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Gujarat Alkalies to invest Rs 683 cr for setting up chloromethanes plant

The company has also revised the project cost for its JV, GACL-Nalco Alkalies (formed to set up a caustic soda plant along with power plant at Dahej), to about Rs 2000 crores

Bayer to set up active ingredients plant for agrochemicals in Vapi

The German company will invest Euro 30 million for the new plant in Vapi, where it recently opened a global formulation technology laboratory

Maharashtra CM inaugurates Perkins engine facility in Aurangabad

The company has invested more than $ 150 million in the engine manufacturing facility which is also strategically located within the Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor

Dalmia Cement commits to 100% renewable power

The company, which becomes first cement firm to commit to 100% renewable electricity, is the third Indian business to join the RE100 initiative in after Infosys and Tata Motors

ICMR undertakes research initiative to eliminate TB from India

India TB Research and Development Corporation (ITRDC) to bring together all major national and international stakeholders to develop new tools (drug, diagnostics and vaccines) for TB

Apollo Tyres to invest Rs 525 cr for setting up production plant in AP

The new facility will produce tyres for two-wheelers and pick-up vehicles

Enhance production capacity of textile machinery: Smriti Irani

There is need for support of state governments in expanding manufacturing capacity and employment generation capacity, says the Textiles Minister

Reliance receives first ethane carrier from Samsung

RIL has given an order for construction of six such vessels, which will be used by the company for transporting ethane from the US to India for the production of petrochemicals

Fertiliser council ICFNR to adopt international best practices in research

It is of prime importance to have an indigenous research environment in India to achieve food security, according to Ananth Kumar

IG Petrochemicals buys Mysore Petro Chemicals' maleic anhydride business

Mysore Petro Chemicals (MPCL) procures wash water, a raw material required for the production of maleic anhydride, from IG Petrochemicals

Apollo Tyres opens global R&D near Chennai

The R&D centre will service the product development needs for the entire Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa region

Titagarh Wagons to bag maiden contract from Indian Navy

Its subsidiary Titagarh Firema has also secured a new contract worth about Euro 70 million for new traction and fire protection systems in the existing fleet of Italy's Trenitalia

Mahindra HZPC opens Aeroponics facility for potato cultivation

The new facility in Mohali will use Aeroponics plant cultivation technique, in which plant roots are suspended in the air, to produce high-quality potato seeds

Bayern Munich players wear shirts made from recycled ocean plastic waste

Club partner Adidas presented the shirt, which is entirely made of Ocean Plastic - fibres from recycled plastic found in coastal areas of the Maledives

BASF to invest Euro 200 mn to increase global plastic additives capacity

The company's plastic additives business will make this investment, approximately half of which in Asia, in the next five years

L&T ties up with Japan's Chiyoda for emission control technology

Indian firm has signed licence agreement with Chiyoda Corp for its flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) technology, which reduces sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions in thermal power plants

Biocon and Mylan submit application for biosimilar cancer drug trastuzumab in US

The application, which is believed to be the first for a proposed biosimilar trastuzumab in the US, marks first US regulatory submission through the Mylan-Biocon collaboration

Kabra Extrusiontechnik to partner with Germany's Unicor GmbH

Two companies will collaborate to provide a fully integrated extrusion solutions for the Indian & global plastics corrugated pipe industry

Himachal Pradesh receives Centre's nod for pneumonia vaccine

HP will be among four other states (Bihar, UP, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh) that will introduce pneumonia vaccines under Universal Immunisation Programme from 2017

Alfanar buys Crompton Greaves' automation biz for Rs 880 crore

B2B automation business has been on the block since the sale of CG's international power business materialised in March this year