Magadi Soda Company

Magadi Soda Company

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Minerals
Founded	1911; 113 years ago (1911)
Headquarters	Magadi, Kajiado County , Kenya
Products	Soda ash
Parent	Tata Chemicals

The Magadi Soda Company manufactures soda ash at the Kenyan town of Magadi, which is in southwestern Kenya. It is the largest manufacturer of soda ash in Africa. The company was founded in 1911 and mines trona from Lake Magadi, in the Rift Valley. Lake Magadi has one of the purest surface deposits of trona. The trona is converted by Magadi to soda ash, at a facility near the mining operations, and the soda ash is transported by rail to Mombasa for onward shipping.^{[citation needed]}

Magadi is a subsidiary of Brunner Mond, Imperial Chemical Industries, and of Tata Chemicals, and is headquartered in Magadi, Kenya.^{[citation needed]}

Transport

The company operates a railway branchline linking with the main Kenyan Railway System.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Titus Naikuni
• Tata Chemicals
• Tata Group

References

• Hill, M F (1964). Magadi: the story of the Magadi Soda Company. Birmingham, England: Kynoch Press for the Magadi Soda Co. OCLC 10552595.

External links

• Magadi Soda Company Official Website Archived 24 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine

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