Decoding India's Chemical Market – 11 Jun 2026

New Demand Frontiers

India's data center boom is quietly building a new specialty chemicals market - and ELANTAS is moving first

Hindustan Zinc's industrial park model turns raw-material proximity into a chemicals business

The Hormuz Premium

The xylene complex quietly reprices: Hazira and Kandla are both pressing one-year highs

MEG's one-rupee dip hides the real risk: India's polyester feedstock rides on Gulf shipping lanes

Flat weeks, fat year: HDPE up Rs 66 and LDPE up Rs 47 on-year tell the real polymer story

When Policy Moves Markets

US trade probes put India's fibre chain on notice - and Delhi's rebuttal is itself revealing

R22 at Rs 950: phase-out economics, not just summer, are doing the lifting

Paraquat marches Rs 129in six months while glyphosate sits in legal limbo

Grinding Back Up

Epichlorohydrin's grind back from Rs 187 says the epoxy chain is alive - and investors have noticed

Handing Back Gains

The plasticizer complex exhales: DOA and TOTM hand back part of a torrid quarter