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Chemical
Chemical | 22 October 2020

NFL distributes cotton plucking machines to farmers

National Fertilizers Limited distributed 75 cotton plucking machines to farmers in Rajasthan.

Gas
Gas | 22 October 2020

GAIL provides 18 CNG vehicles to Bengaluru municipality

The vehicles were flagged off by Gaurav Gupta, Administrator of BBMP and Manjunath Prasad, Commissioner, BBMP in the presence of P Murugesan, Executive Director (Southern Region), GAIL (India) Limited and Vivek Wathodkar, Chief General Manager (CGD), GAIL Gas Limited.

Digitization
Digitization | 22 October 2020

AVEVA, SCG announce strategic partnership to deliver a digital reliability platform

Strategic collaboration between the organizations extends the Engineering Digital Twin and harnesses AI-Infused Asset Performance Management to prevent unplanned downtime.

Chemical
Chemical | 22 October 2020

Barentz acquires Singapore based ingredients distributor

The acquisition of Nardev is aligned with Barentz’ strategy to strengthen their position in Asia-Pacific, as well as to become a global leader in life science ingredients.

Chemical
Chemical | 21 October 2020

Johnson Matthey expands fuel cell component production in China

JM’s state of the art, £7.5 million fuel cell component facility in Shanghai complete and commissioning now in progress.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 21 October 2020

Nippon Shokubai to start production of fast-drying superabsorbent polymer

Currently, the company is building a 15,000 ton/y plant at its Himeji Plant, and expects to start production and sales beginning in June 2021.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 21 October 2020

India to continue duty on import of fluoroelastomer from China

Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR), Govt of India took the decision to guard domestic players from cheap imports from the neighbouring country.

Chemical
Chemical | 21 October 2020

Developing new chemical clusters is key for growth, says Shohab Rais

The cluster should be developed in a way where larger units might have their own independent systems but for MSME units there should have a common effluent system, common utility support etc.

Chemical
Chemical | 21 October 2020

Anaven gets environmental clearance to expand MCA production in India

The facility will become the largest MCA plant in India and it will use chlorine and hydrogen manufactured by Atul to produce up to 32,000 metric tons of MCA per year, with the possibility to expand this to 60,000 metric tons per year in the future.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 21 October 2020

BASF, GO Pakistan to jointly develop sustainable fuel solutions

Under the MoU, GO will apply BASF’s wide range of Keropur additives to conventional fuel to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. In addition, both parties will exchange knowledge to better serve local customers in Pakistan.

Chemical
Chemical | 21 October 2020

DKSH to market honeyB range in Malaysia and Brunei

DKSH has been appointed by The Original Beverage Sdn. Bhd. to distribute honeyB – an award-winning and halal-certified ready-to-drink sparkling honey beverage – in Malaysia and Brunei.

Chemical
Chemical | 21 October 2020

Mysoda, UPM develops sparkling water makers using fossil-based plastics with renewables

The raw material used for the Mysoda sparkling water makers is UPM Formi EcoAce biocomposite, which is made of wood fibres and renewable based biopolymer, derived from UPM BioVerno naphtha.

Chemical
Chemical | 21 October 2020

GMM Pfaudler sales, profit grows in second quarter

The company's sales grew 22% YoY and stood at Rs.188.26 crores during the period ended September 30, 2020 as compared to Rs.153.33 crores last year.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 21 October 2020

Henkel, Carbon to partner on high-performance additive manufacturing

The partnership opens the door for industrial customers to access Henkel’s patented single-component technologies (1K) for use with the Carbon Digital Light Synthesis (Carbon DLS) 3D-printing process.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 21 October 2020

Covestro receives first lot of renewable phenol from Borealis

Company has received 1,000 tons of renewable phenol from Borealis for producing high-performance plastic polycarbonate

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 21 October 2020

Phillips Carbon’s Ennore greenfield plant to be commissioned in 2023

The plant will focus on manufacturing rubber black which is used in tyres and also on specialty black.

Chemical
Chemical | 20 October 2020

SUEZ wins wastewater contract for two chemical plants in China

The contracts also include the supply of municipal and industrial wastewater treatment equipment and technical services.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 20 October 2020

Nestle, Plastic Energy to build plastics recycling facility in UK

Both organizations will come together to explore the scope for the first- commercial large-scale facility of its kind in the UK.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 20 October 2020

Indian PSU's to spend Rs. 1.16 Lac crore on capex this fiscal

While reviewing the performance of CPSEs, the Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman said that Capex by CPSEs is a critical driver of economic growth and need to be scaled up for the FY 2020-21 and FY 2021-22.

Digitization
Digitization | 20 October 2020

Wipro to provide digitization solutions to Fortum

As a part of the five-year agreement, Wipro will manage Fortum’s application portfolio across hundreds of applications for more than 11,500 users across 18 countries and provide 24/7 support for business-critical applications.

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