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That month, 30,150 tons of scrap plastics left the port district, a decrease of 55 percent.

• Plastics
• Import
• Export

The very next day, China announced the list of 106 additional products subject to tariffs, including chemicals, bringing the total numbe...

• Plastics
• Trade War

The FDA has approved Novartis’ Afinitor DISPERZ® (everolimus tablets for oral suspension), for the adjunctive treatment of adult and pediatric patients aged two years and older with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC)-associated partial-onset seizures.

• FDA
• approval

Petroleum Minister Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan has said the government is open to Saudi oil giant Aramco's interest to own majority stake in the proposed Rs. 3-trillion refinery at Ratnagiri, which when completed will be the largest single location refinery...

• India
• Refinery

The third edition of RenewX, a two-day renewable energy trade expo organised UBM India will be held on 13th and 14th April, 2018 at the Hitex, Hyderabad. Augmented by the legacy of its flagship Renewable Energy India Expo (REI India), UBM India through...

• RenewX
• India

Nandini Consultancy Centre (NCC), a chemical engineering and chemical business consultancy organisation based at Chennai and Singapore, has announced the release of a comprehensive publication on ‘Guidelines for Students for Entry into Chemical...

• Students
• Consultancy
• India

Increasing connectivity of technology across the mining and metals sector is making it more difficult than ever for companies to keep pace and secure their digital environment, according to a report by EY on ‘Does cyber risk only become a priority once...

• Mining
• India
• Metal

Leading masterbatch maker, Alok, has announced the appointment of Dr. Nitin Joshi as Vice President-Technology.

• India
• Alok
• People

The plastics ban in Maharashtra is expected to lead to a GST loss of Rs. 800-crore, according to the All India Plastics Manufacturers’ Association (AIPMA). The Association has been opposing the ban.

• Plastics
• India

Leading water and environment management firm, Ion Exchange (India) Ltd, recently commissioned “India’s first Andicos waste to energy system” for a project in Hyderabad, Telengana. Andicos is a joint initiative of Ion Exchange with Belgium-based VITO ...

• India
• Ion
• Waste

Eminent chemical engineer and former Director General, CSIR, Dr. Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, has joined the judging panel for the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QE Prize).

• Engineer
• Prize
• India

Over one-third of funds distributed under an innovative public-private R&D initiative in the country may not come back to the public exchequer as the private firms that taken these soft loans have defaulted on payment as the projects failed to produce

• CSIR
• R&D
• fund

The Construction Chemicals Manufacturers’ Association (CCMA) recently organised the 3rd edition of ‘International Conference of Suppliers to Construction Chemicals Industry of India (SCC)’ in Mumbai. The event brought together key technical and ...

• CCMA
• Mumbai

Avantor, the US-based supplier of high-performance chemistries and materials under several brand names, including the ‘J.T.Baker’, ‘NuSil’, ‘Rankem’, among others, has announced that the National Safety Council in India (NSC) has its cGMP manufacturing...

• Avantor
• India
• Manufacturing

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• Echemi
• Daily

The company has a recognised procedure for tracking the use of renewable raw materials throughout the production process as far as the end product.

• WACKER
• Silicone
• Methanol

Jeen International has launched Jeechem NDA, a new emollient that acts as a functional replacement for synthetic, petrochemical-derived alkanes.

• Jeen
• Alkane

The quest to produce quality bottles with greater precision and speed is being met with investment and innovation by blow molding machine manufacturers.

• NPE2018
• Molding

NPE2018 will feature new products from many compounders, including Star Plastics Inc. and Polymer Resources Ltd.

• NPE2018
• Plastics

Thermoplastic elastomers makers Kraiburg TPE and Elastocon TPE technologies Inc. — as well as specialty resin maker Sekisui Plastics USA — will be at NPE2018 with new materials.

• NPE2018
• TPE