Phillips Carbon Black Limited, part of the RPG Group, pioneered the carbon black industry in India. It is now the leading producer of carbon black in the country. Phillips Carbon Black has come a long way since its inception in 1960. PCBL started production from December 1962 by the oil furnace technology; the most widely accepted manufacturing process of carbon black patented by its then collaborator and world carbon black leader, Phillips Petroleum company, USA. The collaboration ended in 1978. However, PCBL continued its progress by virtue of the ingenuity of its technologists, engineers and sustained R&D activities. In 1988 PCBL entered into a technical agreement with Columbian Chemicals Company, USA, and acquired access to the modern state-of-the-art Carbon Black technology. |