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Chemical
Chemical | 09 April 2020

ITI partners DRDO to manufacture ventilators

ITI has joined hands with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to produce portable ventilators, a first of its kind in India, following the Coronavirus or COVID-19 outbreak

Chemical
Chemical | 09 April 2020

Clariant begins production of disinfectant amid Coronavirus outbreak

The company announced it has started monthly production of 2 million liters of disinfectant at its facilities in Gendorf, Germany

Chemical
Chemical | 09 April 2020

Archroma introduces a new thickener for sanitizing gels

The company has announced the introduction of Mowiplus HPC 9600, a new thickener for sanitizing gels to address global shortage due to COVID?19 crisis

Chemical
Chemical | 09 April 2020

INEOS ramps up hand sanitizer production capacity

The company has also announced that it has met its ten-day target to build a hand sanitizer plant in Lavera, France and has started production of 1 million hand sanitizers a month

Chemical
Chemical | 09 April 2020

Siemens and Uniper join forces to decarbonize power generation

The aim of this cooperation is to contribute to improving the economic efficiency and thus the marketability of power-to-gas plants

Chemical
Chemical | 08 April 2020

BASF to manufacture disinfectants at European sites

The products are being provided free of charge to hospitals, care facilities and other institutions in regions surrounding production plants

Chemical
Chemical | 08 April 2020

Galaxy Surfactants resumes operations

The company is taking necessary preventive measures like social distancing, temperature testing and providing masks to workers etc. to avoid any infection due to COVID-19

Chemical
Chemical | 08 April 2020

Partial opening of Dahej & Vadodara facilities by GACL

The company has started partial operation of Poly Aluminium Chloride (PAC) and Hydrogen Peroxide Plants at Dahej Complex and Chloromethanes and Poly Aluminium Chloride (PAC) Plants at Vadodara Complex after obtaining necessary permission from the concerned industries

Chemical
Chemical | 07 April 2020

Huntsman producing hand sanitizer to aid in COVID-19 response

Company has begun producing hand sanitizer at its manufacturing site in McIntosh, Alabama, for distribution to health care facilities in the United States

Chemical
Chemical | 07 April 2020

Cummins and DuPont partner to supply critical material for N95 respirator masks

The first masks featuring the filter technology are being used as part of a project to supply masks to Minnesota’s M Health Fairview network

Chemical
Chemical | 06 April 2020

IIT Roorkee develops surveillance app to tackle COVID-19

The app can track individuals and can also do geofencing around him. The system will get an alert, if geofencing is violated by the quarantined person. In case GPS data is not received, the location will be obtained automatically through the triangulation of mobile towers

Chemical
Chemical | 06 April 2020

COVID-19 impact on Indian chemicals & petrochemicals

Expecting restrictions in India to be lifted in late Q2 2020, the chemicals & petrochemicals market will start recovering in H2 2020 says KPMG

Chemical
Chemical | 05 April 2020

Partial opening of Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals facilities

Company has started partial operation of Caustic Soda, Hydrochloric Acid (HCl), Phosphoric Acid, Sodium Hypo and Chlorine filling facilities at Dahej Complex and also Caustic Soda and KOH at Vadodara Complex

Chemical
Chemical | 05 April 2020

Coronavirus probably originated from Wuhan laboratory

According to Chinese researcher Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao coronavirus probably originated from Wuhan Centre for Disease Control & Prevention (WHCDC) and Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chemical
Chemical | 05 April 2020

IIT Delhi invites proposals for supercomputer based coronavirus research

In this, allocation of supercomputer resource to merit based proposals will be made for three months and a total of Rs 1 Cr worth of computational time will be provided to them for free. Each proposal will have a maximum cap of Rs 10 lakh worth of computational resource

Chemical
Chemical | 04 April 2020

UPL contributes Rs. 75 Crore to PM-CARES Fund

The company is also continuously providing large numbers of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) units to help with the safety of India’s frontline heroes in Healthcare and Sanitisation who are relentlessly fighting the battle against Novel Corona Virus

Chemical
Chemical | 04 April 2020

Indian Potash donates Rs. 5 Cr to PM-CARES

Many other PSUs of fertilizers department like IFFCO, KRIBHCO and NFL-KISAN have also contributed more than Rs. 27 crores to PM-CARES fund

Chemical
Chemical | 04 April 2020

Sanjay Dhotre launches COVID-19 hackathon

The hackathon is part of a global initiative and is being organised by Hack A Cause – India and FICCI Ladies Organization Pune and supported by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India

Chemical
Chemical | 04 April 2020

Govt. launches coronavirus app AarogyaSetu

AarogyaSetu will enable people to assess themselves the risk of catching coronavirus infection based on their interaction with others, using bluetooth, algorithms and AI (Artificial Intelligence)

Chemical
Chemical | 03 April 2020

ExxonMobil joins Global Center to expedite PPE production

The move help in rapid design and deployment of reusable personal protection equipment for health care workers

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