Balrampur Chini Mills Ltd has secured its first institutional order from the Lucknow Cantonment Board to supply compostable bioplastic items through its PLA vertical, Balrampur Bioyug. The order covers renewable, bio-based products for institutional use. The company, headquartered in Kolkata, has diversified into bioplastic production and is building a PLA manufacturing plant at Kumbhi in Uttar Pradesh. The development aligns with a company strategy to expand beyond sugar operations.

The order includes compostable garbage bags in two sizes, 300 millilitre PLA bottles, three-dimensional printed PLA compostable pens and PLA folders, all made from renewable polylactic acid, a material the company describes as 100 per cent compostable with a low carbon footprint and no microplastics. The items are intended for operational categories within the cantonment and signal institutional adoption of biopolymer solutions.

The PLA plant at Kumbhi will have an annual capacity of 80,000 tonne (t) and is expected to be operational in October. Balrampur Chini said the plant will support domestic institutional demand and underpin Balrampur Bioyug. The company is one of India's largest integrated sugar producers with 10 sugar factories in Uttar Pradesh and an aggregate sugarcane crushing capacity of 80,000 t per day. Its operations also include a distillery with capacity of 1,050 kilolitre per day and co-generation facilities of 175.7 megawatt (MW).

Company executives said the contract reflects institutional trust in India's emerging biopolymer capabilities and indicates a shift from fossil-based materials to bio-based alternatives within institutional systems. The move responds to growing concern about single-use plastics and microplastic contamination and forms part of the firm's sustainability agenda. The Lucknow Cantonment covers 6,760 acres and is administered by a statutory cantonment board under the Director General of Defence Estates in the Ministry of Defence. The order represents an initial large-scale deployment of compostable PLA products in a government-administered institution.