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Industry Risk Profiles - June 19, 2026 - 11 min read
The Cabinet's Rs 6,853 crore Viability Gap Funding for the first 1,000 MW of offshore wind, split between Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, creates a placement class India has never written before. This is the construction-phase, DSU and serial-defect view brokers need before the SECI tenders close.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Industry Risk Profiles - June 18, 2026 - 10 min read
India's first 40 GWh cell gigafactories are entering operations in 2026 with no domestic loss history, concentrating first-of-a-kind values in a few sites. This post sets out the formation-room fire, electrolyte and NMP solvent, and dry-room exposures that drive the property-plus-business-interruption placement and the questions reinsurers will actually ask.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Industry Risk Profiles - June 18, 2026 - 8 min read
After anti-dumping duties on imported solar and flat glass, Indian manufacturers including Borosil Renewables and HNG Float Glass are adding furnace capacity through 2026. This risk profile sets out the tank-furnace, regenerator, molten-tin-bath, hydrogen-atmosphere, annealing-lehr and furnace-campaign exposures of a float and solar glass line, why a frozen or breached furnace is the maximum loss, and the engineering, property, downtime and erection cover an operator should carry.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Industry Risk Profiles - June 16, 2026 - 8 min read
With domestic sponge iron trading at a cost advantage to imported scrap, India's coal-based DRI sector is running hard and expanding through 2026. This risk profile sets out the rotary-kiln accretion, char-and-coal-dust, hot-DRI self-heating and induction-furnace molten-metal exposures of an integrated sponge-iron-to-steel plant, the role of the waste-heat-recovery boiler, and the engineering, property, downtime and liability cover an operator running the SL/RN coal-reduction route should carry.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Industry Risk Profiles - June 15, 2026 - 7 min read
A wave of new large-scale paint capacity, led by Birla Opus and Grasim's greenfield plants, has reshaped India's paint manufacturing base by 2026. This risk profile sets out the flammable-solvent, resin-reactor and high-value-stock exposures of a modern decorative paint plant and the fire, machinery, business-interruption and liability cover an operator should carry.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Industry Risk Profiles - June 15, 2026 - 14 min read
India's Ethanol Blending Programme has driven a wave of molasses and cane-juice distillery capacity attached to sugar mills, and these plants combine large volumes of flammable ethanol, high-pressure bagasse co-generation boilers, continuous process risk and a heavy spent-wash effluent burden. This post profiles the fire and explosion hazard, the boiler and co-gen exposure, the property, machinery-breakdown and business-interruption programme, and above all the spent-wash, zero-liquid-discharge and environmental liability that defines a molasses distillery.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Industry Risk Profiles - June 13, 2026 - 7 min read
As India pushes to end urea imports, large ammonia-urea complexes, including the coal-gasification project at Talcher and a new brownfield complex in Assam, are moving through construction and commissioning. This risk profile sets out the construction, ammonia, high-pressure-synthesis and business-interruption exposures of a fertiliser plant and the erection-all-risks, property, machinery and liability cover the project and the operating asset each require.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Industry Risk Profiles - June 11, 2026 - 11 min read
The Morbi ceramic cluster in Gujarat is the world's second-largest, packing hundreds of tile, sanitaryware and ceramic-ware units into a dense industrial belt fired by piped natural gas. The risk profile combines gas-fired kiln and spray-dryer fire and machinery breakdown, an unusual property accumulation and aggregation problem from the tight clustering, a business-interruption dependency on city-gas supply, and an export product-liability and anti-dumping and carbon-border tail.
By Tarun Kumar Singh
Industry Risk Profiles - June 11, 2026 - 9 min read
India's ethanol blending push has built a large grain-distillery fleet that by 2026 runs with surplus capacity even as the physical risk stays acute. This profile maps the combustible-dust, DDGS-dryer, fermentation CO2 and low-flash distillation hazards, and the cover a serious operator should carry.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Industry Risk Profiles - June 11, 2026 - 12 min read
Multiplex and cinema-chain operators in India carry crowd and fire-exit liability, dense fire and electrical loads, and a business-interruption exposure tied to content pipelines and, for mall-located screens, to landlord closure. This piece profiles the risk and how an operator structures its insurance programme.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Industry Risk Profiles - June 10, 2026 - 14 min read
Amusement and water park operators in India carry an unusual concentration of public-liability exposure, from ride accidents and water-park drownings to crowd crush at peak, layered on ride machinery breakdown, fire, food safety and seasonal business interruption. This piece profiles the risk and how an operator should build its programme.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Industry Risk Profiles - June 9, 2026 - 11 min read
Tyre plants combine an extreme combustible fire load of rubber, carbon black and process oils with high-temperature Banbury mixers and curing presses, producing some of the highest probable and maximum foreseeable loss single risks in Indian property underwriting. The risk profile spans fire and explosion property, machinery breakdown, a global product-liability and recall tail on exports, and a long business-interruption recovery, all under EV-driven demand growth.
