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Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals: Gaining market leadership – 28 Jun 2022
Jun 28, 2022
GACL is the second-largest player in the domestic caustic chlorine industry with integrated operations. It produces a wide range of products, including caustic soda, liquid and gaseous chlorine, hydrogen peroxide, phosphoric acid and aluminium chloride, which find application across a diversified group of industries, including textile, pulp and paper, aluminium, detergents, soaps, rayon, plastics, pharmaceuticals, water treatment, and agricultural chemicals. The company is gaining a significant market leadership position in the caustic soda industry while securing a significant portion of its power requirement (its major cost component) through captive low-cost sources, along with a greater share of value-added products in its sales mix, to consistently earn a high PBILDT margin with greater resilience, despite the impact of the inherent cyclicality in the Chlor-alkali industry and the competition from imports
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