The present annual production capacity of Chavara unit engaged in dry as well as wet(dredging/ up-gradation)
mining and mineral separation stands at 1,54,000t of ilmenite, 9,500t of rutile, 14,000t of zircon and 7,000t of sillimanite.
After becoming a full-fledged Central Government Undertaking in 1963 under the administrative control of Department of Atomic Energy(DAE), IREL took over a number of private companies engaged in mining and separation of beach sand minerals in southern part of the country and
established two more Divisions one at Chavara, Kerala and the other at Manavalakurichi(MK), Tamil Nadu.