Karnataka Soaps & Detergents Limited (KSDL)is one of the leaders amongst manufacturers and suppliers of quality toilet soaps, detergents, incense sticks and talcum powder. The company offers its products in a variety of specifications, such as fragrances, characteristics and properties to satisfy its most demanding clients the world across. Driven by the belief that quality and innovation begets leadership, the group is committed to provide superior quality products and excellent customer service to offer maximum satisfaction to its clients.

KSDL's Emblem
A mythological creation from the Puranas - Sharabha is illustrated as the body of a lion with the head of an elephant. The creature embodies the combined virtues of wisdom, courage & strength and was adopted as the official emblem of company to symbolize its philosophy.



History of origin
The Government Soap Factory was established in 1916 by the Maharaja of Mysore, his Highness Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar and Diwan Sir M.Visvesvaraya. The Sandalwood Oil Division (Mysore) was incepted in the same year and the Sandalwood Oil Division at Shimoga was established in the year 1944.

In the year 1980, Government of Karnataka formed Karnataka Soaps and & Detergents Limited (KSDL) by integrating the sandal oil factories at Mysore and Shimoga and the Government Soap Factory at Bangalore. Karnataka Soaps & Detergents Limited has been incorporated as a company under the Company's Act 1956.

With an experience of over 89 years in the industry, KSDL is a true inheritor of the India's golden legacy. The company is, today, one of the largest producers of sandal soap, including sandalwood oil in the world with an annual turnover of Rs. 125 crores.

Infact, Mysore Sandal Soap, a brand product, manufactured by KSDL, has been manufactured since 1916 when the king of Mysore set up the Government Soap Factory in Bangalore. Since then there is no looking back and the company has been able to live upto its name even today, with the emrgence of so many toilet soaps and detergents in the market.

Infrastructure
Situated in Bangalore, the company is equipped with sophisticated infrastructural facilities for production of toilet soaps and detergents. With an installed capacity of 26,000 tonnes, the soap plant has one of the largest production facilities in the country. Based on state-of-the-art technology, our soap flexibility has an unique facility to process as many as 10 different varieties of soaps simultaneously. Till March 2006, our most famous product, Mysore Sandal soap held a 6500 tonne share among the 450 thousand tonnes of soap manufactured and marketed annually in India.

We also undertake orders for manufacturing soaps as per the specific requirements of our clients.

Quality Assurance
At Karnataka Soaps & Detergents, we are committed to achieve excellence in all our products and services. The company has a long standing tradition of maintaining the high quality standards, right from the selection of raw materials to processing, packaging and final delivery of end product to customers.

The company has set up a full-fledged Quality Control and R&D department to continually improve the quality of existing products and to develop new products that can meet the growing demands of its ever increasing clientele. Refining and revising of processes is a major strength of our R&D team.

Clientele
We work with a customer oriented approach and every care is taken to give our clients a pleasant and hassle-free business experience while they deal with us. Our company has a strong team of sales executives that work in close coordination with our clients to understand their unique and specific requirements and deliver products in exact accordance.

Most of our customers are satisfied from our products and services and as a result of which we get repeated orders. Major share of our revenues come from our overseas exports to UAE, Bahrain, USA, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, South East Asian countries etc.

Why Us?
Some of our strengths that make us a reliable business partner to work with are -

• Quality products
• Experience and sophisticated infrastructural facilities
• Customization
• Proven record of timely supplies
• Competitive prices
• Customer focused approach.
• A trustworthy name since 1916.

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