 Vadodara's Industrial Growth
Vadodara City runs through the golden corridor, from Ahmedabad to Vapi, and is one of India's foremost industrial centres with dominant groups of chemicals and pharmaceuticals, cotton textiles and machine tools.The city witnessed a sudden spurt in industrial activity with the establishment of the Gujarat refinery in 1962.Various large-scale industries such as Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals (GSFC), Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited (IPCL) and Gujarat Alkalis and Chemicals Limited (GACL) have come up in the vicinity of the Gujarat Refinery.