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Being good corporate citizen, companies can gain competitiveness: Ashwin Shroff
In this interview, Ashwin Shroff, CMD, Excel industries, sheds light on advantage of being responsible corporate citizen and shares Excel's experience in community welfare activities
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Companies Act, an enabler of CSR in chemical industry?
The Act is expected to motivate the companies for devising the best way to make their CSR spend count and impact all the stakeholders effectively
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AspenTech unveils aspenONE V8.8 software for process industries
The new software expected to help manufacturers achieve operational excellence, and drive profitability with workflow, performance and usability innovations
Evonik inaugurates oil additives plant in Singapore
The capacity of the plant has nearly doubled, making it the largest oil additives production site within Evonik's global production network
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Solvay completes divestment of refrigerant biz to Daikin
Divestment was a result of Solvay's Special Chem GBU decision to refocus its activities on selective high value-added segments in the growing automotive and electronics markets
Airgas opens specialty gas facility in US
The facility will add jobs to the region and further expand the company's capacity to serve customers throughout the Western US
Omkar Speciality Chemicals receives orders worth Rs 100 crore
The company has received concrete indents in April, 2015 from its customers in India as well as from overseas for orders close to Rs 100 cr to be executed during the current financial year
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IOL Chemicals receives approval for metformin in Europe
The certificate, issued by EDQM, will enable IOLCP to sell metformin hydrochloride in Europe resulting into increase in higher value added export turnover and margin
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Arkema launches polyamide processed from castor oil
The new range of biosourced polyamides, Rilsan S, is manufactured in China by Arkema, which has a stake in Ihsedu Agrochem, a subsidiary of Jayant Agro that specialises in castor oil production
Jacobs bags contract for Huntsman's polyetheramine facility in Singapore
The Jurong Island facility expansion is expected to enable backward integration to produce polyethers from locally sourced feedstocks
BASF inaugurates Ultramid polyamide plant in China
The new plant, with a capacity of 100,000 metric tonnes per year, is the first investment in polyamide polymerisation for BASF in Asia Pacific
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Songwon forms JV with Qingdao Long Fortune for additives in China
The JV, which will be based in the Qingdao area of Eastern China, will also set up a One Pack Systems (OPS) plant which will be located in the Pingdu County industrial park
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P Rajendran is the new executive director (WR) of Indian Oil
In his earlier position, he was executive director (lubes) at IOC's head office in Mumbai
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Indian Potash to procure 80,000 tonne of potash from Russia's Uralkali
Russian firm will supply total 800,000 metric tonnes of potassium chloride (KCl) between May 2015 and March 2016
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Albemarle unveils new catalyst for hydrocracking pre-treat market
Along with its hydroprocessing alliance partner UOP, Albemarle is in the final stages of pilot plant testing, and global rollout of the catalyst is expected in the second half of 2015
Boulevard Acquisition to buy Dow's AgroFresh for $860 mn
AgroFresh is a global industry leader in advanced proprietary technologies for the horticultural and agronomic markets
Gujarat State Fertilisers aims Rs 10,000 cr turnover by 2017-18
With the commissioning of planned new projects, involving investment of Rs 10,000 cr, GSFC aims to achieve the targeted turnover by 2017-18 from Rs 6000 cr currently
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Celanese starts work on new VAE emulsions unit in Singapore
The Singapore plant will support the vinyl acetate ethylene (VAE) emulsion markets of Southeast Asia and other Asia Pacific countries including India, Australia and New Zealand
Europe Parliament clamps down on wasteful use of plastic bags
Furthermore, the EC is required to assess the impact on the environment of oxo-degradable plastic materials, which fragment into small particles, and propose suitable measures
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BASF begins trial run at mononitrobenzene facility in Chongqing
The facility, one part of BASF's Euro 860 million investment plan, is the first precursor plant of integrated methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) complex
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