TCL Specialties LLC
TCL Specialties LLC is currently working on two new manufacturing plants in Marshall County, WV. One of these projects, a food ingredients plant, will produce malic and fumaric acid. TCL is also introducing an advanced materials plant that will manufacture high-strength, low-weight composites for automotives, aircraft, public transport and trucks, household durables, boat hulls and coatings.
Sarathy Parthasarathy, chairman of TCL Group, says these facilities— particularly the food ingredients plant— will work to cater to the U. S.’ s exports market.
Parthasarathy explains that the U. S. currently only produces 25 % of its food demand while importing the rest. TCL hopes to change those numbers.
“ Demand for these food ingredients in the U. S. is growing steadily,” Parthasarathy says.“ These are used in thousands of snack foods, beverages and food and fruit processing. However, no new plants for food ingredients have been built in the U. S. in the last six decades, and the technology is very closely held. TCL brings in an integrated technology going back to the primary inputs.”
All equipment and systems for the two new plants are fully installed. Final touch-ups are happening now and expected to reach completion soon. Three hundred people, mostly from West Virginia, are already employed at the site, and production is expected to begin this year.
Butane, the main raw material used to make advanced materials, is plentiful in West Virginia, making the Mountain State a great choice for TCL’ s new advanced materials plant.
“ The advantage of this project is that it is fully based upon West Virginia raw materials, built in West Virginia and constructed, operated and managed by the people of West Virginia,” Parthasarathy says.
Aside from its new plants, TCL has also built infrastructure that will benefit not only its own projects but also attract other investors to the Mountain State. These include a barge docking station, off-gas clean up incinerator, emergency steam systems and emergency power plants.
“ We have been delighted by the incredible support from the government of West Virginia that has held our hand at every step of this project and made it possible for us to build a complex high technology facility here,” Parthasarathy says.
Through its training and apprenticeship programs, TCL is creating
Photo by TCL Specialties LLC.
training and job opportunities for West Virginia natives. By producing this manpower within the state and increasing the number of exports nationally, TCL is putting West Virginia’ s manufacturing sector on the map. •
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