Phillips Carbon Black (Phillips) reported strong improvement in EBITDA/tonne (+38% QoQ) to Rs16k/tonne on price hike (Rs 3k/tonne), better product mix and operational efficiencies. Although total volumes at 99k tonnes were slightly below our estimate, its specialty volumes grew to 6k tonnes (2k tonnes in Q1FY18). EBITDA rose 67.9% YoY and 46.7% QoQ to Rs1,659 mn (better than our estimate of Rs1,404 mn). Net profit jumped...