Gujarat’s Anand Vidhyanagar based Sardar Patel University (SPU) will confer honorary degrees to Rahul Bajaj, Bajaj group chairman as well as A M Naik, chairman and managing director of L&T, India`s largest engineering firm during SPU`s 54th annual convocation scheduled on December 15, Sardar Patel death anniversary day. Naik is an alumnus of Vallabh...
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Essar Infra bagged Dahej Ghogha ro ro ferry project
Essar Infrastructure will carry out the engineering, procurement and construction activity with an investment of Rs 176 crore to develop Roll-On, Roll-Off service across the Gulf of Khambhat between Ghogha near Bhavnagar in Saurashtra and Dahej in Bharuch district in central Gujarat. The service by Gujarat Maritime Board, will be used for the movement...
Amul’s latest Manthan TV ad features Bharat catching up with India(Video)
The New one The old one A decade back there was a popular Amul advertisement ‘Mero gaam Katha parey…’ the title song of national award winning film ‘Manthan’, which told the story of Amul model of co-operatives. Now, a decade later, the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) that markets brand Amul, has recreated...
Supreme Industries to invest Rs 114 crore to set up plants at Vadodara and Halol this fiscal
Plastic products maker Supreme Industries will invest Rs 58 crore to set up LPG composite gas cylinder plant at central Gujarat’s Halol and also invest Rs 56 crore to start a new manufacturing unit of cross laminated plastic products in Vadodara. This was announced by Shri M.P.Taparia, Managing Director of Supreme Industries. Taparia said...
Neesa Leisure Ltd to launch Coral brand budget hotels in Gandhinagar and Dahej
Gujarat-based Neesa Leisure Ltd will launch budget class hotels under the Coral brand in Gandhinagar(Gujarat), Dahej (Gujarat), Abu Road, Nasik, Lucknow and Raipur. The new property, having about 32-new rooms in Gandhinagar, is adjacent the existing property operated under the brand of Cambay Spa & Golf resorts. The rooms at the new property in...
Chambal Fertilisers to set up a single super phosphate plant at Dahej in Gujarat
In a statement issued to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), Chemicals and fertilisers maker Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd (CFCL) informed that the board of directors of the company has granted approval to wset up a single super phosphate (SSP) plant at Dahej in Bharuch district of Gujarat at an approximate investment of Rs...
Israel based Makhteshim-Agan Group opens agro formulation facility in Dahej GIDC
The Indian subsidiary of the Israel based company, Makhteshim-Agan Group, has set up a Agro formulation facility in Dahej GIDC worth Rs 150 crores. The plant was inaugurated on Thursday. The subsidiary of the company is known as Makhteshim-Agan India Ltd. Erez Vigodman, President of the company said that they want to provide the...
Kohler opens Faucets manufacturing plant at Jhagadia
American company Kohler opened it’s manufacturing unit at central Gujarat’s Jhagadia in the Bharuch district with an investment of Rs 60 crore to produce faucets. The new plant has CNC machining, automatic electroplating, low pressure die casting and assembly lines manufacturing facilities. A Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) facility will soon be set up in...
Chinese company TBEA to set up Rs 2500 cr power equipment plant in Gujarat
Top Chinese power equipment manufacturing company TBEA will set up a Rs 2,500-crore plant between Vadodara and Bharuch next to national highway No. 8, and an announcement on this was made after a high-level meeting TBEA chairman Zhang Xin had with chief minister Narendra Modi in Gandhinagar on Thursday, according to ToI report. The...
Modi inaugurates Rockwool’s wool insulation plant at Dahej
Chief Minister Narendra Modi today announced to set up a world-class maritime park on the seacoast of Bharuch district. Chief Minister said this while inaugurating a manufacturing plant of a Denmark based company Roxul Rockwool at the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) of Dahej in Bharuch. Rs.159-crore plant will manufacture fire-safe insulation material – Stone...
Partial strike of labors in GM car plant of Halol ends
As many as 500 workers of General Motors India’s Halol plant on strike for last 50 days are going to resume their duty from thursday(4 May) after fresh settlement between the union and management. The company had continued production of cars in one shift but suffered loss of production of about 3000 cars during...
Samsung wins USD 230 million Dahej order of OPal
South Korea’s largest industrial plant builder Samsung Engineering Co. has said that it has won a USD 230 million order to build a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant in Gujarat. Under the deal with ONGC Petro-additions Ltd. (OPaL), a unit of India’s state-run Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (ONGC), Samsung Engineering will build the...