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[[File:Trichy Night View! (6621644333).jpg|thumb|[[Trichy]] at night]]
The '''economy of [[Tiruchirappalli]]''' is mainly industrial. The factories of [[Ordnance Factories Board]] such as [[Ordnance Factory Tiruchirappalli]] and [[Heavy Alloy Penetrator Project]]. [[Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited]] (BHEL), and [[Golden Rock Railway Workshop]] are located in Tiruchirappalli. Due to the presence of boiler manufacturing units BHEL and Cethar Vessels, Tiruchirappalli is also known as the "Boiler capital of India".<ref name="economictimes_20100110">{{cite news|title=Trichy: IT infrastructure to pep up property prices|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/features/property/trichy-it-infrastructure-to-pep-up-property-prices/articleshow/5429292.cms|work=[[The Economic Times|Economic Times]]|date=10 January 2010}}</ref>

== Cigars ==
Tiruchirappalli was popular throughout the [[British Empire]] for its unique variety of ''[[cheroot]]'' known as the [[Trichinopoly cigar]].<ref name="hobsonjobson_tritchies">{{cite book|title=Hobson-Jobson: A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases|chapter=Trichies, Tritchies|url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.2:1:367.hobson|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121212143256/http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.2:1:367.hobson|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-12-12|publisher=J. Murray|year=1903|first1=Sir Henry|last1=Yule|authorlink1=Sir Henry Yule|first2=Arthur Coke|last2=Burnell|authorlink2=Arthur Coke Burnell|page=938}}</ref> The Trichinopoly cigar was actually manufactured from tobacco grown near the town of [[Dindigul]]<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Trichinopoly |volume= 27 | pages = 265–266 see end of first para |quote=... the well-known Trichinopoly cigars are chiefly manufactured from tobacco grown outside the district at Dindigul}}</ref> near the present-day Tiruchirappalli.
The characteristics of the ashes produced by the fabled Trichinopoly are described by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s fictitious detective [[Sherlock Holmes]] in his 1887 novel ''[[A Study in Scarlet]]''. At its peak, over 12 million cigars were manufactured and exported annually.<ref name="imperialgazetteer1908v24p36" /> Tanned hides and skins from Tiruchirappalli were exported to the UK.<ref name="imperialgazetteer1908v24p36">''[[The Imperial Gazetteer of India]]'', Vol 24, p 36</ref>

== Markets ==
[[File:Chili Vendors - Tiruchirappalli - India.JPG|150px|thumb|right|Chilli vendors in Tiruchirappalli]]

The city has a number of retail and wholesale markets, the chief among them being the Gandhi market which is an important source of vegetables<ref name="thehindu_20101228">{{cite news|title=Arrival of onions from Maharashtra stabilizes price|url=http://www.hindu.com/2010/12/28/stories/2010122854770800.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101231072338/http://www.hindu.com/2010/12/28/stories/2010122854770800.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=31 December 2010|author=Syed Muthathar Saqaf|location=Chennai, India|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=28 December 2010}}</ref> for the whole region.<ref name="thehindu_20100601">{{cite news|title=Market to be shifted|url=http://www.hindu.com/2010/06/01/stories/2010060158570100.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100606024606/http://www.hindu.com/2010/06/01/stories/2010060158570100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 June 2010|location=Chennai, India|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=1 June 2010}}</ref>

== Retail chains ==
Popular textile stores like ''[[The Chennai Silks]]'',<ref name="chennaisilks">{{cite web|title=About Us|publisher=The Chennai Silks|url=https://www.thechennaisilks.com/about-us}}</ref> [[Pothys]] and ''[[Naidu Hall]]''<ref name="naidhall">{{cite web|title=About Us|url=http://www.naiduhall.co.in/aboutus.html|publisher=Naidu Hall|access-date=30 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110528112448/http://www.naiduhall.co.in/aboutus.html|archive-date=28 May 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> and jewellery stores JOYALUKKAS and Jos Alukkas<ref name="showrooms">{{cite web|title=Showrooms|publisher=JOYALUKKAS and Jos Alukkas|url=http://www.josalukkasjewellery.com/showrooms.html|access-date=30 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110620124715/http://josalukkasjewellery.com/showrooms.html|archive-date=20 June 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> have showrooms in Tiruchirappalli. There are also branches of Chennai-based eatery [[Adyar Ananda Bhavan]].<ref name="a2b">{{cite web|title=About Us|publisher=Adyar Ananda Bhavan|url=http://www.aabsweets.in/aboutus.html|access-date=30 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090301012149/http://aabsweets.in/aboutus.html|archive-date=1 March 2009|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

