Calderys targets East, Southeast Asia exports from Odisha facility

The Rs 800 crore plant in Khurda district is set to become the world's largest single-site refractory unit, catering to domestic industries and export markets across Asia

Calderys, a global leader in high-temperature industrial solutions, has announced a production roadmap for its new manufacturing facility in Odisha, which was set up with an investment of about ₹800 crore.

 

Spread over 45 acres at Bhuinpur in Khurda district, the plant is designed to house six production lines catering to acidic and basic monolithics and bricks, steel casting fluxes and tap-hole clays, along with modern quality testing units.

 

Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi inaugurated the facility on Wednesday. Strategically located near major industrial clusters, the facility is aimed at servicing India’s iron and steel, cement, aluminium, petrochemical, energy and foundry sectors.

   

The facility’s two lines — acidic monolithics and basic monolithics — deliver high-performance refractory solutions to customers across India. Additional acidic and basic brick lines, steel casting fluxes and tap-hole clay lines are under development and scheduled to become operational later this year. Once fully operational, the facility will be the world’s largest single-site refractory and flux plant.

 

The facility is expected to generate around 350 skilled jobs, along with vocational training initiatives to support local workforce development.

 

Ish Mohan Garg, senior vice-president for Asia Pacific at Calderys, said the project, called CAPES (Calderys Plant in East and South India), has achieved rapid progress, with production already under way in less than two years after groundbreaking.

 

“The facility is being developed as the world’s largest single-site refractory plant, and it will serve the export markets in East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific region,” he said, thanking the Odisha government and local stakeholders in enabling the swift execution of the project.

 

Calderys, headquartered in Paris, specialises in refractory products, steel casting technologies and metallurgical processes. The company has more than 50 plants on five continents, with an employee base of more than 4,500 (excluding contractors).

 

Michel Cornelissen, president and chief executive officer of Calderys, said the facility is a major step in the company’s global growth journey.