Cluster · Bharuch district, Gujarat
Toll manufacturers in Ankleshwar, Gujarat
The largest concentration of multi-purpose chemical batch plants in India, an hour from Surat on the Delhi–Mumbai corridor.
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No verified unit lists Ankleshwar as its cluster yet. Listings appear here the day our desk approves them, and the guide below is how we qualify one when it does.
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About the Ankleshwar cluster
Ankleshwar’s GIDC estate, in Bharuch district, covers roughly 1,600 hectares and is the deepest bench of multi-purpose chemical batch plants in India. TERI’s 2012 cluster profile counted more than 1,200 industries inside the estate, over 600 of them small and medium chemical units. No credible count has been published since, so treat that number as a decade-old measure of scale rather than a current figure.
The chemistry is broad: dye intermediates and pigments form the largest group, alongside agrochemical technicals and intermediates, pharmaceutical intermediates and bulk drugs, and a chlor-alkali and bulk inorganic base that supplies the rest. That mix is why an enquiry for glass-lined batch work, hydrogenation, chlorination or a dye intermediate usually reaches Ankleshwar first.
The estate sits on the Delhi–Mumbai highway with the Western Railway main line alongside and Surat about 70 kilometres away, so drum, tanker and container movement is routine. Piped natural gas is the normal thermal fuel across the estate rather than coal or furnace oil, which matters if your product cannot tolerate a dirty steam supply.
What to check before you send an enquiry
The questions our desk puts to a unit before it qualifies an enquiry for Ankleshwar. A listing answers most of them; the trial batch answers the rest.
- Consent to operate that names your process and hazard classes. In Ankleshwar this is not a formality: the estate is a CPCB critically polluted area, and the 2016 order lifting the expansion moratorium requires that a new project, an expansion or a change in product mix line up with the approved action plan for the area.
- Membership of the effluent chain and the discharge limits that come with it. Small and medium units treat through Enviro Technology Ltd, and the estate’s final effluent goes to Narmada Clean Tech and out through a pipeline of roughly 55 kilometres to a deep-sea outfall at Kantiyajal. A plant outside that chain has to explain where its effluent goes.
- Hazardous waste and incineration route. BEIL Infrastructure operates a secured landfill on the estate that has run since 1997 and common incineration since 2004. Ask for manifests rather than an assurance.
- Vessel list by material of construction and working volume, with the utilities attached to each: chilled brine, hot oil, vacuum and the scrubber serving the bay your batch would run in.
- Export handling if the product ships out, including experience with Dahej and Hazira and the documentation the plant prepares itself rather than subcontracts.
Nearby clusters and what runs here
Ankleshwar, Panoli and Jhagadia work as one effluent region, sharing the Narmada Clean Tech final treatment plant and the Kantiyajal sea outfall, so a campaign can often move between them without changing the compliance picture. Dahej is about an hour away on the coast for port-linked work, and Vapi lies south on the same corridor. Batch reaction, hydrogenation, chlorination, filtration and drying are all well represented.
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Common questions
- Is there still a moratorium on new projects in Ankleshwar?
- The environmental-clearance moratorium imposed in 2010 was lifted in November 2016, but with conditions that still apply. Any new project, expansion or change in product mix has to align with the approved action plan for the critically polluted area, and clearances are appraised with extra scrutiny. In practice that means a toll campaign introducing a product a site has never made is a regulated event, not a scheduling decision, so ask early.
- Why does Ankleshwar’s pollution status matter to a toll manufacturing buyer?
- Because it changes what a plant can agree to and how quickly. Ankleshwar scored 80.21 on the CPCB environmental pollution index in 2018, which keeps it in the critically polluted category. That status attaches conditions to product-mix changes and expansions, so a plant may have the right reactor and still not be able to take your molecule this quarter.
- What effluent and waste infrastructure does the estate have?
- Small and medium units treat effluent at Enviro Technology Ltd, and the estate’s final effluent passes through Narmada Clean Tech to a deep-sea outfall at Kantiyajal via a pipeline of roughly 55 kilometres. Hazardous waste goes to BEIL Infrastructure on the estate, which has run a secured landfill since 1997 and common incineration since 2004.
- How far is Ankleshwar from a port?
- Dahej and Hazira are the working ports for the estate, both within about an hour to an hour and a half by road, and the Delhi–Mumbai highway and the Western Railway main line run alongside the estate. Confirm the exact routing with the plant, since drum, tanker and container traffic take different roads out.
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