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- I G Petrochemicals Limited manufactures and sells organic chemicals, primarily serving the plastics, paints, coatings, and polyester resins industries in India and internationally. The company produces Phthalic Anhydride (PAN), its flagship product used in plasticizers for PVC products including shoe soles, cables, pipes, hoses, leather cloth, and packaging films, as well as alkyd resins for paints, unsaturated polyester resins for building materials, textiles, and printing inks; Maleic Anhydride (MA), applied in unsaturated polyester resins, spandex elastics, lubricating oil additives, personal care products, detergents, insecticides, fungicides, and water treatment; Benzoic Acid (BA), utilized in perfumes, paints, dyes, plastics, and unsaturated polyester resins; and Diethyl Phthalate (DEP), functioning as a plasticizer in consumer goods, cosmetics, fragrances, food and pharmaceutical packaging, medical tubing, alcohol denaturant, incense sticks, perfumes, varnishes, paints, rocket propellants, insecticides, mosquito repellents, and textile processing. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Mumbai, India, with manufacturing facilities at MIDC Taloja in Raigad District, Maharashtra, the company operates as India's largest PAN producer with over 50% domestic market share and approximately 500 employees. Recent developments include the appointment of Shri Sanjoy Datta as Non-Executive Independent Director for five years in November 2025, extension of its new plasticizer plant completion to March 2026 to enter downstream PAN products, and approval of up to Rs 100 crore investment in its wholly-owned subsidiary IG Biofuels Limited for developing compressed biogas production plants, potentially with joint venture partners, announced in November 2025.