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8The estimated cost of the proposed project is Rs 476 crore
8The total power requirement will go up from 1.6 MW to 4.6 MW

Ronch Polymers Pvt Ltd is engaged in the manufacturing of water purifiers. The company continues to be the preferred vendor for HUL’s water purifiers. Revenue from HUL constituted 59% of RPPL's turnover in FY21. Moreover, in order to diversify its customer base, the company has added a few new customers in the water purifier segment.
8Although the revenue from these new customers is low presently, it is expected to gradually ramp up

8Navin Fluorine Advanced Sciences Ltd (NFASL) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navin Flourine International Ltd (NFIL). Through NFASL, the parent entity has undertaken various greenfield projects in Gujarat in order to expand its product portfolio. NFASL is setting up three projects to create opportunities for new products in life science and crop science sectors in the fluorochemicals space. It operates through four business verticals namely refrigerants, inorganic fluorides, speciality fluoro-chemicals and CRAMS.
8Recently, it has also added manufacturing of HPP which is a new-age application of fluorine with revenue generation to begin from Q2FY23

8GACL is the second-largest player in the domestic caustic chlorine industry with integrated operations. It produces a wide range of products, including caustic soda, liquid and gaseous chlorine, hydrogen peroxide, phosphoric acid and aluminium chloride, which find application across a diversified group of industries, including textile, pulp and paper, aluminium, detergents, soaps, rayon, plastics, pharmaceuticals, water treatment, and agricultural chemicals. The company is gaining a significant market leadership position in the caustic soda industry while securing a significant portion of its power requirement (its major cost component) through captive low-cost sources, along with a greater share of value-added products in its sales mix, to consistently earn a high PBILDT margin with greater resilience, despite the impact of the inherent cyclicality in the Chlor-alkali industry and the competition from imports

HIPL is the largest manufacturer of printing inks in India, and it also manufactures the majority of ink intermediates, adhesives, resins, pigments and flushes in-house at its manufacturing units
8Hubergroup has a history of more than 255 years and is the sixth-largest ink manufacturer in the global market

8Spectrum, the flagship company of the Surat-based Pratibha Group, is the second-largest manufacturer of dispersed dyes in India which are used in the dyeing and printing of polyester fibre. It manufactures around 175 different shades of dispersed dyes and dye intermediates. The company had undertaken to increase its capacity from 23,400 MTPA to 35,400 MTPA. The operation of the new plant has been stabilized and it has exhibited healthy capacity utilization in the range of 75-80% in the March-May 2022 period which is expected to support its growth in the near term

APT is engaged in the manufacturing of Co-Extruded plastic tubes in a variety of shapes, sizes and different colours ranging from 10 ml to 300 ml fill size.
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8Anjani Closures Pvt Ltd is setting up a green field project for the manufacturing of plastic caps and closures from its proposed facilities located in Gujarat with a proposed installed capacity of 3,000 metric tonnes of caps and closures per annum. The company has failed to provide information for monitoring the rating and has not paid the surveillance fees for the rating exercise as agreed to in its rating agreement

8The selection of Awards and Certificates of Merit will be done after taking into consideration the consistency and growth achieved in exports during the last three years

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8Sumito Chemical India Ltd has again  reassigned Chetan Shah as the managing director

8Engineering plastics' growth in the global market is being fuelled by their superior mechanical and thermal properties, chemical resistance, wear resistance, and high dimensional stability when compared to commodity plastics, especially in the electronic and electrical market

8In contrast to the corporate carbon footprint (CCF), which is calculated for an entire company on an annual basis, the product carbon footprint (PCF) includes the quantities of greenhouse gases emitted and removed over the entire service life of a product. Expressed as CO2 equivalent, the PCF is an important indicator in the life cycle assessment. For injection moulders, the main priority is the carbon footprint with which the machine produced by the manufacturer arrives at the plant

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8A tender has been floated for the procurement of 12,500 MT of methanol
8The bidder must have been engaged in the business of manufacturing/trading of methanol for a minimum period of 3 years
8The material is required for production requirement during July-Aug ’22

8Demand for steel is falling amid pandemic lockdowns and crippled construction activity
8Steel inventories are slowly piling up in the warehouses of the country’s biggest steelmaking hub, the northeastern city of Tangshan, as well as in the provinces of Jiangsu and Shandong

8Polypropylene made with renewable feedstock certified by mass balance accounting under the International Sustainability & Carbon Certification Plus (ISCC PLUS) scheme, is being used in highly-sensitive frozen good packaging. Among the first successful commercial examples of the use of Bornewables PP from Borealis is the new Aino packaging ice cream tubs and lids launched by Finland’s ice cream manufacturer Froneri

8India Steel Expo is a large-scale forum important not only for the industry, but also for the economy as a whole. The event is visited by steel and steel-related industries professionals from all over the world

8With a ceiling of 86,000 euros for local researchers and 142,000 euros for overseas researchers, the grant is aimed at technologies and processes for the Malaysian rubber industry

8Originally scheduled for operation in April, the full-scale launch of the project has been slightly delayed due to covid-related influences. Following the initial production next month, the company aims to obtain various certification before ramping up to the full capacity to manufacture 5 million tires per year

There is a huge rush of vendors for green energy projects
8But eventually it boils down to just a handful of players
8Against a recent tender, it was found out that local value addition is very small indeed

8GAIL will have a new boss

8This refinery tender saw a lot of participation the second time around it was floated

OVL to spend Rs 450 crore in drilling in Myanmar
8Busieness opportunities are likely to come up as a result