Companies such as Finecab, Biological.E, Ankit Packaging, Sandvik Asia, Agarwal Rubber Limited (makers of ARL & MARUTI brand of tyres & butyl tubes) and Asian Paints, Aurobindo Pharma, Paragon Polymer Products Pvt Ltd, hindware, Fenner, Pennar, Kirby Building Systems, Rotec Transmissions are located in this area.

It received a major boost when Indira Gandhi started the Patancheru Industrial park, while serving as the MP of Medak constituency.

The highest level of drug pollution in water was found in Patancheru in 2009.

The pollution results from waste water dumped into the river by the over 90 local pharmaceutical manufacturers.

[1] Political parties had promised that they were going to clean the lake in Patancheru as it was polluted with sewage and a mix of chemicals from the industries around it as the present and MLA and his TRS government had promised to make it drinkable.