Incorporated in Nov.'90 as a public limited company, Natraj Proteins set up a solvent extraction plant for the manufacture of crude oil, edible grade refined oil and de-oiled cake. The company was promoted by Surendra Singh Arora, Kailash Chandra Sharma and Jagdish Prasad Agarwal. The company manufactures crude oil, edible grade refined oil and de-oiled cake. Due to the delay in the implementation of the project to set up a 200-tpd solvent extraction plant for processing soyabean, rapeseed, rapeseed oil cake, and other oil bearing substances and a refinery of 50 tpd at Nagpur Kalan, Madhya Pradesh, commercial production commenced only in 1994. A public issue was made at par aggregating to Rs.212 lacs. The technology selected by the company for solvent plant and refinery is well proven within the country and the company is making all the efforts to update its technology.A new Refined Oil 'Poustik' was launched during 2001.