Karamtara Engineering Limited IPO — the disclosed details

Karamtara Engineering Limited is running a mainboard IPO, proposed to be listed on BSE Limited and the National Stock Exchange of India Limited, with NSE as the Designated Stock Exchange. This page restates what the company has filed in its Red Herring Prospectus dated September 3, 2026, and stops there. The RHP fixes the Fresh Issue, Offer for Sale and total Offer size in rupees but leaves the Price Band and the Bid Lot blank, to be advertised ahead of the September 9 bid opening; those two figures, and anything computed from them, are marked (as reported) below. If the vocabulary is new — DRHP, price band, buckets, allotment — read how an Indian IPO actually works first.

What the company does

Karamtara Engineering Limited was incorporated in 1996 and converted to a public limited company in December 2024. The RHP describes it as a backward-integrated manufacturer of engineered products for the renewable-energy and power-transmission sectors. Citing a Frost & Sullivan report that the RHP states was exclusively paid for and commissioned by the company itself, the RHP describes Karamtara as India’s largest integrated manufacturer, by installed capacity, of solar mounting structures and tracker components in Fiscal 2026.

As of March 31, 2026, the company operated 13 manufacturing facilities — eight in Maharashtra, four in Taluka Bhachau, Kutch, Gujarat, and one in Italy — with an aggregate installed capacity of 889,200 MTPA, plus 480,000 pieces a year at its Italian subsidiary, Unit Iselfa. It serves customers in more than 50 countries, and solar energy products made up 78.99% of Fiscal 2026 revenue from operations.

The company is led by Promoter Directors Tanveer Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, and Rajiv Singh, Joint Managing Director, each with about 30 years of manufacturing-sector experience. The other Promoters are Inderjeet Singh and two family trusts, the Inderjeet Tanveer Singh Trust and the Inderjeet Rajiv Singh Trust.

What the money is for

The Offer totals up to Rs 875.00 crore (Rs 8,750.00 million), in two parts: a Fresh Issue of up to Rs 675.00 crore (Rs 6,750.00 million), and an Offer for Sale of up to Rs 200.00 crore (Rs 2,000.00 million). Only the Fresh Issue raises new money for the company, for the objects set out below. The Offer for Sale is a separate transaction in already-issued shares, split evenly between the two Promoter Selling Shareholders, Tanveer Singh and Rajiv Singh (up to Rs 100.00 crore each) — that money goes to them, not to the company.

Object of the fresh issue	Amount, as filed
Prepayment or repayment, in part or full, of the company’s borrowings and Acceptances	Rs 6,000.00 million (against standalone outstanding borrowings of Rs 13,444.96 million and outstanding Acceptances of Rs 7,351.04 million, both as of July 31, 2026)
General corporate purposes	Amount left blank in the RHP, to be finalised on determination of the Offer Price; capped at not more than 25% of the Gross Proceeds of the Fresh Issue

Both Promoter Selling Shareholders’ weighted average cost of acquisition is stated as Nil in the RHP, since their shares originate from bonus issues. Ahead of the Fresh Issue, the company also completed a Rs 750.00 million pre-IPO placement of 2,419,355 CCPS at Rs 310.00 per CCPS (including a Rs 300.00 premium), which reduced the Fresh Issue size under Rule 19(2)(b) of the SCRR.

What the RHP flags as risks

These are the company’s own risk factors, restated from the RHP’s risk-factor section, not this site’s assessment:

• Manufacturing is concentrated in Maharashtra. Maharashtra accounted for 90.84%, 98.61% and 99.18% of revenue from operations in Fiscal 2026, Fiscal 2025 and Fiscal 2024 respectively, and most major product lines — for example, solar torque tubes — are made at a single dedicated facility, so an unplanned disruption or shutdown at any one facility could materially affect the business.
• One manufacturing property carries a title dispute. Unit OHTL Fittings, Tarapur, was acquired through an auction sale in 1997 that was later challenged in civil proceedings, and a court receiver was appointed over the property; the dispute involves the erstwhile owners, the company, its Promoters and third parties. The unit remains operational.
• Revenue depends heavily on the solar energy industry. Solar energy products made up 78.99%, 81.40% and 81.75% of revenue from operations in Fiscal 2026, Fiscal 2025 and Fiscal 2024 respectively, so a downturn in that industry would disproportionately affect results.
• Revenue is concentrated among a small number of customers. The top 10 customers accounted for 48.63%, 40.40% and 63.47% of revenue from operations in Fiscal 2026, Fiscal 2025 and Fiscal 2024 respectively, generally under short-term, non-exclusive arrangements rather than long-term agreements.
• Planned expansion carries execution risk. New domestic capacity for solar stamping parts and PEB structures, entry into battery energy storage systems through a wholly-owned subsidiary, and a new facility in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia all involve limited operating experience; the RHP discloses that the Saudi Arabia facility has already faced setup delays.
• Some corporate records and regulatory filings are not traceable. The RHP itemises eight specific missing items — for example, a 1996 Form 32 and several Form-2/DIR-12 challans — and states these may contain inadvertent errors; it gives no assurance that regulatory proceedings or penalties will not follow in the future.

