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."
Karsten Jänicke, Alok Marwaha, Nicolas de Walque, Rahul Chivate, Renaat Demeulemeester, Vikram Gandhi, Vinayagam Subramanian and other invited guests from APPL GOR Plastics India Pvt. Ltd. at the ground-breaking ceremony for the new site
RENOLIT has had its 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 RENOLIT's 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.
