TCG's investment plans comes amid strong growth for chemicals in India to drive a 7% growth, but also at a time of oversupply in the global petrochemicals business
The stock of HPL Electric & Power hit a new high of Rs 273.55, and was trading higher for the fourth straight day on Monday
In August, HPL Electric and Power won an order worth Rs 417 crore from West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company
Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd (HPL) will invest Rs 3,000 crore to set up new plants in West Bengal, a company spokesperson said on Thursday. It will build the first on-purpose propylene plant and a phenol unit at its existing manufacturing facility at Haldia, and both the projects are expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2026, he said. The phenol plant will have a production capacity of 300 kilo tonnes per annum of phenol and 185 KTPA of acetone, he said. "With the commissioning of these plants, the overall chemical business portfolio is expected to increase by an additional Rs 5,000 crore," Narayan said. The propylene plant will be based on olefin conversion technology (OCT). According to the spokesperson, the company earned a revenue of Rs 999 crore from speciality chemicals during the last 2022-23 fiscal. HPL said the proposed investment will likely be the largest in West Bengal in the chemical sector in the last two decades. Narayan said the two projects will generat
The Indian smart metering market, with a staggering 250 million metering points, is on the cusp of exponential growth
Over 200,000 investors applied in the IPO
IPO received bids for over 11.53 crore shares as against the total issue size of 1,44,40,001, translating into a subscription of 7.98 times
The price band for the IPO has been fixed at Rs 175 to Rs 202 per share