We recently met Sanjay Tibrewala, Executive Director of Fineotex Chemicals, to understand the overall nuances, salient characteristics of the speciality chemical space in the textile industry, Fineotex' s market position and prospects, going forward. Fineotex has 22,000 tonne capacity across two facilities in India (15,500 tonne) and Malaysia (6,500 tonne). It manufactures over 400 different products with established presence across the entire textile value chain ranging from pre-treatment, dying, printing and finishing processes thereby making it a one-stop shop...

Fineotex Chemicals Ltd. (FCL) is head quartered in Mumbai and involved in the manufacturing specialty chemicals and enzymes. The company has founded in 1979 by Mr. Surendra Kumar Tibrewala and has manufacturing facilities at Navi Mumbai and Malaysia with combined manufacturing capacity of 22,000 MT/pa. The Company manufactures chemicals for the entire value chain for the textile industry including pretreatment, dyeing, printing and finishing process. The company also manufactures other chemicals for various industries like agro, adhesives, construction, water treatment etc. It has more...

Decent Performance under Macroeconomic Pressure; Business Traction to Continue: Fineotex Chemical recorded decent set of result as consolidated sales grew by 1.1% YoY (largely in line) to Rs. 298 Mn in Q3FY17 as against ofRs. 294 Mn in Q3FY16. In such a challenging business environment, the consolidated sales volume surged by ~ 10.0% YoY on the back of high demand from end users and increased client portfolio during the period.

H1FY17 Performance in-line amidst Persisting Uncertainty: The companys consolidated revenue in H1FY17 has grown by 3.8% to Rs. 590 Mn as against Rs. 568 Mn in H1FY16. However, it has registered mild de-growth by -0.8% QoQ basis wherein revenue de-grew to Rs. 294 Mn from Rs. 296 Mn. The mildde-growth has been on account of currency exchange rate fluctuations loss occurred during the aforesaid quarters and lower demand for high value addedproducts due to seasonal effect.

Long Term Strategic Growth Drivers in Place: Increased focus on specialty chemical to boost operating margin - FineotexChemical Limited (FCl) has posted consolidated revenue growth at CAGR of 8.0% over the period of FY12-16. EBITDA recorded significant growth at CAGR of 37.3%during same period whereas EBITDA margin has also grown by 819bps YoY to 24.7% in FY16 due to overall decline in raw material cost by 618 bps YoY. PAT Marginhas grown by 301 bps YoY in FY16.