Hindustan Sanitaryware & Industries (HSIL) intends to set up three new plants in Gujarat at an investment of Rs 500 crore in the next seven years. HSIL will set up a plant each in Jhagadia for producing sanitaryware, tiles and bathroom fittings in three phases.

In Phase I, the company plans to invest Rs 125 crore to set up a sanitaryware facility that will have an initial annual capacity of 1.2 million pieces. It will be expanded to two million pieces in the second phase at an investment of Rs 150-175 crore, along with setting up a tiles manufacturing unit. In Phase III, it plans to pump in around Rs 200 crore for the expansion of tiles plant and to set up a bathroom fittings facility. The tiles facility is to have an initial capacity to produce 10,000 mtrs of tiles per day which will later be expanded to 20,000 mtrs per day. Meanwhile, the faucet plant will have an initial installed capacity of three million pieces.