India: India's FACT-RCF Building Products Ltd hopes that sales of gypsum-based building products will help it to reach US$50.8m in revenue in the current fiscal year.
The company, which is a joint venture between Kerala-based Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore and Mumbai's Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers, has received an encouraging response from users of gypsum products. End users have already purchased around 23,226m2 of products, according to Jaiveer Srivastava, chairman and managing director of FACT-RCF.
The company has set up a 1400000m2/yr capacity plant in Kochi, Kerala at an investment of US$25.4m. Srivastava described the gypsum-based building products as a solution to address the issues connected with natural resource constraints in the building sector at a time when the availability of water, sand and labour are becoming scarce.
