We visited APL Apollo Tubes’ (APL) Murbad, Maharashtra facility and met with multiple APL distributors. Murbad was Lloyds steel plant, which APL acquired in CY10 for a cash consideration of Rs400mn with a capacity of 90,000te. The same has been ramped up to 0.35mtpa over past seven years, with the introduction of direct forming technology (DFT) and cold rolling and Galva (GP/GI) capacity.