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Avantika Saraogi’s green bet: From sugar to India’s first PLA bioplastics plant

Joe Mathew
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July 2025
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This story belongs to the Fortune India Magazine July 2025 issue.

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Avantika Saraogi, Executive Director of Balrampur Chini Mills, is spearheading India’s first greenfield PLA bioplastics plant, transforming the sugar major into a biomaterials powerhouse.
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Avantika Saraogi’s green bet: From sugar to India’s first PLA bioplastics plant
Avantika Saraogi, Executive Director of Balrampur Chini Mills Ltd 
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Balrampur Chini Mills Ltd

As a fourth-generation member of the promoter family, Avantika Saraogi, Executive Director of Balrampur Chini Mills Ltd (BCML), was entrusted with the task of identifying a new business stream for the group when she joined the company five-and-a-half years ago.