Aided by the specialty chemicals business - whose revenues surged by an eye-popping 56.6% in Q1 and EBIT by gravity-defying 84.2% - Aarti Industries posted 40.5% growth in overall sales and 98.4% rise in post tax earnings on yoy basis. Despite sharp increase in raw material prices, freight and fuel prices, operating profit advanced by 72.4% to Rs 313.81 crs, thus pulling up OPMs to 23.8% from 19.4% (21.5% in Q4); finance costs though rose sharply not least due to M2M impact on unhedged ECBs. Much of the business growth last quarter was aided...