Process Budaun's raw mentha oil into menthol crystals and isolates for the pharma, flavour, and FMCG buyers who currently source these from distant refiners. The edge: the district grows the mint but ships the oil out un-refined.
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Budaun sits in UP's peppermint (mentha) heartland, with a sugarcane-and-mentha agricultural belt that already produces crude mint oil — but that oil leaves the district at commodity prices. This unit captures the mentha-to-menthol gap: a crystallisation and fractionation plant that turns raw mint oil into menthol crystals, de-mentholised oil, and isolates that command far higher prices from pharmaceutical, oral-care, confectionery, and balm manufacturers. It builds directly on the local mentha belt, shortening the farmer-to-refiner chain and keeping margin in the district. What it takes is genuinely technical: freezing-crystallisation and vacuum-distillation know-how, a chemist who can hit purity specs buyers will test against, FSSAI/pharmacopoeia-grade handling, solvent safety, and price-hedging discipline because mentha oil prices swing hard season to season. The honest risk is that volatile feedstock pricing can wipe out a poorly-hedged operator — this is a processing-margin business, not a speculation. Start with menthol crystals on toll-processing contracts before holding inventory on own account.
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Raw 85% · Processed 15%
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