== Industries ==
[[File:Unit-7 facade.jpg|thumb|left|180px|The entrance to Unit-7 of Cethar Vessels Private Limited]]
[[File:Armoury Gate.JPG|thumb|left|180px|Golden Rock Railway Workshop]]
Tiruchirappalli is a major engineering equipment manufacturing hub in [[Tamil Nadu]]. The [[Golden Rock Railway Workshop]], moved to Tiruchirappalli from [[Nagapattinam]] in 1928, is one of the three railway [[workshop]]–cum–production unit in Tamil Nadu.<ref name="colonialismp126">{{cite book|title=Children of Colonialism: Anglo-Indians in a Postcolonial World|page=126|author=Lionel Caplan|publisher=Berg Publishers|year=2003|isbn=1859736327|id=}}</ref> The workshops produced 650 conventional and low-container flat wagons during the year 2007–08.<ref name="goldenrock_thehindu20080411">{{cite news|title=Golden Rock railway workshop rolls out stainless steel wagon prototype|url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/04/11/stories/2008041156540200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414210046/http://www.hindu.com/2008/04/11/stories/2008041156540200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 April 2008|author=P. Rajaram|date=11 April 2008|work=[[The Hindu]]|location=Chennai, India}}</ref> The chief workshop manager's office at Golden Rock was awarded a star rating by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency for the proper and regulated usage of electricity in its offices.<ref name="toi_20101216">{{cite news|title=Southern Railway to launch new generation locomotive to save power|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Southern-Railway-to-launch-new-generation-locomotive-to-save-power-/articleshow/7108514.cms|date=16 December 2010|work=Times of India}}</ref>