By Tarun Kumar Singh
Industry Risk Profiles - June 8, 2026 - 14 min read
Edible oil refineries and solvent extraction plants run on hexane, a highly volatile, flammable solvent whose vapour, combined with hot processing, dust, boilers and vast stored stocks of oil and oilseed, makes the sector one of the more severe fire and explosion exposures in Indian process industry. The risk profile spans property and machinery breakdown, single-line business interruption tied to oilseed seasonality, stock and transit, liability, and an underwriting picture driven by hexane control and fire protection.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Industry Risk Profiles - June 8, 2026 - 14 min read
India's first operational semiconductor facilities of the current cycle are assembly, test, marking and packaging plants built under the India Semiconductor Mission, and their operational-phase risk is different from the construction-phase EAR that has dominated the conversation so far. Cleanroom fire driven by combustible chemicals and hazardous gases, high-value equipment machinery breakdown, contamination and yield-loss business interruption, and the marine transit of fragile, high-value tools all need underwriting that conventional manufacturing templates handle poorly. This post sets out the operational-phase exposures and how the programme should be built.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Industry Risk Profiles - June 7, 2026 - 11 min read
Leather tanneries in the Kanpur, Ranipet, Ambur and Kolkata clusters run on chromium and a stream of hazardous chemicals, discharge effluent through shared common treatment plants, and operate under intense National Green Tribunal and pollution-control-board scrutiny. The risk profile is dominated by environmental and pollution liability, business interruption from regulatory closure, chemical fire and worker health exposure, all sharpened by export-cluster ESG and carbon-border pressure.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Industry Risk Profiles - June 6, 2026 - 14 min read
Primary aluminium smelters and non-ferrous metal works combine an electrolytic pot-line that runs continuously for years, a cast house handling molten metal, a captive power station the whole plant depends on, and property values that turn a single site into a jumbo risk no Indian insurer can hold alone. This risk profile works through the pot-line fire and freeze exposure, the molten-metal and cast-house explosion scenario, captive-power business interruption, machinery breakdown, and the extreme PML and reinsurance that drive the placement.
By Tarun Kumar Singh
Industry Risk Profiles - June 6, 2026 - 10 min read
Diagnostic and pathology lab chains carry a risk profile unlike a hospital or a clinic, dominated by professional liability for diagnostic error, patient-data exposure across a digital network, and the concentration risk of a hub-and-spoke processing model. This guide maps the exposures of a multi-location lab chain in India and the insurance program that fits them.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Industry Risk Profiles - June 6, 2026 - 13 min read
Alang-Sosiya is the world's largest ship-recycling location, and its risk profile is among the most demanding in Indian commercial insurance. This post profiles the ship-breaking yard under the regulatory frame of the Recycling of Ships Act 2019 and the Hong Kong Convention now in force, covering hot-work fire and explosion, asbestos and hazardous materials, falls and heavy-lift hazards, oil pollution of the inter-tidal zone, worker and employer liability, property and plant exposure, and the underwriting and loss-prevention picture.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Industry Risk Profiles - June 5, 2026 - 11 min read
City Gas Distribution operators run CNG dispensing stations and buried steel and polyethylene pipeline networks delivering piped gas to homes, commerce and industry, regulated by PNGRB and PESO. The risk profile combines station fire and explosion, pipeline third-party damage and rupture, a heavy public and third-party liability load, business interruption tied to a single supply network, and an accumulation problem as the 2026 rollout densifies networks across the country.
By Tarun Kumar Singh
Industry Risk Profiles - June 4, 2026 - 12 min read
Auto-ancillary foundries and forging plants in the Pune, Chennai, Rajkot and Gurgaon belts combine molten-metal handling, induction and cupola furnaces, metal and sand dust, heavy presses and a safety-critical product liability tail, all feeding original-equipment makers on tight just-in-time schedules. The risk profile spans property and machinery breakdown, employer's liability for a hot and heavy workforce, product liability and recall on castings and forgings, and a contingent business-interruption link into the OEM line.
By Tarun Kumar Singh
Industry Risk Profiles - June 4, 2026 - 13 min read
Dark stores and micro-fulfilment centres powering 10-minute grocery delivery are scaling faster than their risk controls. This post profiles the risk of the quick-commerce dark store: fire from dense stock and on-site EV battery charging, stock and burglary exposure, public and product liability including food safety and delivery-rider injury, fleet and rider risk, business interruption, and shrinkage and internal fraud, with the underwriting concerns and the package programme a fast-scaling operator should build.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Industry Risk Profiles - June 1, 2026 - 23 min read
India's fast-scaling veterinary clinic chains carry distinct underwriting exposure across veterinary professional indemnity, animal custody, premises liability and pet-product recall. This is the 2026 risk profile and broker playbook for the segment.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Industry Risk Profiles - May 30, 2026 - 26 min read
Indian CROs serving global pharma sponsors face a layered exposure stack covering clinical trial liability under New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules 2019, product liability transferred from sponsor contracts, professional indemnity and intellectual property risk. This 2026 deep-dive maps insurer panel, CDSCO compliance and programme design for Syngene, Aragen, Sai Life, Veeda and Lambda grade CROs.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Industry Risk Profiles - May 29, 2026 - 18 min read
How insurance responsibility splits between an Indian colocation operator and its tenant in 2026. The post maps who pays for which loss, the master-services-agreement clauses that decide it (indemnity, additional insured, subrogation waiver, certificate of insurance), SLA service-credit pass-through, the customer-equipment versus operator-property boundary, DPDP Act data liability allocation, and a broker playbook for both sides.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
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