Aarti Industries spurts on diversifying into toluene-based derivatives

19 Oct 2016 Evaluate

Aarti Industries is currently trading at Rs. 747.95, up by 8.20 points or 1.11% from its previous closing of Rs. 739.75 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 742.80 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 757.00 and Rs. 742.00 respectively. So far 17620 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'B' stock of face value Rs. 5 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 757.00 on 19-Oct-2016 and a 52 week low of Rs. 417.00 on 26-Feb-2016.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 757.00 and Rs. 685.40 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 6232.36 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 54.80%, while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 15.47% and 29.72% respectively.

Aarti Industries has reportedly diversified into toluene-based derivatives this year by setting up 30,000 tonne per annum (TPA) greenfield capacity at Jhagadia (Gujarat). The project, which is expected to commence operations in second half of FY17, will achieve capacity utlisation of 25-30 percent in FY17 and 70-80 percent in FY19. The company is expecting to generate revenue of Rs 350-400 crore over the next three-four years from the project.

The company has already commissioned an ethylation unit with capacity of 8000-10000 TPA capacity to manufacture ethylene derivatives at Dahej, which will receive input material from the toluene plant.

Aarti Industries is engaged in manufacturing of dyes, pigments, pharmaceuticals, agro chemicals and rubber chemicals. It operates in four segments: basic chemicals, specialty chemicals, agro chemicals and pharmaceuticals.

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