About Us

To the backdrop of the Second World war; Excel is born in a cowshed in then remote suburb of Jogeshwari, the brainchild of the resolute master chemist C. C Shroff. The fledgling company soon gained a reputation of being able to manufacturing even the most complex chemicals on demand and at short notice.

In a significant step for the Swadeshi chemical industry, Excel supplied the German giant Bayer’s India arm with very critical raw inputs on an emergency basis. The raw input was previously not manufactured in India and could only be imported. Excel’s miracle maker C.C. Shroff researched and developed the process to manufacturing them indigenously in record time, making Bayer’s manager a complete fan of ‘Papas’ talents.

StanVac’s Trombay refinery ran short of a critical input that was not available in India previously. The company desperately turned to C.C. for help in four short days ‘Papa’ had developed the process for and produced enough of the chemical for StanVac’s requirement. In addition he charged no more than the regular import rates for the input, saying “Industry and business do not survive on profit alone. They need the goodwill of people more than profit.”

The winning spree begins, Excel Industries Limited wins the Sir P.C. Ray award for developing products and processes indigenously.

Excel goes public, with our first public issue of Rs. 50 lakh, that was heavily oversubscribed within 3 days of hitting the market such was the investor confidence in our abilities.

Excel Commissions India's first indigenous phosphorus plants....

Excel’s plant at Roha is inaugurated. It was our fourth plant and our largest till date. There were a myriad of challenges technical, logistical, local but C. C. brothers Govindjibhai and Kantisen who led the company now, motivated the entire company to rise to each one of them.

Excel enters into the Environmental Biotechnology field with Celrich, an in-house developed biological treatment for urban and rural waste. Celrich offers a safe and effective means of turning all kinds of organic wastes into highly effective manure. Instead of monetizing this technology we have decided to franchise it and allows small scale entrepreneurs to tackle India’s urban waste challenges.

We complete our golden jubilee as a successful chemical company. We had dozens of awards for quality and innovation under our belt and our new age plants online and stabilized and growing fast.

We become ISO 9002 certified from BIS, a major achievement and dream come true for the founders.

A major US based producer approves Excel for supply of a key polycarbonate additive after a rigorous audit to verify and confirm Excel’s capabilities as well as compliance to their stringent EHS standards.

Excel develops a co-catalyst for a major polyolefins producer and goes on to become a major supplier of this co-catalyst to the polyolefins producer.

A South Africa Based Conglomerate approaches Excel with a proposal..

The agri-inputs division of Excel Industries Limited is de-merged into a separate entity “Excel Crop Care Limited”. The Chemicals and Environment & Bio-tech businesses retained with Excel Industries Limited.

Excel develops a specialty monomer for a major US based polycarbonate manufacturer who required it for production of polycarbonate resins with enhanced functional properties for high end applications. The process R & D and approval of the product with the customer completed in record time. In due course of time, Excel established its presence as a major supplier of this monomer to the client.

Roha Unit of Excel Industries Limited wins...

Excel Industries Limited wins the National Energy Conservation Award (2nd Prize) in chemicals sector from Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Ministry of Power, Government of India and Award for Excellence in Energy Conservation and Management in chemicals sector (2nd Prize) from Maharashtra Energy Development Agency, Government of Maharashtra.

Excel awarded the SUPREME award and certificate of excellence for outstanding performance as a supplier by Bayer Crop Science

Environment and Biotech Division of Excel bags an order for technology licensing and Project Management Consultancy services for setting up a 350 TPD capacity solid waste processing plant in Mauritius

Inauguration of Pharma facility at Lote for production of advanced pharma intermediates and APIs.

ICC (Indian Chemical Council) Lifetime Achievement Award for Mr. Ashwin Shroff (Chairman, Excel Industries Ltd.)

Ravi Shroff becomes Executive Director

MobiTrash Recycle Ventures Pvt. Ltd. established Services commence in Pune. Unique business model to treat household garbage at the doorstep with organic waste converter loaded in mobile van.

Excel Crop Care was sold to Sumitomo Chemicals.
Obtained WHO, GMP certificate for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients.

Hrishit Shroff joins as president, ENBT Business and Corporate service.

Ashwin Shroff receives lifetime achievement award from CHEMEXCIL.

Vizag Site Acquisition

Received Environmental
Clearance for expansion at Lote

Received Environmental
Clearance for expansion at Roha

Set up PCL3 plant at Lote