1、March 2023India:The next chemicals manufacturing hubAuthorsAvinash Goyal Ayush Gupta Chris Musso Jakob Fischer Marco Moder Nitika Nathani Rupali Jain Sanchay Vaidya Ulrich WeiheIndia:The next chemicals manufacturing hubAcknowledgmentsMcKinsey&Company would like to thank the Indian Chemical Council(I

2、CC)for inviting us to be the knowledge partner for their 16th annual summit on India Chemical Industry Outlook.We are particularly grateful to Bimal L.Goculdas(President,ICC and MD,DMCC Specialty Chemicals),Kamal P.Nanavaty(Chairman of Expert Committee Conference&Exhibition,ICC and President,Relianc

3、e Industries)and Rajen Mariwala(Vice President,ICC and MD,Eternis Fine Chemicals).Multiple industry leaders shared their valuable insights,we would like to thank Ravi Kapoor(MD,Heubach Colour),Rajendra Gogri(CMD,Aarti Industries),Kartik Bharatram(Deputy MD,SRF),Suresh Ramachandran(Country Head&Manag

4、ing Director,Arkema India),Pankaj Mehta(President and Strategy Head,Aarti Industries),Vivek Gadre(President,Atul),Raghunadhan A V(Chief General Manager,IOCL)and Soutrik Ganguli(Policy Analyst,Reliance Industries).A special thank you to Sanjoy Bhattacharya and Sothi Selvam Dhandapani(Director General

5、,ICC)for their guidance.Several colleagues around the globe contributed immensely to shaping this report.We are very grateful to Craig Poppleman,Divy Malik,Lalit Naik,and Victor Gujik for their inputs.The report was made possible through the efforts of the McKinsey working team that included Ayush G

6、upta,Kundan Parashar,Nitesh Dutt,Rishi Juthani,Sanchay Vaidya,Vedika Gulati,and Vibhor Agarwal.We also thank Sarath Kumar,Saravanan Mani and Vikas Gujaran from the Visual Aids team for designing the report and Akriti Agrawal,Amrutha Penumudi,Anamika Mukharji,Fatema Nulwala,Raksha Shetty,Rohan Moorth