- CEO
- Gouthamchand Sohanlal Chowdhary
- Full Time Employees
- 203
- Sector
- Consumer non-durables
- Industry
- Food: major diversified
- Address
- Sanstar House Ahmedabad GU India 380007
- IPO Date
- Jul 26, 2024
- Business
- Sanstar Ltd Sanstar Limited (SANSTAR.NS) manufactures plant-based specialty products and ingredient solutions derived from maize for food, animal nutrition, pharmaceutical, paper, industrial, and cosmetics applications; core products include native maize starch, liquid glucose, maltodextrin powder, dextrose monohydrate, high maltose corn syrup, modified starches, sorbitol, adhesives, and co-products such as corn gluten meal, corn gluten feed, corn germs, corn fiber, corn steep liquor, and maize gluten meal. The company, originally incorporated as Continental Papers Limited in 1982 and renamed Sanstar Limited in 2012, maintains headquarters in Ahmedabad, India, with manufacturing facilities in Dhule, Maharashtra, and Kutch, Gujarat, offering a total installed capacity of 1,100 metric tons per day across 10.68 million square feet. Sanstar operates as India's third-largest producer of maize-based specialty products, exporting to 49 countries in Southeast Asia, Latin America, Australia, the US, Canada, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Oceania while serving 22 states domestically. Recent developments encompass a 2024 initial public offering raising approximately INR 425-500 crore to fund capacity expansion at the Dhule facility by 1,000 tons per day for maize starch, liquid glucose, dextrose monohydrate, and dextrose anhydrous, slated for commercial commencement in fiscal 2026; a merger of erstwhile Sanstar Biopolymers Limited approved by NCLT Ahmedabad in November 2023 transferring assets and liabilities; USFDA registration for the Kutch facility in August 2023 valid through December 2024; and establishment of a research and development center.