-Demand for products like Acetonitrile, DMF, NEP, DMA and TEA elevated as they are intermediates for drugs required for COVID-19 treatment
-Ramp up the production of Acetonitrile to 18-20T per day
-Receive award for export
-Subsidiary performance improved
-Demand for methyl amine increased. Separate plant for Methylamines with installed capacity of 48,000 TPA and 80% of capacity is captively used
-CAPEX of 105 crore completed and expected to commission production of Acetonitrile
-Inventory maintaining for only a month and there wont be any problem
-No change in Amonia price
-Acetonitrile price: 250-280 prices and there has been no major change
DMF:
-India has short supply in this
-Antidumping duty might increase the price of product
-However without antidumping there is increasing demand of product
-Filed for expansion capacity of 30,000 TPA
-DMF prices are already increasing.
-From 60Rs to 90Rs as of now. While with the ADD, price support of 80Rs is expected by management
-Expect to reach 1800-2000 TPA till end of FY 2021
-Breakeven for DMF at price was increased with the increase in RM & end product price
Balaji Specialty:
-Sales 55 cr. Currently in Cash loss, expect from next quarter to have cash profit
-Order book of subsidy is slowly increasing & of small amt. Mainly sales are not upfront.
DMF, Methylamines & other products will be in line commercialized having EC in route
Morpholine
-Demand of Morpholine in export market is increasing
-Sales to China has been made in last quarter
-With current market situation, company can easily compete with global players
-In case of price decrease of RM, mgnt has to decrease price of product as well
Loss in CFL:
-Worth of inventory is 7-8 crores. While there would be loss in sale of inventory
-Land 1.6 crores. Building 6.6 Crores. revaluation will make this 20-25 crores.
Balaji specialty is a new company. Going to big company of specialty would not allow the subsidiary to gain big order because of small balance sheet. Hence acquired
Methylamines is expected to be commercialized till June 2022 with capacity of 48,000 TPA
Squeeze of supply of DMF led to increase in demand of DMF in short term
Month on month growth has been started.
Major customer include Coromandal. However management doesn't want a big order due to fluctuation of RM prices
Business Updates:
• GDS and CMS segment both have contribute well.
• Unit 3 will be commercialized in 2 quarter of FY 2021
• Growth was led by Levofloxacin and Levetiracetam
• CMS business was the key driver for growth. Good progress from CMS
CAPEX:
• Expectation of 90cr this year and 60-70cr is done
• No further updates on CAPEX but there will be need
CMS:
• Growth driven by increase in commercial projects which done well. Baseline project done well
• CMS business could be volatile. Overall growth is positive
• EBIDTA margins improved, significant growth from COVID.
• Non - Covid business is back to pre-covid levels.
COVID test:
• RTPCR tests in Q2 ~ 2.7 Lac
• Antibody tests reported in Q2
• Pathology Volumes increased by 83% in Q2
• Added manpower in the operational end
• In Q2 almost 40% of the business is from Covid
• As the industry open up, there can be more demand of antibody test.
• There would be no complexity in serving the operational aspect of working with open up in the economy
- 2020 has been a year of Reset.
- Recently, economy is going through a gradual phase of recovery.
- Q2 has been as per planned
- 4 major focus 1. Progress made in the focus areas 2. Strengthening of balance sheet 3. Update on growth and business 4. Sustainability and environment
Progress on focus areas.
- Continue to focus on liquidity and equity.
- Debt to equity ratio has come down to 3.1 from 5
- Total borrowing have come down to 30k cr. from 50k cr. in 2 years
- 2k cr. would be received from PAG deal, which will make the company capital surplus
Business Updates:
• 90-180 days economy was closed.
• Headcount was 384000, and reached to 314000 and in Q1 reached to 324000. Headcount now remaining stable.
• Vedang is still partially closed
• Improvement of business from the month of july and september
Cost Reduction: 70 crores of cost has been reduced to 53 crores which will be permanent saving of 17 crores unless increase in sudden cost
Debt Reduction:
Debt reduction 1147 cr and now the gross debt level is 624 crore.
Net debt reduced from 254 to 45 crores debt on qoq basis