India’s Chemicals & Petrochemicals market is estimated to be worth $215 billion, and it is projected to reach $300 billion by 2025.
Chemical and chemical product exports made up 11.7% of total exports in 2021–22 as opposed to 12.9% in 2020–21 (fertilizer and pharmaceutical products excluded). Up until September 2022, its share of the total export in 2022–2023 was 10.8%.
Between 2017–18 and 2021–22, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for the export of all chemicals and chemical products (apart from pharmaceutical and fertilizer products) was 13.86%, compared to 12.62% for all national exports.
For manufactured products based on WPI, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2017–18 to 2021–22 was 4.4%, whereas for chemicals and chemical products, it was 4.4%.
In July 2022, the Index of Industrial Production of Chemicals and Chemical Products reached a new high of 137.2, surpassing its lowest recorded value of 109.1 in May 2021.
Major Chemical production dropped from 54.32 lakh tons during the same period the previous year to 53.54 lakh tons in 2023–24 (up to August 2023) in 2023–24.
In 2023–2024, 34.07 lakh tons of certain petrochemicals, like synthetic detergent intermediates, were produced (as of August 2023)
List of Top 5 Diversified Chemicals in India (BSE) based on Net Sales.
Company Name | Net Sales (Rs. cr) |
Pidilite Ind | 10,597.07 |
Godrej Ind | 4,487.96 |
Galaxy Surfacta | 3,159.26 |
Nikhil Adhesive | 743.46 |
Aarti Surfactan | 601.29 |
Source: BSE, India, last updated 27 February, 2024
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1. Raghavan, R., & Joshi, J. B. (2018). India’s expanding chemical industry. Chemical Engineering Progress, 114(12), 49-56.
2. Biswas, P. K., Banerjee, P., Choudhury, M. A., & Kukreja, M. P. Industry Structure and the Pattern of Innovation: Chemical Industry of India, 2000 to 2010.
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