Hindustan Organic Chemicals Ltd Share Price – BSE

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The disruption follows a government directive requiring public sector oil companies to prioritise LPG supply for domestic consumers, which has triggered a force majeure under the existing bulk LPG supply arrangement.

HOCL stated that its available LPG buffer stock will be exhausted by 09 March 2026.

As a result, the company has reduced production at the phenol and cumene plants and temporarily shut down the PRU unit from March 9. Other downstream units may also be shut within two days if supply disruptions persist. The hydrogen peroxide plant will continue operating.

The announcement was made post trading hours yesterday.

Hindustan Organic Chemicals (HOCL) is engaged in the manufacturing of of phenol, acetone, and hydrogen peroxide. The company provides the basic organic chemicals essential for vital industries like resins and laminates, dyes and dyes intermediates, drugs and pharmaceuticals, rubber chemicals, paints, pesticides and others. It also produces the versatile engineering plastic polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) through its subsidiary.

The company had reported a consolidated net loss of Rs 3.92 crore in the quarter ended December 2025 as against net loss of Rs 78.99 crore during the previous quarter ended December 2024. Sales declined 10.85% to Rs 147.24 crore in Q3 FY26 as compared with Q3 FY25.

The scrip rose 0.31% to currently trade at Rs 29.10 on the BSE.

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Hindustan Organic Chemicals (HOCL) announced that the Government of India has directed that all Public Sector Oil manufacturing companies to ensure that LPG procured or marketed by Public Sector Companies is supplied exclusively to domestic LPG consumers.

In view of this, BPCL being the bulk LPG supplier of HOCL informed that a force majeure event has occurred which is affecting BPCL ability to supply bulk LPG as per the prevailing sale agreement.

 In response, HOCL has informed to BPCL that in the event of disruption in LPG supply the plant may have to shut down resulting in production loss and incurring plant restart related expenditure.

The company said, HOCL, Kochi unit in the state of Kerala (Phenol Complex) is the only manufacturing unit of the company which is engaged in manufacturing of Phenol, Acetone, Hydrogen Peroxide. The buffer stock of LPG available with us will be fully utilized by today evening. Due to the disruption in the continuous supply of LPG by BPCL, the production load of the Phenol & Cumene plant has been reduced. Furthermore, due to the continuous disruption of LPG supply the HOCL plant is compelled to temporarily shut down operations of PRU unit today i.e 09.03.2026 and all other down the line units by 2 days. However, the Hydrogen Peroxide plant will continue to operate as usual.

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Net Loss of Hindustan Organic Chemicals reported to Rs 3.92 crore in the quarter ended December 2025 as against net loss of Rs 78.99 crore during the previous quarter ended December 2024. Sales declined 10.85% to Rs 147.24 crore in the quarter ended December 2025 as against Rs 165.16 crore during the previous quarter ended December 2024.

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Hindustan Organic Chemicals will hold a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company on 12 February 2026.

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