Adani Wilmar to unveil edible oil refinery in Feb

Adani Wilmar Ltd (AWL) will launch the country's largest single location edible refinery at Mundra in the gulf of Kutch.

The complex has a refining capacity of 22,000 tonne per day and a hydrogenation capacity of 350 tonne per day, making it the largest of its kind in the country.

The complex will be inaugurated on February 1 in the presence of Adani group chairman Gautam Adani, Union minister of agriculture, consumer affairs, food and public distribution Sharad Pawar and state chief minister Narendra Modi.

AWL has procured the refining technology from Belgium, Sweden and Singapore, and a company statement said that products will meet the US Food and Drug Authority standards.

The new unit also has a coal-based captive power plant of four mw.

The company has also set up an integrated packaging plant at Mundra and the in house packaging facilities include blow-moulding for manufacturing of PET, HDPE jars and tins.

AWL has also set up a fully automated corrugated box manufacturing facility at Mundra to unsure quality deliveries. AWL is a joint venture between Adani Exports Ltd, a company of the Adani group and the $3 billion USD Wilmar Trading Pte of Singapore.

The company was set up in January 1999. The AWL range of products, sold under the Fortune brand name, include refined soyabean oil, refined sunflower oil, `Kachi Ghani' mustard oil, refined cottonseed oil, refined groundnut oil and soya palm blended oil.

Other products under the Raag brand include refined palmolein blended oil and Vanaspati. The company also sells Jubilee palmolein oil and bakery shortening under the brand name Jubileechef.

AWL has a turnover in excess of Rs 2,000 crore and its Fortune brand is the largest selling refined oil brand in the country, commanding 22 per cent share.

It was also ranked the 30th largest FMCG brand in the country in 2003 and AWL has been ranked by A C Nielson as the fastest growing FMCG company for 2003 with a growth of 94 per cent over the previous year.