The House of Stanes, a proud lineage that began way back in 1861, with Sir Robert Stanes. The organisation was founded as a planting company and the coffee curing works were installed in a temporary workshop acquired from the Madras Railway Company, Coimbatore. This marked the beginning of an Enterprise, a beginning for greater things to come: expansion of plantation holdings; diversification into Fertilizer mixing (1890), Automobile Workshop, Tyre Retreading (1940), and many more. In its centenary year, 1961 the House of Stanes became an integral part of the Amalgamations Group. The group with an annual turnover of around 4000 crores is one of the largest light engineering groups in South India with 29 companies, five among them have completed over one hundred years of operation. Today, T.Stanes is a large business house from peninsular India, engaged in manufacturing and marketing, encompassing a diverse range of activities that include - Automobiles, Tyre retreading , Tea plantations, Chemical fertilizer blends , Organic fertilizers, Biofertilizers, Chemical pesticides, Bio-pesticides, Botanical pesticides, Micronutrient blends, Urea coate, Antitranspirant, Immunomodulators and seeds to name just a few.