A High Pressure Boiler manufacturing plant was set up by the [[Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited]] (BHEL), India's largest public sector engineering company, in May 1965.<ref name="casestudiesp71">{{cite book|title=Case Studies In Marketing: The Indian Context|edition=4th|author=Srinivasan|publisher=PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.|id=|page=71|chapter=Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited|year=2009|isbn=978-81-203-3543-1}}</ref><ref name="inflationp122">{{cite book|title=Inflation accounting practices in India's corporate sector|author=Mohd Rizwan Ahmad|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distributors|year=2003|id=|page=122|isbn=81-269-0216-7}}</ref> This was followed by a Seamless Steel Plant set up at a cost of {{INRConvert|580|m}} and a Boiler Auxiliaries Plant. The three manufacturing units constitute the BHEL industrial complex and cover a total area of about {{Convert|22927.4|m2|ft2}}. The plant can generate up to {{convert|6.2|MW}} of electricity using coal as a resource.<ref name="bioenergyp19">{{cite book|title=Bio-energy for rural energisation: proceedings of the National Bio-Energy Convention-95 on Bio-Energy for Rural engergisation, organised by Bio-Energy Society of India, during December 4–15, 1995 at I.I.T. New Delhi|author=R. C. Maheshwari|author2=Pradeep Chaturvedi|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|year=1997|page=19|isbn=81-7022-670-8|id=}}</ref> Other important industries in Tiruchirappalli include the Trichy Distilleries and Chemicals Limited (TDCL) which was established at [[Senthaneerpuram]] in the then [[Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli|Golden Rock municipality]] in 1966.<ref name="madrasdistp553">{{cite book|title=Madras District Gazetteers: Tiruchirappalli (pt. 1-2)|page=553|year=1998|publisher=Superintendent, Government Press}}</ref> and the Trichy Steel Rolling Mills which was started as a private limited company on 27 June 1961.<ref name="madrasdistp539">{{cite book|title=Madras District Gazetteers: Tiruchirappalli (pt. 1-2)|page=539|year=1998|publisher=Superintendent, Government Press}}</ref> The Trichy Distilleries and Chemicals Limited manufactures [[rectified spirit]],<ref name="madrasdistp553"/> [[acetaldehyde]],<ref name="madrasdistp553" /> [[acetic acid]],<ref name="madrasdistp553" /> [[acetic anhydride]]<ref name="narcotip56">{{cite book|title=Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Their Precursors|page=56|publisher=United Nations Publications|isbn=92-1-048082-1|id=}}</ref> and [[ethyl acetate]]. It is one of the biggest private sector distilleries in Tamil Nadu and produced 13.5 million litres of [[Distilled beverage|spirit alcohol]] between December 2005 and November 2006.<ref name="gov_prohibition">{{cite web|title=Demand No. 37: Prohibition and Excise|publisher=Home, Prohibition and Excise Department|page=12|url=http://www.tn.gov.in/policynotes/archives/policy2007-08/pdf/prohibition_excise.pdf|date=August 2007|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121013115/http://www.tn.gov.in/policynotes/archives/policy2007-08/pdf/prohibition_excise.pdf|archivedate=21 January 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Cethar Vessels is a boiler plant based in Tiruchirappalli. It was established in the year 1981 and started manufacturing activities in 1984. Achieved a sales turnover of {{INRConvert|14.05|b}} in 2007–2008. Present net worth of the company is {{INRConvert|3.32|b}}. Cethar Vessels are in the fore front of meeting the requirements of a wide spectrum of industry with their products and services. Be it Boilers for Power Generation or for Steam Generation in Process Industries, Cethar have the expertise and experience of over two decades. Boiler Auxiliaries that include Fans, Electrostatic Precipitator, Cooling Towers, Fuel Handling Systems, and Water Treatment Systems are also in our repertoire. Cethar's capable personnel have the expertise to build Power Plants whether Captive or Co-Generation mode, in an EPC Basis. The needs of Industries such as Paper, Chemical, Steel, Cement, Distilleries, Textiles, Rayons, Sugar, Food, PetroChemicals and various other Process industries, can be met by Cethar with their modern Boiler Technologies.

== Weapon manufacturing units ==
The [[Ordnance Factory Tiruchirappalli]] (OFT) and [[Heavy Alloy Penetrator Project]] (HAPP) are defence establishments, operated by the Indian [[Ordnance Factories Board]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ofbindia.nic.in/units/index.php?unit=happ |title=Heavy Alloy Penetrator Project |accessdate=2011-05-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527001950/http://ofbindia.nic.in/units/index.php?unit=happ |archivedate=27 May 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> located at a distance of about {{Convert|25|km}} from the heart of Tiruchirappalli.<ref name="oft">{{cite web |url=http://ofbindia.nic.in/units/index.php?unit=oft |title=Indian Ordnance Factories: Ordnance Factory Tiruchirapalli |publisher=Ofbindia.nic.in |accessdate=7 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110423103517/http://ofbindia.nic.in/units/index.php?unit=oft |archivedate=23 April 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> They are amongst the 41 Indian Ordnance Factories operated by the OFB throughout India. OFT was established in 1966 by the then Prime Minister of India, [[Indira Gandhi]] and HAPP in 1980s as a unit of [[Defence Research and Development Organisation]] in collaboration with other government defence agencies and under the assistance of some foreign partners. It was later on handed over to OFB after full scale development of the product was completed, to start the full-scale production.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/19/stories/2007031903350200.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109083333/http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/19/stories/2007031903350200.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 November 2012 |title=Tamil Nadu / Tiruchi News : Ordnance Factories Day celebrated in Tiruchi |date=19 March 2007 |accessdate=7 May 2011 |work=[[The Hindu]] |location=Chennai, India}}</ref> The factory produces the ''Fin Stabilized Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot'' (FSAPDS) which is a weapon of high kinetic energy used in tanks and other armor-piercing ammunition.<ref name="oft"/>