The numbers as filed

Item	As filed
Issue size	Up to Rs 8,750.00 million (Rs 875 crore) total Offer — up to 34,448,818 Equity Shares at the as-reported Rs 254 cap price
Fresh issue	Up to Rs 6,750.00 million (Rs 675 crore) — up to 26,574,803 Equity Shares at the as-reported Rs 254 cap price
Offer for sale	Up to Rs 2,000.00 million (Rs 200 crore) — up to 7,874,015 Equity Shares at the as-reported Rs 254 cap price
Face value	Rs 10 per Equity Share
Price band	Rs 241 (floor) to Rs 254 (cap) per Equity Share — as reported, not confirmed in the RHP
Lot size	59 Equity Shares, and multiples of 59 thereafter — as reported, not confirmed in the RHP
Minimum investment	Approximately Rs 14,219 for one lot (59 shares) at the as-reported floor price; approximately Rs 14,986 at the as-reported cap price

The RHP itself leaves the Price Band and the Bid Lot as blank (“[.]”) placeholders as of its own date, September 3, 2026. SEBI ICDR rules require the Price Band Advertisement to be published at least two working days before the September 9 bid opening, and no primary-hosted copy of that advertisement could be located as of 5 September 2026. The Rs 241–254 band and the 59-share lot are as reported by two independently fetched sources, Business Today and Free Press Journal. Partial primary corroboration exists: the RHP’s own Capital Structure “weighted average cost of acquisition” footnote states an August 21, 2026 CCPS-to-equity conversion was done “at a price of Rs254.00 per Equity Share” — matching the reported cap price exactly, though that disclosure concerns the CCPS conversion, not a formal Price Band declaration. The minimum investment is arithmetic on the as-reported lot and band (59 × Rs 241 and 59 × Rs 254), not itself a stated RHP figure.

The Offer size was revised down from the original DRHP, filed January 22, 2025, which proposed a Fresh Issue of up to Rs 13,500.00 million and an Offer for Sale of up to Rs 4,000.00 million (Rs 17,500.00 million total). The RHP’s Capital Structure chapter attributes the reduced Fresh Issue size to an IPO Committee resolution dated August 25, 2026; a DRHP Addendum of the same date separately records SEBI’s approval letter for the reduced Fresh Issue size, with the Offer for Sale reduced from Rs 4,000.00 million to Rs 2,000.00 million on a corresponding basis.

Restated Consolidated Financial Information, from the RHP (Rs million unless noted):

	FY2024	FY2025	FY2026
Revenue from operations	24,251.50	31,584.45	43,119.76
EBITDA	2,629.28	3,468.30	4,981.10
EBITDA margin	10.84%	10.98%	11.55%
Profit after tax	1,026.50	1,393.32	2,287.54
PAT margin	4.23%	4.40%	5.30%
Basic / diluted EPS (face value Rs 10)	Rs 3.64	Rs 4.90	Rs 7.83
Total equity	5,534.38	9,831.86	12,199.17
Total assets	18,445.62	27,625.87	41,422.37
Total borrowings	5,085.14	5,562.76	10,301.29
Net Debt/EBITDA	1.76x	1.41x	1.77x
Return on equity	20.45%	18.13%	20.77%
Export revenue (% of revenue from operations)	57.56%	51.31%	40.52%

Revenue from operations grew 36.52% year-on-year in Fiscal 2026, per the RHP. Export revenue was Rs 17,474.92 million in Fiscal 2026, a smaller share of a larger total as domestic revenue grew faster.

Who can actually sell on listing day

On listing day, most of Karamtara Engineering’s share register is not allowed to trade.

