Grasim Industries (Aditya Birla Group) Starts Commercial Production at 50,000 TPA Epichlorohydrin Plant in Vilayat, Gujarat
Grasim Industries Limited, the Aditya Birla Group company, has started commercial production at its new epichlorohydrin (ECH) plant at Vilayat in Bharuch district, Gujarat. In a filing to BSE and NSE on 21 October 2026, the company said production began with effect from that day and that the plant has an installed capacity of 50,000 tonnes per annum (TPA).
Key facts: • Product: epichlorohydrin (ECH, CAS 106-89-8), the main raw material for epoxy resins. • Capacity: 50,000 TPA installed. • Start of commercial production: 21 October 2026. • Site: Vilayat, Gujarat, where Grasim already runs a caustic soda (chlor-alkali) plant commissioned in 2013 and an epoxy resin plant, according to the company's website. • The filing gave no investment or revenue figures.
Trade coverage described the plant as deepening the link between Grasim's chlor-alkali business and its chlorine derivatives at Vilayat, so more of the chlorine it makes is used on site instead of being sold as merchant chlorine. Epoxy resins made from ECH go into industrial and protective coatings, wind-turbine blade composites, electronics and construction chemicals.
What it means for buyers and suppliers
Grasim now makes its own ECH next to its epoxy plant, so much of the output is likely to be used in-house; the company has not said how much, if any, it will sell on the open market. Epoxy formulators and other ECH buyers should ask Grasim about merchant supply and compare landed prices with imported material. Suppliers of merchant chlorine in Gujarat may see less demand from Grasim over time.
Source: Grasim Industries' intimation to BSE and NSE dated 21 October 2026 ("Commencement of commercial production of Epichlorohydrin plant at Vilayat, Gujarat"); Chem In Digest (26 October 2026); Grasim Industries website (chemicals business). Photo: space-filling model of the epichlorohydrin molecule (carbon grey, hydrogen white, oxygen red, chlorine green). Ben Mills, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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