Our Legacy
Innovative and Sustainable Technologies for a Better Tomorrow
This year, Technithon (a part of the Trivedi Group of companies) proudly celebrates its 50th anniversary, marking half a century of delivering innovative and sustainable technologies. Specializing in surfactants and specialties derived from renewables, oleochemicals, and pollution abatement systems for both air and liquid effluents, Trivedi Groupe has consistently added value to customers and consumers and has grown to cater to over 175+ customers across 50 geographies.
Our Legacy: 50 Years of Innovation and Impact
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1975
The Group’s journey began in 1975 with our founder, Mr. Sanjay Trivedi, an IIT Kanpur engineer, who pioneered the production of surfactants and specialty chemicals in India. Starting with Sodium Lauryl Sulphate (SLS) and EDTA, the company rapidly grew, supplying major brands like Hindustan Lever and Colgate Palmolive.
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1984
Headquartered in Mumbai, Mr. Trivedi, established Trivedi Enterprises Pvt Ltd in 1984, to offer engineering and consulting services for surfactant and specialities. A continuous film sulfonation plant for alpha Olefin sulfonates was set up for Dharamsi Morarjee Chemical Company at Roha in Maharashtra. This was one of the first plants set up for making a new surfactant molecule using olefins.
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1989
By 1989, global collaborations began with Chemithon Enterprises Inc., resulting in over 20 sulfonation plants across India and installations in countries like Nigeria, Germany, South Africa, Malaysia and Indonesia. Technical support was also extended for projects in China, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea. Projects expanded by building a fractionation plant for fatty acids in Uzbekistan, an edible oil refinery using palm oil at Beira in Mozambique and a continuous fixed bed hydrogenation plant in Malaysia. There were pilot plants FOR ALKOXYLATION built for majors in Malaysia and Singapore.
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1994
The Group appraised and carried out feasibility studies for over fourteen (14) projects IN EAST, WEST, NORTH, SUBSAHARAN AND CENTRAL AFRICA for Soaps, detergents and Edible oils for International Finance Corporation (IFC) through Africa project development facilities AND Exim Bank of India from 1994-2004.
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2002
In 2002, the JV in India built the first plant for control of particulate emissions from a coal based thermal power station at Ukai, Gujarat, India for the Gujarat state Electricity Board. The annual ash emission reduction was over 500%. Similar plants were setup at four other State Electricity Boards in Punjab, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Maharashtra, at twenty-nine Thermal power plants nationwide and also at three privately owned thermal plants. The efforts were lauded by across the Thermal power plants industry in India and expertise was extended to similar plants for Eskom in South Africa.
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2008
In 2008, a JV in Singapore with Chemithon Enterprises Inc, expanded the business of sulfonation plants in Malaysia and Indonesia. The business diversified to include oleochemicals and specialities plants from renewables and technical services in SEA, MENA region, South Africa and Australia.
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2014
In 2014, Mr Trivedi bought out the equity in the JV in India and Singapore from Chemithon Enterprises Inc and the company in Singapore changed name to Technithon International Pte Ltd (TIPL).
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2025
Today, the headquarters for the companies are in India and Singapore. The Engineering and Manufacturing facilities are based at Vadodara in Gujarat and state of art R&D facilities are being built at Vadodara. The group has an employee strength of around 100 people and headed by experienced and professional Board members, managers and qualified family members.
Notable Milestones
The company introduced several “firsts” in sulfonation and surfactants, renewable-based specialty chemicals, and advanced technologies and plants.
Notable Firsts as Pioneers
Leaders on plants for Alpha Olefin sulfonates in India
Large Continuous Hydrogenation process for 200TPD Methyl esters in Malaysia.
1st APG plant in India
1st MES plant in Indonesia
1st Continuous Asphalt sulfonation plants in Abu Dhabi and KSA
Thirty-two Flue gas Conditioning plants at 5 State Electricity Boards plants for SPM control in India
1st Turbo tube drying systems for Alcohol sulfates in India
1st Continuous Dioxane reduction system from AES in India.
A Commercial scale Betaines plant for an MNC in Indonesia
1st Specialty chemicals plant in for a Surfactants company in Ethiopia
Four Custom designed pilot plants for Alkoxylation and Green surfactants in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia
A batch plant for SLS using Chlorosulfonation in 1975 at Thane, Maharashtra,India
A batch plant for SO2CL2 at Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India
A Nickel recovery plant from reformer Catalyst in Ankleshwar, Gujarat
A Mono chloro acetic acid plant at Ankleshwar, Gujarat
A Plant for Ethylene Diamine based EDTA (chelates) , Ankleshwar, Gujarat
A micronutrients plant incl blends with Single Super Phosphate at Ankleshwar, Gujarat
A dominant bath neutralization system for Savita chemicals, Thane, Maharashtra
A continuous film sulfonation plant for alpha Olefin sulfonates set up for Dharamsi Morarjee Chemical Company at Roha in Maharashtra. (Roha, Maharashtra)
A large sulfonation facility for Hansa Chemie , Iberburen, Germany
A multi purpose sulfonation plant for Unilever, Silvassa, Gujarat,India
A Sulfonation plant for New Japan Chemicals JV in Malaysia (Kauntan, Malaysia)
A Green surfactant Methyl Ester Sulfonate for Wilmar Nabati Indonesia( Gresik Indonesia)
A fixed bed continuous Hydrogenation plant for Carotino (Johor Bahru, Malaysia)
A pilot plant for liquid phase Alkoxylation of Methyl esters for AOTD, KL, Malaysia
A pilot plant for EO and PO derivatives for Croda (Jurong Island, Singapore)
A liquid SO3 (on purpose) generation facility for Global Chemicals ( Abu Dhabi, UAE)
An Alkyl Polyglucoside plant for Ecof at Malur, KN, India
An oxidized Asphalt sulfonation plant in KSA (Yanbu, KSA)
A green surfactant plant for Betaines for Unilever Oleochemicals Indonesia (SMK, Medan, Indonesia)
A DAMAPA recovery plant for UOI ((SMK, Medan, Indonesia)
A metering flange for AFR (in Inconel) for UMPL, India
A Betaine plant for Unilever, USA.