DCM Shriram Industries
DCMSRIND · Agriculture > Sugar · Chairman: SB Mathur · MD: Madhav B Shriram · Listing date: Dec. 14, 1994

DCM Shriram Industries Ltd. (DSIL) is the flagship company of the DCM Shriram Industrial Group based predominantly in Northern India with a portfolio of products comprising of sugar, alcohol, fine chemicals, rayon tyrecord & textiles.

DCM Shriram Industries is a diversified group with operations in Sugar, Alcohol, Organic and Inorganic Chemicals, Drug Intermediates, Rayon Tyrecord, Shipping Containers and processed cotton yarn.

DCM Shriram Industries Group was born in 1990 on restructuring of the erstwhile DCM Limited by combining five units of DCM group namely Sugar factory at Daurala, Distillery at Daural, Rayon tyrecord plant at Kota, Liquor Operations at Daurala and Aromatic Chemicals Plant at Daurala.

The company had three manufacturing sites Daurala Sugar Complex,U.P., Shriram Rayons,Rajasthan and Daurala Organics,U.P.

Product range

Sugar includes-

  • Plantation White Crystal Sugar (Sulphitation)
  • Refined Sugar (Pharmaceutical Grade)Sugar Cubes
  • Sugar Sachets
  • Breakfast Sugar
  • Packaged Premium Sugar

Alcohol include-

  • Bulk alcohol
  • Rectified Spirit, Extra Neutral Alcohol and Anhydrous Alcohol.
  • Portable liquor-Whiskies, Gin, Rum, Brandy
  • Country liquor-Sonpari, LalPari, Asha, Daurala Lime King, Daurala No.-1, Umang.

Aromatic Chemicals- Sodium Phenyl Acetate (Liquid), Sodium Benzoate, Para-Chloro Benzyl Cyanide, Potassium Phenyl Acetate (Solid), Ortho-Chloro Benzy Cyanide, Phenyl Acetic Acid (Pharma & Perfumery Grade), etc. 

Other Chemicals-Anhydrous Sodium Sulphate (CGQ), Anhydrous Sodium Sulphate(NQ/NQA), Carbon-di-Sulphide, etc.

Rayon products- Yarn, Cord, Greige Fabric, RFL Treated Fabric.In 2005, Daurala Organics Limited was amalgamated with DCM Shriram Industries Limited.

Milestones achieved

  • 1889 - Delhi Cloth Mills founded at Delhi
  • 1932 - Sugar factory set up at Daurala
  • 1934 - Textile Mills set up at Lyallpur (Now Faisalabad in Pakistan)
  • 1940 - Sugar factory set up at Mawana
  • 1941 - Heavy inorganic chemicals plant set up at Delhi
  • 1943 - Distillery set up at Daurala
  • 1948 - New textile mills set up at Delhi
  • 1958 - Spinning mills at Hissar and Silk mills set up at Delhi 
  • 1960 - PVC, Chlor-alkali and Calcium Carbide plant set up at Kota
  • 1965 - Rayon tyrecord plant set up at Kota
  • 1967 - Liquor operations started at Daurala
  • 1969 - Urea plant set up at Kota
  • 1970 - Aromatic chemicals plant set up at Daurala
  • 1972 - Textile mills set up at Dasna   - Computers unit set up at Delhi
  • 1977 - Precision castings (for automobiles) foundry set up at Ropar
  •  1990 - DCM restructured into 4 different groups 
  • 1994 - Drug intermediates company established with works at Daurala (Daurala Organics Ltd.)
  •  - Yarn dyeing and processing unit established at Alwar(Indital Tintoria Ltd.)
  • 1995 - Shipping containers company established at Chennai(DCM Hyundai Ltd.)
  •  1997 - Joint Venture Liquor company established with works at Daurala (DCM Remy Ltd.)
  •  2004 - Commercial production of Anhydrous Alcohol (for admixing field)
  •  2005 - Daurala Organics Ltd. , amalgamated with DCM SHRIRAM INDUSTRIES Ltd.

Awards/Achievements

  • The first sugar complex in India to be accredited with ISO-9002 certification way back in 1996, for all its manufacturing facilities and recently accredited under the upgraded ISO 9001:2000 certification scheme by Det Norsk Veritas of Norway.
  • ISO 9000 series certification has been received from RWTUV of Germany and Det Norsk Veritas of Norway.