The RHP’s Capital Structure chapter sets out four locked buckets:

Who	Locked for, per this RHP
Minimum Promoters’ contribution — 20% of the fully diluted post-Offer equity share capital, under Regulations 14 and 16 of the SEBI ICDR Regulations	18 months from the date of Allotment
Promoters’ shareholding in excess of that 20%	6 months from the date of Allotment
All other pre-Offer equity share capital, under Regulation 17(1) — excludes shares Allotted in the Offer for Sale, and shares held by a VCF, Category I or II AIF, or FVCI (these instead lock for at least 6 months from their own date of purchase)	6 months from the date of Allotment
Anchor Investors	50% of the Anchor Investor allotment for 90 days from the date of Allotment; the remaining 50% for 30 days from the date of Allotment

The RHP applies the standard, non-capex duration to the Promoters’ lock — the Fresh Issue here funds debt prepayment/repayment and general corporate purposes only, with no capital-expenditure object that would trigger a longer variant. Separately, Equity Shares allotted under the company’s ESPS 2025 scheme before Allotment carry their own 12-month lock from the date of that ESPS allotment, rather than the standard 6-month non-promoter lock above.

The offer, at the as-reported Rs 254 cap price:

Step	Shares	% of post-issue capital
Fresh issue	26,574,803	8.26%
Offer for Sale	7,874,015	2.45%
Total offer	34,448,818	10.70%

The Anchor Investor Bid/Offer Period is Tuesday, September 8, 2026, one Working Day before the Offer opens, and has not happened as of this writing — so the anchor-locked share count is not yet known. The two boundary scenarios:

Scenario	Anchor shares locked	Sellable on listing day	% of post-issue capital
Anchor takes its maximum — 60% of the QIB Portion	10,334,645	24,114,173	7.49%
Zero anchor allotment	0	34,448,818	10.70%

The table above assumes full subscription of the Offer. The final number lands with the exchange’s anchor-allocation list once the Anchor Investor Bid/Offer Period closes and the allotment is disclosed.

A lock-in is not a forecast of anything — it is a restriction on selling; it says who may trade, not what the price will do.

Figures are from the RHP’s Capital Structure chapter and Offer Structure disclosures, with the offer-share counts built on the as-reported Rs 254 cap price, as of 5 September 2026.

Dates and mechanics

Event	Date
Anchor Investor Bid/Offer Period	Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Bid/Offer Opening Date	Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Bid/Offer Closing Date	Friday, September 11, 2026
Finalisation of Basis of Allotment with the Designated Stock Exchange (on or about)	Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Credit of Equity Shares to demat accounts (on or about)	Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Commencement of trading on the Stock Exchanges (on or about)	Thursday, September 17, 2026

This is a 100% Book Built Offer made under Rule 19(2)(b) of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Rules, 1957, read with Regulation 31 of the SEBI ICDR Regulations, 2018 — the Regulation 6(1) mainboard eligibility route, via the standard net-tangible-assets/operating-profit/net-worth tests over three fiscal years. There is no SME or NSE Emerge eligibility route invoked in this Offer. The Equity Shares are proposed to be listed on BSE Limited and the National Stock Exchange of India Limited, with NSE as the Designated Stock Exchange.

Bucket	Share of the Offer
Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIB)	Not more than 50%
— of which, Anchor Investor Portion (at the company’s discretion)	Up to 60% of the QIB Portion
— of which, reserved for domestic Mutual Funds, within the Anchor Portion	33.33%
— of which, reserved for Life Insurance Companies and Pension Funds, within the Anchor Portion	6.67%
— of which, reserved for Mutual Funds, within the Net QIB Portion	5%
Non-Institutional Investors (NII)	Not less than 15% (one-third for bids above Rs 0.20 million up to Rs 1.00 million, two-thirds for bids above Rs 1.00 million)
Retail Individual Investors (RII)	Not less than 35%

Any unsubscribed Life Insurance/Pension Fund sub-reservation within the Anchor Portion is available to domestic Mutual Funds, and any unsubscribed Anchor Portion overall flows to the Net QIB Portion. An Anchor Investor’s minimum bid must be at least Rs 100.00 million (Rs 10 crore); the Anchor Investor Offer Price will be equal to or higher than the Offer Price, but not higher than the Cap Price.

Book Running Lead Managers: JM Financial Limited, ICICI Securities Limited, and IIFL Capital Services Limited (formerly IIFL Securities Limited). Registrar to the Offer: MUFG Intime India Private Limited (formerly Link Intime India Private Limited).

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Information as of 5 Sep 2026, taken from the offer documents and pages linked below. This is not an IPO review and no subscribe/avoid rating is given. Figures move through the issue lifecycle — check the filed documents before acting on any of them. Grey-market premium is an unofficial, unregulated price with no exchange record, and is not referenced here as information. Where the standing notice below refers to hypothetical figures, that covers the illustrative worked examples used in the options posts on this site — every number on this page is reproduced from the filed documents cited above.

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