Ammonia Greenfield Project
8Cost: 2773 Cr.
8Project Event: Environmental clearance submission in January 2022. The RFQ for the contractor is likely to be released in March 2022.
Nano Fertilizer Greenfield Project
8Cost: 119 Cr.
8Project Event: The company has hired EQMS India Pvt. Ltd for environmental clearance, the proposal for the term of reference has been granted in Feb 2021. The final preparation of the EIA report is still ongoing, a proposal for the environmental clearance is likely to be submitted at the end of February 2022. RFQ for the LSTK contractor is likely to be released in Q4 FY 2021

8One Phosphoric Acid Shipment is coming up on 20th December 2021
8One Rock Phosphate Shipment is reaching on 20th December 2021
8One Ammonia Shipment will reach on 20th December 2021

8State-run Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd aims to continue operating its southern India refinery at full capacity on improved cracks and as it commissions a desalination plant to improve water supply, its managing director said.

8Complying with the Commission for Air Quality Management's (CAQM) direction, all 1,636 industrial units that were re-inspected twice in the month of October and November were found to have converted to clean fuels.

8The Saudi Film Commission has announced an initiative to help local and international production companies to make movies in the Kingdom.

8The Govt should remove control on urea and stop giving subsidy through manufacturers; instead, the Government can give it directly to farmers.

On December 14, 2021, Petrochem sources confirmed that acetic acid prices had increased in the Mumbai market.

NBA prices witnessed a fall in the Hazira market today.

Dibutyl phthalate prices have moved lower in the Mumbai market.

IPA prices are cut at Hazira.

On December 14, 2021, the Chennai market witnessed a rise in C9 solvent prices.

Aniline prices witnessed a huge fall in the Kolkata market.

Prices for butyl acetate have been reduced at Hazira.

Petrochem sources have reported a huge fall in dibutyl phthalate prices in the Chennai market.

High acetic acid prices were recorded in Mumbai today.

8The year 2022 is the deadline set by the government to phase out single-use plastic
8Not much has been said on how this will be achieved, though in August the government notified the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021

8The prospect of this 500 TPD methanol plant has gone all awry
8There has been a delay in commissioning  as well as debt funding tie-up for the cost over-run
8Even so, the future looks better than the past

8This chemical company has 10,000 people working only in its R&D division
8That is very large by any standard

8There is a big shortfall in rubber production in comparison with consumption

8India's petrochemical growth story remains intact despite rising crude or gas prices
8Why is that so?

8Coatings and Coatings (India) Pvt. Ltd.manufactures wood coatings, foundry coatings, alkyd and formaldehyde resins and ethyl alcohol (spirit)
8But it is refusing to cooperate with its rating agency

8A fertilizer maker is collaborating with a chemical producer for green petrochemicals
8Find out how it will work

8DuPont Clean Technologies has announced that the STRATCO alkylation unit at the Fujian Refining and Petrochemical Co. Ltd (FREP) refinery in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China, has successfully started up and completed the performance test, certifying that the unit is meeting performance guarantees

8There is a discussion on over the change in product specific rules in the context of Rules of Origin

8Be warned of online sales of chemicals
8Bulk of the products have carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic substances, according to an inspection report