Cochin Minerals & Rutile (CMRL) manufactures the best quality Synthetic Rutile across the world. CMRL is India's largest manufacturer of Aqua Ferric Chloride, which conforms to all major international standards.  

CMRL's plant is ideally located at Edayar Industrial Development area, hardly 15 kilometer’s from Cochin Port and 100 kilometer’s from the Ilmenite deposits.

The company started production with a modest capacity of 10,000 tonnes per annum (TPA) of Synthetic Rutile and 12,500 TPA of Ferric Chloride. Subsequent through innovations and debottle-necking, the company enhanced its production capacity of Synthetic Rutile to 36,000 TPA, Ferric Chloride to 15,000 TPA and Ferrous Chloride to 18,000 TPA.   

Steady Research and Development efforts helped CMRL to retain its leadership in quality. It is the policy of the company to continuously improve the product quality to the total satisfaction of the customers by the contribution of skills, talents and innovation of its employees.

Objectives of CMRL:

• To give prime importance to customer requirements and satisfaction
• Focusing on result oriented work culture
• Continuous improvement of product and process
• Conformance to documented quality system
• Employee Development

Products :

a) Beneficiated Ilmenite (Synthetic Rutile)  --  Uses of this product are:

• Flux component in Welding Electrodes
• Feed stock for Titanium Sponge
• Ingredients of Special Abrasives

b) Ferric Chloride -- Used in:

• In Desalination plants
• In water and sewage treatment
• In etching Printed Circuit Boards
• In the manufacture of several iron compounds
• In the pharmaceutical preparations
• In inks and pigments
• In pickling of stainless steel and high nickel alloys
• In textile mordanting
• In the petrochemical Industry - ETP Treatment

c) Ferrous Chloride – Some of the uses of Ferrous Chloride are:

• For treatment of effluent from paper mill to reduce colour, COD, BOD and AOX
• Cost effective solution for lignin separation from black liquor generated in paper mill.
• It is the best reagent to reduce Hexavalent Chromium to Trivalent and make it insoluble in wate 

Achievements:

The quality management system of CMRL is ISO 9001:2000 certified by Bureau Veritas and accredited by UKAS (UK), ANAB (USA) and NABCB (India).