CapEx is a database of investment projects that involve the setting up of new capacities. The name “CapEx” is a concatenation of the short form of Capacity Expansion, or of Capital Expenditure.

An investment project involves some capital expenditure and it involves some capacity expansion. The CapEx database is about the announcement of such projects, their implementation and their final culmination into new capacities.

The CapEx database captures only those projects that entail a capital expenditure of Rs.10 million or more. Projects with investments of less than Rs.10 million are not included.

The CapEx database captures new projects being announced, tracks the various events of all the projects in its radar and captures the end of the project. It also also provides aggregate estimates of the total investments on hand (i.e. total live projects) in the country. These are also segregated into those under implementation and those in the initial stages of announcement. Another useful derivative of the CapEx database is the set of projections of new capacities expected in future time-zones.