Mr. Girdhar Saboo, a chemical engineer, who is a dynamic, ambitious and aggressive young entrepreneur is at the helm of affairs of Saboo Sodium Chloro Ltd. as its Managing Director.
In fact, the company is his brain wave. He has rich experience in the salt industry with an in-depth knowledge of refining salt to high purity of 99.5% and above and is well versed with the intricacies of salt refining in the world today. He has been in touch with various leading salt equipment manufactures in Germany, Switzerland and USA, regarding processing, drying and packing of salt.
He is also associated closely with the group companies. Besides being the Managing Director of Saboo Sodium Chloro Ltd., he is also on the Board of Directors of Sunstone Engineering Industries Pvt. Ltd., Abrasive Emery Industries Ltd and is a Partner in Ambika Stone Manufacturing Co., Saboo Stone Industries and Saboo Exports.
After completing Chemical Engineering in the year 1993 he started working on this prestigious and unique project and presented the project report to IDBI for project financing and TDICI for venture funding. Both the institutions showed confidence in this young entrepreneur and sanctioned term loan and foreign currency loan to import the plant and machinery and hence the foundation of Saboo Sodium Chloro Limited was laid, which is the largest fully integrated manufacturer of free flow triple refined iodized salt in Northern India with the latest technology from Germany.
It is situated in the village Govindi, Tehsil Nawa city, Distt. Nagaur (Rajasthan) which is only 100 kms from Jaipur city. The company’s public issue opened in May, 1995 and received an overwhelming response from the general public. Its shares are traded on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
The company has set up another plant in Gandhidham (Gujarat) at Motichirai and a third plant is at Phalodi near Bikaner (Rajasthan).
Today the company has the capacity to produce up to 600,000TPA triple refined free flow iodised salt using the most modern Imported Plant and equipment and the latest state of the art technology available in the world and one million TPA of industrial grade salt for chloro alkali industry, fisheries, textiles and dying industry. Besides this, Saboo Sodium Chloro Ltd. exports triple refined iodised salt & industrial salt to various countries like Papua New Guinea, Mauritius, Korea, Malaysia, Dubai, Bangladesh, Kenya, Ghana etc. on large scale.