Germany’s thyssenkrupp nucera announced on 5 November 2026 that it had commissioned a chlor-alkali plant for Kutch Chemical Industries Limited in Padana, Gujarat. The facility has an annual caustic soda production capacity of 220,000 tonnes and is part of an expansion announced in June 2022.
The Dortmund-based company provided engineering services, proprietary technology and equipment, and supported the plant’s start-up and commissioning. The German supplier said all five electrolyzers at the facility had started operating.
Plant capacity and domestic supply
The facility uses thyssenkrupp nucera’s BM Generation 6+ technology. Each electrolyzer can produce up to 135 tonnes of caustic soda a day, giving the plant a combined daily capacity of up to 675 tonnes, measured as pure sodium hydroxide. The supplier described it as one of India’s largest single-train chlor-alkali plants.
Kutch Chemical plans to use both caustic soda and chlorine in its own operations and sell both products in India. The company, part of the Goyal Group of Industries, manufactures and exports bulk and specialty chemicals. Its Gujarat complex carries out chlorination and nitration and makes dye intermediates. Caustic soda is used in products such as soaps and detergents and in aluminium processing.
Kiran Joseph, Chief Executive Officer of thyssenkrupp nucera India, said the technology was designed to improve the efficiency and reliability of chlor-alkali production. Jai Prakash Goyal, Whole-time Director at Kutch Chemical Industries, said the commissioning would support the company’s growth in the Indian market.
From the 2022 order to commissioning
The companies began working together in 2017. The original Padana plant began operating in 2020 with five electrolyzers using thyssenkrupp nucera’s BM Single Element technology.
When the German company announced the expansion order on 30 June 2022, it said the contract covered technology licensing and the supply of proprietary equipment and was valued in the low double-digit millions of euros. The announcement cited growing regional demand for basic chemicals and rising requirements at Kutch Chemical’s own operations as reasons for the expansion.
The original announcement targeted completion and commissioning in 2023. The November 2026 announcement did not explain the change in timing.
