RENOLIT’s Indian Expansion Supports Growing Demand for Geomembranes
Plastics processor RENOLIT is expanding in India and building a new plant in Pune. The symbolic groundbreaking ceremony took place on April 15, 2025. From April 2026, the family-owned company plans to produce geomembranes for civil engineering projects in the Asia-Pacific market.
“India is now the most populous country on earth and, with growth of over six percent, the Indian economy is the fastest growing major economy in the world,” says Karsten Jänicke, CEO of RENOLIT. “With the new plant, we are sending a clear signal for our long-term growth strategy in Asia. The factory strengthens our market position and our ability to deliver in the extremely dynamic Indian market.”
They had their own production facility in Pune since 2010. The city is located 150 kilometers southeast of Mumbai in the state of Maharashtra in western India. The Composites Market Unit successfully manufactures the product RENOLIT WOOD-STOCK here, a wood-plastic composite material with various polymer and natural raw materials for the automotive and construction industries. The company is now building a second plant on the site.
A safe and sustainable production facility for geomembranes is being built on a total area of 3,190 square meters. The new factory is to be built in just 12 months. Production is scheduled to start as early as April 2026. Around 30 employees will then be able to produce the first geomembranes using a design-built extrusion process. The plant is designed for a production annual volume of 6,000 tons of geomembrane.
Cooperation with experts for hydraulic structures
The investment is the first step in their long-term growth strategy in India. To this end, the plastics processor has entered into a collaboration with Carpi, a Swiss company specializing in the waterproofing of hydraulic structures.
Carpi and RENOLIT are enabling one of the largest energy transition programs in the world with their geomembranes. “We are pleased to be able to make an important contribution to this program and to achieving India’s climate targets by providing our products,” says Nicolas de Walque, Sales and Business Development Director of the Market Unit Roof & Water Care.
The Indian government is focusing on integrated renewable energy storage projects (IREP) with hydro, solar, wind and pumped storage components. Large quantities of waterproof geomembranes are required for pumped storage. With such IREP projects, India aims to achieve its goal of being completely climate-neutral by 2070.
“We can produce high-quality geomembranes on site in our new factory. This is a real competitive advantage. With our new production facility, we are close to our Indian customers and can incorporate their specific requirements into our products,” explains Rahul Chivate, General Manager of RENOLIT India Pvt. Ltd.
Hindu tradition brings good fortune
They have now performed the symbolic ground-breaking ceremony for the new factory in Pune. Rahul Chivate and Alok Marwaha, Managing Director of RENOLIT India Pvt. Ltd., welcomed guests from local business and people from public life as well as a delegation from RENOLIT to the opening ceremony. Among them were Karsten Jänicke, CEO, Renaat Demeulemeester, General Manager Market Unit Roof & Water Care, Nicolas de Walque, Sales & Business Development Director of the Market Unit Roof and Water Care, Vikram Gandhi, General Manager of APPL GOR Plastics India Pvt. Ltd., Anurag Jain, Director APPL Industries, and Vinayagam Subramanian, Director Carpi India Pvt. Ltd. Also present were Vinit Dungarwal, Founder, and R.S. Inamdar, Director, from the construction company AMs, who are responsible for the project.
The festive highlight was a traditional Ganesha ceremony. In Hinduism, Ganesha is the Hindu elephant god, the god of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune, who is worshipped before new business endeavours in order to overcome all spiritual and materialistic obstacles with perseverance.
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