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Reliance for carbon fibre?

Reliance Industries is reported be looking at sourcing technology from India's National Aersospace Laboratories (NAL) to build a 4000 tonnes/year carbon fibre plant at Vadodara. NAL had set up a 20 tonnes/year plant in Bangalore in 2006 with the material used for light combat aircraft, missile and...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-15-2008
Two steps forward, one step back

It is difficult to imagine this happening in any other country except India. After lobbying hard with the central government to secure the right to develop a Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemicals Investment Region (PCPIR) at Mangalore, the Karnataka government is likely to withdraw its application...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-03-2008
Abengoa irritates European Federation for Transport and Environment

Abengoa irritates European Federation for Transport and Environment . The is the response from the EFTE , good points about fuel efficiency. I particularly like this statement from EFTE Running Europe's fleet of heavy, gas-guzzling cars on biofuels rather than petrol is no cure. If Europe truly wants...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-02-2008
Kakinada update

ONGC has decided to exit from the Kakinada refinery and petrochemicals project. But the project is alive as the GMR group remains interested. I think ONGC made the right decision. It will be interesting to see if GMR will be able to improve the project's economics.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-26-2008
Kakinada attracts GMR

Oil and Natural Gas Corp's (ONGC) Kakinada project continues to attract investors despite questions about its viability . The GMR group is the latest and is reported to have formally expressed interest in taking a stake in the refinery and petrochemical project. The board of Kakinada Refinery and...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-23-2008
Who's the most sustainable of them all?

This new report from the Roberts Environmental Center of Claremont McKenna College might answer the question of what companies are the most sustainable in California. Titled "Analysis of Sustainability Reporting of Fortune Companies in California," the report contains a compilation of Pacific...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-19-2008
Watch Out!

It is time for the Indian chemical industry to wake up to the threat of increased flow of downstream chemicals from the Middle East. Countries such as Saudi Arabia are aggressively pushing for the development of a petrochemicals industry that goes beyond olefins and polyolefins. State-owned and private...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-19-2008
Paradip update

I had written about a delay in Indian Oil Corp's (IOC) paraxylene (PX), polypropylene (PP) and styrene projects at Paradip because of rising costs and financial constraints. But a company source tells me that a final decision on the timing of these projects and the refinery will be decided by the...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-13-2008
Sign of things to come?

The big news today is Daiichi Sankyo's acquisition of a controlling stake in Ranbaxy , India's largest pharmaceutical company, for $4.6bn. Analysts have been quick to predict many more such deals which will see international pharma majors entering the generic space. Indian generic players have...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-12-2008
New TiO2 in Orissa

A new titanium dioxide (TiO2) project appears to have taken off at Ganjam in Orrisa. Titanium Products Pvt Ltd (TTPL), a joint venture between Saraf Agencies and a Russian company, plans to produce 40,000 tonnes/year of TiO2, 10,000 tonnes/year of titanium sponge and 108,000 tonnes/year of titanium slag...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-11-2008

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