== Software ==
{{Main|ELCOT IT Park Trichy}}
[[File:ELCOT IT Park.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Vuram's Office at ELCOT IT Park, Tiruchirappalli]]
The annual software exports of the Tiruchi region amount to {{INR}} 262 million ([[US$]]5.8 million).<ref name="economictimes_it">{{cite news|title=Trichy: IT infrastructure to pep up property prices|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/features/property/trichy-it-infrastructure-to-pep-up-property-prices/articleshow/5429292.cms|work=[[The Economic Times|Economic Times]] | date=10 January 2010}}</ref> The ELCOT IT Park, the first IT park in the city has been commissioned at a cost of {{INR}} 600 million ([[US$]]13.5 million) and inaugurated by the Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, [[M. K. Stalin]] on 9 December 2010.<ref name="thehindu_tiruchiitcomm">{{cite news|title=Tiruchi IT Park commissioned|url=http://www.hindu.com/2010/12/10/stories/2010121061490100.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101212220301/http://www.hindu.com/2010/12/10/stories/2010121061490100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 December 2010|date=10 December 2010|work=[[The Hindu]]|location=Chennai, India}}</ref><ref name="thehindu_itpark">{{cite news|title=Tiruchi gets IT park|date=10 December 2010|url=http://www.hindu.com/2010/12/10/stories/2010121059100100.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101213205513/http://www.hindu.com/2010/12/10/stories/2010121059100100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 December 2010|work=[[The Hindu]]|location=Chennai, India}}</ref> Set up by the Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu, the park occupies an area of {{Convert|59.74|ha|acre}} and constitutes a [[Special Economic Zone]] that has employs 1535 people in the various organizations functioning from the IT park as of December 2021.<ref name="thehindu_itpark" /><ref name="thehindu_20080719">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/19/stories/2008071953840500.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725093732/http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/19/stories/2008071953840500.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 July 2008 |title=Tamil Nadu / Tiruchi News : ELCOT to build 50,000 sq.ft. of office space in Tier II cities |date=19 July 2008 |accessdate=21 April 2011 |work=[[The Hindu]] |location=Chennai, India}}</ref>

In 2017, the hyperautomation services company, [[Vuram]] that specializes in low-code enterprise automation started operations at the [[ELCOT IT Park Trichy]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/elcot-on-expansion-mode-at-navalpattu/article24496504.ece|title = ELCOT on expansion mode at Navalpattu|newspaper = The Hindu|date = 23 July 2018|last1 = Krishnamoorthy|first1 = R.}}</ref> The organization's technology stack encompasses business process management (BPM), robotic process automation (RPA), optical character recognition (OCR), document processing, and analytics. The organization has announced that it will continue to expand its workforce in the region hiring 400 more employees across India.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/it-company-vuram-to-hire-400-professionals-this-year-11616063943151.html|title = IT company Vuram to hire 400 professionals this year|date = 18 March 2021}}</ref> Also, the Indian software company [[Infosys]], is planning to start its operations in Tiruchirappalli.<ref name="economictimes_20090728">{{cite news|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2009-07-28/news/27653675_1_tier-ii-software-major-infosys-managing-director-s-gopalakrishnan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121100354/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2009-07-28/news/27653675_1_tier-ii-software-major-infosys-managing-director-s-gopalakrishnan |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 January 2012 |title=Infosys eyeing Tier-II cities for expansion - Economic Times |work=[[The Economic Times|Economic Times]] |date=28 July 2009 |accessdate=21 April 2011}}</ref> Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic and CSR arm of Infosys, has signed an MoU with the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) - Tiruchirapalli to construct a 100-bed hostel for girls on their campus.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/infosys-foundation-to-construct-100-bed-hostel-for-girls-at-iiit-tiruchirapalli/articleshow/80326188.cms|title=Infosys Foundation to construct 100-bed hostel for girls at IIIT - Tiruchirapalli|newspaper=The Economic Times}}</ref>

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