Kutch Chemical Starts 220,000 TPA Chlor-Alkali Plant at Padana, Gujarat, with thyssenkrupp nucera Technology
thyssenkrupp nucera has commissioned a chlor-alkali plant for Kutch Chemical Industries Limited at Padana, Gujarat, and the electrolysers are now running.
The plant: • Capacity: 220,000 tonnes a year of caustic soda (NaOH), with peak output of up to 675 tonnes a day (100% NaOH basis). thyssenkrupp nucera describes it as one of India's largest single-train chlor-alkali plants. • Five electrolysers using thyssenkrupp nucera's BM Generation 6+ technology. Each can produce up to 135 tonnes a day of 100% NaOH, which the company says is the highest-capacity single electrolyser installed in India. • thyssenkrupp nucera supplied the engineering, its proprietary technology and equipment, and support during start-up and commissioning.
Kutch Chemical will use the caustic soda and chlorine in its own production and sell them in the Indian market. The two companies have worked together since 2017, starting with Kutch Chemical's first chlor-alkali plant.
Jai Prakash Goyal, Whole-time Director at Kutch Chemical, called the commissioning an important step for the company's growth in the Indian market.
What it means for buyers and suppliers
A large new caustic soda train in Gujarat adds supply close to the state's dye, pharma, alumina and textile users, which can ease delivered prices in western India. Chlor-alkali plants must also find outlets for chlorine, so expect more offers of chlorine and its derivatives (such as hydrochloric acid) from the region.
Source: Hydrocarbon Processing (5 November 2026), from thyssenkrupp nucera's announcement; also reported by Chemical Industry Digest. Photo: a membrane-electrolysis chlor-alkali plant (Spolchemie, Czech Republic) — representative, not the Padana plant. RomanM82, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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