With an annual production capacity of 45,000 tonnes, the massive plant will offer hydrogen peroxide in three concentrations – 35 %, 50 % and 60 %. The firm also has plans to invest 103 million dollars in the next 3-5 years for capacity expansion of the chemical complex.

Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL) has lined up projects worth up to US $ 2.29 billion in the coming years, which include a raw petroleum coke gas complex.

The second largest producer of food in the world is India. The Indian food processing industry accounts for 32 per cent of the country’s total food market. The value of this industry is estimated to be around $121 billion, and it currently employs 13 million people directly and 35 million people indirectly. Chairman, CII National Committee on Food Processing and Chairman & Managing Director, Rasna India, Piruz Khambatta takes us through the several aspects of this industry and the hopes of making India the food factory of the worlds. Excerpts of the interview…

Dupont is investing more than $ 80 million to build a new manufacturing facility in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province in East China. The facility will produce compounded high-end engineering plastics and adhesives to serve customers in transportation, electronics, industrial and consumer products markets.

Lanxess is investing in its ion exchange resin production facility at the Leverkusen, Germany, site. The company is optimizing its process technology and operating efficiency for a eight-figure Dollar amount. The project is scheduled for completion in the first half of 2019.

The Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (Apicorp), a multilateral development bank, has announced signing a financial structuring mandate with Suez Company for Methanol Derivatives to finance the development of a formaldehyde and derivatives project in Damietta, Egypt.

Solvay is set to increase the company’s fluoroelastomer (FKM) production to support global customers’ continuing strong demand for high performance sealing applications.

Nuberg EPC is a global EPC company with two decades of experience in delivering single point responsibility solutions and services for industrial plants. A case study showcasing the firm’s successful projects have been elaborated in the article.

Activated carbon witnesses a downright boom: Global demand is expected to increase more than 10 percent per year through 2016 to 1.9 million metric tons, a new study says. Main driver behind this growth are regulatory changes in the US, market analysts Freedonia believes.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it will conduct a field test of its Ozone Backwashing Energy-Saving Membrane Bioreactor (Eco-MBR).