Morbi’s resin pipeline gets another 1,180-tonne-a-month project—but the water and fuel… – Projects, Capacity & Operations, 29 Jul 2026

Morbi’s resin and ceramics capacity bet

Morbi’s resin pipeline gets another 1,180-tonne-a-month project—but the water and fuel choices deserve scrutiny

A Rs 6.56-crore Morbi expansion triples Lupitite Polymer’s capacity—and ties the bet tightly to ceramics

Shivox’s environmental budget is unusually large beside its project cost

Lupitite’s 500-tonne binder line is a ceramics-cycle bet disguised as chemical diversification

Battery chemicals: Big ambitions, hard qualification gates

India has announced 178 GWh of battery-cell capacity—the chemicals race now depends on qualification, not announcements

Gujarat Fluorochemicals is spending Rs 6,000 crore to cover nearly 70% of an LFP cell’s material value

Himadri’s 100-GWh battery-material ambition comes with a Rs 30,000-crore revenue promise—and a long execution bridge

Sudeep Pharma has 42 battery-material qualification orders before its first 25,000-tonne phase starts

Neogen Chemicals is sequencing electrolytes before LiPF6 salts—but global oversupply may reach the market first

Chemical expansions face the execution test

Epigral moves downstream into 125,000 tonnes a year of epoxy resins

Epigral’s CPVC and ECH expansions target world- and India-scale positions

Epigral wants derivatives and specialties to reach 70% of revenue by FY28

Nuberg supplies a Colombia chlorine-emergency system; commissioning is the next proof point

Balaji Amines has commissioned a 100,000-tonne DME plant—the market test is LPG blending, not nameplate capacity

Balaji Speciality’s Rs 750-crore expansion attempts several chemistry ramps in the same financial year