Gujarat Alkalies begin commercial production at Dahej

Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals Limited informed the bourses that the company has started its commercial production at Dahej plant.

The company has taken up the project for the expansion of 16,500 tonnes per annum (TPA) of Anhydrous Aluminium Chloride (AAC) plant. The cost of the said project is around Rs 35 crore.

Company has guided incremental revenue from this expansion of nearly Rs 65 crore.

With the above said expansion, the total capacity of company’s AAC plant at Dahej now stands at 42,420 TPA.

The company also mentioned about the complete shutdown of all its plants at Baroda and Dahej, which would result in the delay of implementation of other projects in the coming time.

Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals Limited is a chemical manufacturing company that offers caustic soda lye and caustic soda flakes. Its product portfolio includes caustic soda, chlorine, hydrochloric acid, hydrogen, chloromethane, potassium hydroxide, etc.

In today’s trading session, the stock of Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals gained nearly six per cent and made an intraday high of Rs 215.85 on BSE.