The Board of Directors of the Company at their meeting held today, declared an annual dividend of 20 % i.e. Rs 2/- per equity share.
Sales including excise (Rupees in Crores)
The Company commenced commercial production of its plant at Sarigam. JBF Industries Limited to be world’s largest manufacturer of polyester chips. The plant with a capacity of manufacturing 2, 16,000 TPA (Tonnes per annum) of polyester chips. With this JBF Industries is the world’s largest polyester chip manufacturing company. Located at Sarigam, Gujarat the plant built with an investment of over Rs 170 crores manufactures textile grade polyester chips. The new plant is expected to add and incremental revenue of Rs.800 crores by FY07 to the company’s existing revenue. The expansion was funded by Rs 70 crores Equity and Rs 100 crores Debt/Internal Accruals. Polyester chips has an existing demand of 2, 64,000 Tonnes per annum which is presently being imported. This demand is expected to rise with the growth of the textile and related industries.
Expansions underway to be completed by 2007
The company is expanding its capacity in Silvassa with new additional facility of 90,000 TPA of POY at Silvassa. The new facility is expected to be commissioned by September 2006
International:The Company has gone global with a USD 90 million plant in Emirates in a joint venture with RAKIA (Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority) for setting up a world scale Polyester PET resin packaging in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. The plant, a world class manufacturing facility with a capacity of 900t/day polymerization with a production of 600t/day of SSP chips, and 300t/day Polyester Film will address the three large markets of USA, EU and CHINA. This is the first plant of this size set up by an Indian company in the Emirates.