Entries from India Chemicals Blog tagged with 'Dow Chemical'
Keeping up with the times
Chemical companies are constantly adapting to external challenges and this is clearly evident in a comparison of the ICIS listing of top chemical companies in 2008 and 1998. Three companies that figured in the top 10 list for 1998 have...
New year ushers in new problems
December closed with ominous signs for the industry. Dow Chemical's proposed commodity petrochemicals joint venture with Petrochemical Industries Co (PIC) was scrapped after strong protests from Kuwaiti opposition leaders who believed that the deal was overpriced at a time when...
New brooms sweep clean
I should not be surprised that Maharashtra's new chief minister is having second thoughts about Dow Chemical's plans for a research centre at Chakan, near Pune. Unfortunately, I am. I fail to see how a research centre will increase pollution....
Dow forced to halt work at Chakan
In yet another blow to Dow Chemical's plans for India the company has had to halt work on its new R&D centre at Chakan, near Pune, following instructions from the Maharashtra chief minister. The government's directive was aimed at appeasing...
Dow jv hits a roadblock
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...
Spotlight on Bhopal
Indian papers and news channels are once again buzzing with reports about Dow Chemical and Bhopal. This time it is about the law ministry's view on whether the company should clean up the Bhopal site. The law ministry's comments on...
The caustic-chlorine dilemma
Indian demand for caustic soda has been steadily expanding thanks to the alumina sector but investments in new chlor-alkali facilities are being held back by limited demand growth for chlorine. As is usually the case, India’s low per capita consumption...
Projects and protests
I am back from my holiday and have discovered no earthshaking developments in the last few weeks. But the following news articles caught my eye. First, Dow Chemical’s European arm and GACL have agreed on a 50:50 joint venture to...
Protests hit Dow's Chakan R&D centre
It looks like Dow Chemical will not be able to easily forget the Bhopal gas tragedy or rather India will not allow the company to move ahead. The latest is news of protests against Dow’s planned R&D centre at Chakan,...
India attracts R&D dollars
R&D investments in India are steadily growing. This Reuters report states that DuPont will double its investment in a planned R&D centre in Hyderabad to Rs2bn over two years. The Hyderabad centre will be the company six largest outside the...
Dow's new challenge
It is more than twenty years since the Bhopal gas tragedy but the after effects continue to linger. Dow Chemical, which inherited the Bhopal legacy when it acquired Union Carbide, is reportedly facing opposition yet again and this time from...
Anyone for plastics paradise?
In its quest for value addition, Saudi Arabia is aggressively marketing itself as an investment destination for the plastics industry. And processors from India are being wooed to set up shop in the Kingdom. A delegation of Indian processors, just...
Dow's latest India move
Looks like Dow Chemical is set to boost its presence in India. Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd (GACL) announced yesterday that it has signed a MoU with Dow for business cooperation in chlorinated organics. It is not yet clear if...
It is not yet over...
Is it too early to bury the Dow and Reliance joint-venture deal? Today's Economic Times reports that the two companies are still talking but a deal could be a few months away as many issues still need to be sorted...
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