Exploring collaboration opportunity for hydrogen and renewable energy technology: Harish Kumar, Head Business Development, Simon India and Amit Kumar, Head Special Initiative, Simon India

We are executing chlor-alkali plant in Iraq, 1,500 TPD sulphuric acid plant in Paradeep and chlor-alkali project in Qatar etc. Also exploring opportunity in Gypsum and biogas

Domestic demand, global supply shifts, and sustainability driving growth opportunities for India's chemicals industry: Aashish Kasad, National Leader - Chemicals and Agriculture Sector, EY India

Increasing investment in R&D, developing skilled labour force, adequate infrastructure and policy support like PLI scheme required to accelerate the growth of Indian chemicals and petrochemicals sector

Govt. must create a Taskforce to ensure compliance and safety for logistics of dangerous goods: Radharamanan Panicker, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Dangerous Goods Management India

We do require regulatory framework like US and Europe to check compliance of containers

Planning to expand our market base in Europe and US: Amaltash Saxena, Executive Director, Blast Carboblocks

The L/D ratio of the holes in the 4th Generation is very small to prevent a steady flow rate being established before the fluid reaches the outlets to increase heat transfer coefficient

Indo Amines set to launch Rs. 60 crore specialty chemicals plant: N.G.Mane, President, Indo Amines

Planning to find partners to acquire an agrochemical or pharma API company

Aiming to launch cobot family product 'TOMA' in India by end-2025: Prashant Mishra, National Sales Manager, Premier Tech

INERA driving innovation to improve crop productivity and resilience: Srinivas K Karavadi, President, INERA

INERA plans to expand its product portfolio with more specialized bio-inputs tailored to different crops and regions

Asia Pacific is a growth market with lot of investments and collaborations: Dr. Volkar Fitzner, Global Chemicals Leader, PwC

Apart from China, there are countries like India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Taiwan that present huge opportunities

India’s future depends on a strong chemical industry: Padma Shri Prof. (Dr.) G. D. Yadav, President, Indian Chemical Society & Former Vice Chancellor, ICT, Mumbai

We need to encourage greener production technologies and the special zones through government policy which must be to create a hub of the chemical industry

Chemistry is life and life is chemistry: Padma Shri Prof. (Dr.) G. D. Yadav, President, Indian Chemical Society & former Vice Chancellor, ICT, Mumbai

It is not the net zero but net negative technology which is required for achieving the goal

HRRL's 2.4 MTPA petrochemical plant to have highest petrochemical intensity index at 26.6 in India: Saugata Chaudhuri, Head - Petrochemicals, HPCL

HRRL's petrochemical complex to become operational in Q2-Q3 of fiscal 2025-26

Speedy approval, investment in R&D and a better infrastructure essential to accelerate growth of the chemical industry: Vishal Sharma, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer (Chemicals), Godrej Industries

We have earmarked Rs. 800 crore capex for expansion in the next 4 years

PIP signed with 12 companies so far in Phase I: Virender Kumar, VP - Marketing, Arete Group

Arete Group is going to launch phase II in near future

Aim to execute 1-2 plants in India in next 1 year: Maik Mokelke, Strategy Manager (Sales & Marketing), EPC Engineering & Technology

Exploring opportunities for polycarbonate technology as there is a huge demand for polymer and fibers in India

Exploring business opportunities in the India market: Ahmed Bibak, Director - PR and International Affairs, Jampilan Petrochemical

We have the biggest production unit for PP in Iran

We are constantly investing in understanding the vendor ecosystem: Rajesh Reddy, Co-founder & CEO, Venwiz

Venwiz is facilitating with innovative solutions to chemical companies for their expansion in terms of selection of vendors

India is one of the biggest importer of our urea: Vahid BazazZadeh, Vice President of Commerce, Pardis Petrochemical

The price of urea in Iran is cheaper than other countries

We are operating demonstration plant for converting plastics into pyrolysis oil: Herman Stockinger, Head of Sales Management, BDI Bioenergy International

We have built the most industrial size biodiesel plants globally

Our intent is to grow all our businesses as opportunity comes: Jayant V. Dhobley, Business Head & CEO, Global Chemicals, Fashion Yarn and Insulators, Aditya Birla Group

We have a very high focus on safety, reducing emissions and offering sustainable products to customers

India should take advantage of prevailing opportunities to advance agriculture growth: Simon Wiebusch, President, Bayer - South Asia, CEO - Bayer CropScience Ltd. and Country Divisional Head (India, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka)

The overall demand is coming up and agrochemical sector is coming out of down cycle

We have developed our warehouse network across Gujarat: Ibrahim Kalva, Representative, Maxchem

Maxchem supplies more than 200 chemicals to oil drilling companies

India is one of our main markets: K. Garmchi, General Manager of Export Dept, Khark Petrochemical

We supply our products to over 10 companies in India and looking at expanding our business in India

We are exploring collaboration with Indian companies for base chemicals: Jinhong Kim, Team Leader/Base Chemicals Planning Team, Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical

As of now, we are purchasing feedstock like naphtha from India

We are now focussing on nano and combination formulations: Dr. Mohana Krishna Reddy Mudiam, Director, IPFT

We are launching skill development programme for agrochemical industry