# What carbon data do listed pharma companies ask Selaqui formulation units for?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/selaqui-pharma-units-carbon-data-for-buyers

Usually your Scope 1 and 2 for April to March, and a figure per batch or per thousand tablets for their products. SEBI made value chain reporting voluntary from FY 2025-26, so requests come by choice or contract. TERI's 2015 profile gives the benchmark: 52 units, 8,074 toe a year, 63% of it electricity.

## Selaqui in TERI's profile

- About 52 units, more than 30 small and about 5 large, set up from 2003-04 under the special industrial package for Uttarakhand.
- 32 hold WHO-GMP certification; one has US FDA and one UK MHRA approval. Many export.
- Most buy APIs and do job work for larger pharma companies. Bulk drug making is restricted in the Doon valley.
- About 379 million tablets, 106 million capsules and 11.5 million sachets a year.

## Where your footprint sits

- Electricity, 59.6 million kWh a year for the cluster: HVAC with 20 to 75 TR chillers, air compressors and process machines.
- HSD and LDO, 1,573 kL, and LPG, 1,365 t: mostly 1 tph coil boilers running 8 to 12 hours a day, plus DG sets.
- Condensate from dryers is drained at 85 to 95 °C, about 15 to 20% of the boiler's heat input, in most units.

## Why the request reaches a job-work unit

SEBI's March 2025 circular defines a value chain partner as one making up 2% or more of a listed company's purchases or sales by value, and lets the company stop once it covers 75%. Disclosure is voluntary for the top 250 listed companies from FY 2025-26, with assurance voluntary from FY 2026-27. Nothing in SEBI's rules obliges you to answer, but a supply agreement can, and a customer that chooses to report will want figures for what it buys from you.

## What to send

1. Annual totals by fuel and for grid power, each with the emission factor and its source.
2. A figure per thousand tablets, per batch or per pack for that customer's products, with the allocation basis stated: machine hours, floor area under HVAC or output.
3. What you left out, such as transport or packaging.
4. The bills behind each line, offered for inspection rather than handed over.

## Worked example: the cluster at today's factors

- Electricity: 59.6 million kWh x 0.675 = 40,230 t CO2
- HSD and LDO: 1,573 kL x 2.645 kg per litre = 4,161 t CO2
- LPG: 1,365 t x 2.98 = 4,068 t CO2
- Total 48,459 t, 83% of it electricity, over 496.7 million tablets, capsules and sachets
- Average: 48,459,000 kg / 496,700,000 = about 98 g CO2 per piece, or 98 kg per thousand

TERI's 2015 quantities with Senseible's factors; HSD and LDO both at the diesel factor. A cluster average hides big gaps between a tablet line and a liquid orals line, so allocate your own.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible turns a year of power bills, diesel and LPG invoices into the Scope 1 and 2 lines a listed customer's BRSR value chain request asks for, each with its factor, its source and the bill behind it.

- [BRSR reporting](https://senseible.earth/brsr-reporting)
- [BRSR value chain requests](https://senseible.earth/answers/brsr-value-chain-data-request-msme-supplier)
- [Footprint per 1,000 tablets](https://senseible.earth/answers/pharma-formulation-carbon-footprint-per-1000-tablets)
- [Allocating cleanroom HVAC](https://senseible.earth/answers/pharma-cleanroom-hvac-emissions-allocation)

Sources: [TERI, Cluster profile: Dehradun pharmaceutical industries (SAMEEEKSHA, 2015)](https://sameeeksha.org/pdf/clusterprofile/Deharadun-Pharmaceuticals-Uttarakhand.pdf), [SAMEEEKSHA, Dehradun pharmaceutical cluster summary](https://sameeeksha.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=174&Itemid=499), [SEBI circular of 28 March 2025 on assurance or assessment, value chain ESG disclosures and green credits](https://www.sebi.gov.in/legal/circulars/mar-2025/measures-to-facilitate-ease-of-doing-business-with-respect-to-framework-for-assurance-or-assessment-esg-disclosures-for-value-chain-and-introduction-of-voluntary-disclosure-on-green-credits_93102.html)

Last reviewed 2026-10-30. TERI data is from 2015. Recheck SEBI value chain rules for any later circular.