Bharuch: Union Jal Shakti Minister and Gujarat BJP chief C.R. Patil today laid the foundation stone for Borosil Renewables’ upcoming 600 Tons Per Day (TPD) solar glass manufacturing facility at its Bharuch site. This expansion will elevate Borosil’s total Indian solar glass production capacity from 1,000 TPD to 1,600 TPD (10.5 GW). The company already has 350 TPD capacity in its German subsidiary, GMB Glasmanufaktur Brandenburg, 

The company in a note said the new facility will integrate the latest global technologies in solar glass manufacturing and will help meet India’s rapidly increasing demand for solar glass and reduce imports and build resilience in supply chain of this strategically important industry.

A member of the Borosil Group, with over six decades of expertise in specialty glass manufacturing, Borosil Renewables Ltd. is India’s first and largest producer of low irontextured solar glass. Its applications span photovoltaic modules, flat-plate collectors, and greenhouses. Since commissioning its first Solar Glass facility in Bharuch, Gujarat, in January 2010, the company has set benchmarks in the industry including the world’s first antimony-free solar glass line and pioneering fully tempered 2mm thick solar glass.

 Borosil supplies to nearly all of India’s major solar panel manufacturers and exports to Europe, Turkey, the Americas, and the MENA, playing a vital role in the global clean energy transition.

Patil also inaugurated a groundwater recharge initiative in Bharuch district at the premises of Borosil Renewables Ltd., where several recharge wells have been installed.  DeshGujarat