Entries from India Chemicals Blog tagged with 'Gujarat'

Empty promises

The 100-day fever is fast spreading and the Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilisers is the latest casualty. A very bland press release outlining what the ministry plans to achieve over the next three months has come my way. I started...

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...

Will Gujarat gain from Beijing clean up?

China’s move to clean up Beijing ahead of the Olympics is likely to have far reaching repercussions for the Indian chemicals industry. ICIS news reported today that the Chinese government was regulating the production and sale of more than 257...

Preparing for the future

I am back from the first Asian Chemical and Petrochemical Conference with lots of information on the Indian chemicals industry that I plan to share in the coming days. The conference, jointly organised by ICIS and the Indian Chemical Council...

No end to pollution

India, I thought, had done a lot to curb industrial production and clean up its environment. I was also quite sure that the country was miles ahead of China in this area. So I was quite surprised to find that...