly. Kodur (M), Tirupati District, Andhra Pradesh 516101, India
Survey numbers317, 319
DoesMilling · screening · packing
Packing25 kg · 50 kg · 1 MT
Inside the mill shed: a pulveriser with a cyclone separator and ducting, a feed conveyor running up to it, and filled bags stacked along the far wall.
The mill, with its cyclone and feed conveyor. Filled bags stack along the wall.
The plant shed from outside, a steel-framed building with an open loading bay.
The plant shed.
The works gate standing open, with the company signboard fixed to it and the plant sheds beyond.
The works gate.

Stop 3 of 5

Laboratory

We run our own testing laboratory. This is the apparatus in it and what it lets us test on site.

LaboratoryIn-house
Runs in-housepH · Moisture · Bulk density
Third partySGS

Apparatus

  • pH meter
  • Moisture apparatus
  • Hot air oven
  • Hot plate
  • Magnetic stirrer
  • Vacuum pump
  • Bulk density apparatus

The chemical analysis of our mined grade, with its source, is on the fuller’s earth page.

Stop 4 of 5

Warehouse

The mines are worked 6 months a year. We despatch for 12. Covered raw stock is what carries the other six.

Continuity of supply
Parameter Value
Mining season 6 months / year
Despatch 12 months / year
Despatch rate 1,000–5,000 MT / month
A stockpile of fuller's earth several metres high, under a steel-framed shed.
Fuller’s earth stockpiled under a steel-framed shed.
Around thirty filled jumbo bags standing in rows inside a covered shed.
Filled bags held under cover.
Bags stacked against a wall beside a sign reading Finished Goods. The bags carry printed panels for batch number, manufacturing date and net weight.
Finished goods, kept apart from raw material and labelled by batch.

Stop 5 of 5

Port

We despatch through the seaports below. Chennai is the one we price against: our quotes read FOB Chennai unless you ask for another. Our material ships to the markets named below.

SeaportsKrishnapatnam · Chennai · Kattupalli · Ennore
Exported toMalaysia · United Arab Emirates
ModesFCL · LCL · Air · bulk & break-bulk
FOB reference portChennai
Loaded per 20 ft27 MT

Importers count containers. We load 27 MT into a 20 ft container. That is our own figure, for our own material.

A container yard stacked several high, with a ship on the water beyond.
Container yard.

Export & logistics →

Come and look

Everything above can be checked in person. Before that, take the material. Samples are drawn from a production lot and ship with that lot’s analysis. A certificate of analysis accompanies every consignment that follows, so what you trial and what arrives are documented the same way.

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