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The roofing and cladding market in India is seeing a perception shift with extensive exibility for design and customisation.

- Seraphina D'Souza

The size of the total Indian roofing market is over 1 billion sq m, with a continuous evolution in the market for cladding.

Manish Garg, President and CEO-Steel Building Business, Everest Industries, divides the roofing market into three parts: “Rural retail (led by the use of cement sheets); industrial or infrastructure; and urban retail.” Cement sheets maintain their virtual market share of over 75 per cent in rural retail; in industrial, it is mainly metal sheets.

The roofing and cladding industry has seen a perception shift. Gautam Suri, Founder Director & CTO, Interarch Building Products, says, “The steel roofing industry has registered good growth over the past few years, with an approximate market size of 1.2 million tonne.”

The market for cladding has come a long way. “The total size of the Indian façade market is estimated at over 80 million sq m per annum,” says Dr Prashanth Reddy, Managing Director, FunderMax India. “Glass takes a majority share, followed by stone, aluminium composite panels, and about 5 per cent by new-generation materials like HPL, fibre cement boards and natural woods like IPE.” The industry is catching up quickly with international trends in building envelope design and the use of materials like ceramic tiles and metal panels.

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Nowadays, roofs are customised to a greater extent; design alterations are made depending on the building type, size and requirement. Suri says, “We are seeing roofing trends – green and eco-friendly materials, energyefficient roofing, and lighter colour roofs – offering a variety of benefits.”