Sika opens new plant in Eastern India
The building materials group Sika is opening a new plant in Kharagpur in eastern India. With the targeted expansion of production capacity, the globally active Zug-based company wants to benefit from the growth market in the West Bengal region with more than 100 million inhabitants.
Sika is commissioning a new plant in Kharagpur in eastern India. There, the globally active Zug-based specialty chemicals company intends to increase its production and supply capacity for eastern India, according to a media release. This is Sika’s twelfth manufacturing plant in India. Sika has been active in the Indian market for 40 years.
The new factory is located in an industrial park with good infrastructure links and has state-of-the-art production facilities as well as offices, laboratories, storage and logistics areas. Mortar products, concrete admixtures and setting accelerators for shotcrete are manufactured there for customers in the West Bengal region with a population of more than 100 million.
“India is a growth market for Sika with enormous potential,” Mike Campion, Regional Head Asia/Pacific, is quoted as saying in the media release. The world’s most populous country shows strong industrialisation and urbanisation trends. Sika intends to benefit from this by concentrating on large infrastructure and construction projects in the country’s ten largest metropolitan regions. “With the new plant in Kharagpur, we can efficiently serve upcoming large projects in the east and northeast, including the capital Kolkata.” Kolkata is the capital of the state of West Bengal.
The construction sector in India is reportedly projected to grow by 6.5 per cent this year. Next year, it is expected to grow by 6.4 per cent. In addition, the central government is particularly promoting “the expansion of transport and logistics infrastructure on rail and road, with the aim of driving industrialisation in the country and increasing manufacturing capacities”.