Projection of production, capacity & export of chemicals for 2019-2025

	*Actual Values*								*forecast values*
GROUP	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	*2019-20*	*2020-21*	*2021-22*	*2022-23*	*2023-24*	*2024-25*
*Period*	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
1. Alkali Chemicals
Capacity	8160	8075	8075	8214	8422	8822	9274	9422	9627	9885	10213	10488	10768	11005
Production	6478	6487	6481	6625	6802	7009	7631	8043	8481	8904	9261	9667	10149	10576
Capacity Utilisation (%)	79	80	80	81	81	79	82	85	88	90	91	92	94	96
Imports	658	995	874	1134	1118	1121	1194	1049	1201	1268	1221	1272	1303	1334
Exports	345	145	164	74	107	154	273	239	240	271	300	343	366	381
2. Inorganic Chemicals
Capacity	1235	1238	1228	1259	1316	1313	1315	1300	1344	1359	1373	1380	1391	1407
Production	895	891	906	944	1002	1053	1058	1064	1096	1141	1170	1199	1216	1243
Capacity Utilisation (%)	72	72	74	75	76	80	81	82	82	84	85	87	87	88
Imports	479	689	874	912	1010	1010	1229	1580	1520	1669	1801	1971	2145	2274
Exports	327	163	167	164	157	378	173	177	264	259	263	248	305	301
3. Organic Chemicals
Capacity	2513	2409	2463	2537	2580	2529	2535	2575	2591	2613	2624	2632	2646	2669
Production	1640	1686	1792	1619	1589	1638	1799	1884	1809	1846	1874	1968	2010	2050
Capacity Utilisation (%)	65	70	73	64	62	65	71	73	70	71	71	75	76	77
Imports	2182	2487	2496	2886	3143	3170	3407	3645	3814	4042	4242	4423	4621	4830
Exports	315	407	335	241	232	190	205	233	160	136	122	110	91	73
4. Pesticides (Tech.)
Capacity	301	283	297	302	307	322	325	324	332	340	345	351	356	361
Production	156	155	179	186	188	214	213	217	242	245	247	273	274	277
Capacity Utilisation (%)	52	55	60	62	61	66	65	67	73	72	72	78	77	77
Imports$	30	30	37	41	34	43	44	49	51	52	55	60	63	65
Exports$	154	180	207	230	267	342	358	405	438	479	524	563	602	640
5. Dyes & Pigments
Capacity	412	422	434	460	456	471	478	492	499	511	517	531	538	551
Production	241	240	284	285	304	320	367	382	411	422	458	482	514	526
Capacity Utilisation (%)	58	57	65	62	67	68	77	78	82	83	89	91	96	96
Imports	48	52	52	52	55	56	63	56	61	62	65	64	66	65
Exports	288	326	347	353	376	419	486	525	559	595	634	684	726	767
Total Major Chemicals (1 to 5)
Capacity	12621	12427	12496	12772	13082	13456	13927	14112	14394	14707	15072	15382	15698	15994
Production	9409	9459	9643	9660	9884	10234	11069	11589	12040	12557	13011	13589	14162	14672
Capacity Utilisation (%)	75	76	77	76	76	76	79	82	84	85	86	88	90	92
Imports	3397	4253	4333	5025	5360	5400	5937	6379	6647	7094	7384	7790	8198	8568
Exports	1429	1220	1221	1061	1138	1484	1496	1579	1662	1739	1843	1948	2091	2162

Note : 1.Production and Installed Capacity data based on MPR received from large and medium scale units only.

2. Data Source in respect of imports and exports is DGCIS,Kolkata, M/O Commerce and Industry. Note : $ Import and Export includes both technical and formulations.