Sree Maruthi Marine Industries Limited primary business segment is Industrial Salt. They undertake integrated salt works i.e. production of Salt plus other by-products. Both these processes happen simultaneously.
The salt unit serves as a good backward integration conduit and uninterrupted supply of salt for the chIor-alkali plant of the conglomerate.
Bitterns, a by product is routed for value added production of Liquid Bromine, which has demand from Pharmaceutical and specialty chemical industries. Research is on to recover more useful by-products from bitterns.