India's Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has deferred making a decision on a proposed chloromethanes joint venture between a subsidiary of Dow Chemical and Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd (GACL) as the government would like more time 'to examine the proposal', reports ICIS news.
The joint venture plans to build a 200,000 tonne/year chloromethanes plant at Dahej, Gujarat state. The project is scheduled for financial closure by late 2008 and commissioning in 2011.
The Dow subsidiary that would participate in the joint venture, Dow Europe, is owned by Dow Europe Holding of the Netherlands. Dow Europe Holding is, in turn, owned by Dow Chemical, which is struggling to get past the Bhopal legacy in India.
Wonder if that has influenced the government's decision on the chloromethanes joint venture?