Gujarat government has put Kalpasar project on fast track and has intended to start the works in year 2012 with target to complete the project before year 2020, however there are pollution related obstructions that are now delaying the final report of the project. According to sources, Kalpasar dam will have waters of six...
Gujarat’s state-run oil and gas explorer Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) has discovered “huge reservoirs” of gas at one of its 41-S well, the shale gas zone in Ankleshwar according to PTI report. The report says that several million cubic feet per day (MCF) of gas, along with some oil during clean up, was...
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Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated Lanxess facility at Jhagadia. Following are the photographs of the event.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today opened specialty chemicals group LANXESS Asia’s state-of-the-art plant for ion exchange resins at Bharuch district’s Jhagadia. The new plant was constructed over a period of two years in the new chemical park in Jhagadia in the Indian state of Gujarat. It boasts an annual capacity of 35,000 metric...
Engineering major Siemens Ltd plans to invest Rs.400 crore ($87 million) on the development of wind turbines in the country over the next two years, said a top company official at company’s Vadodara facility on Tuesday. Speaking on the sidelines of a function after Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the second phase of...
According to PTI report quoting Ceat’s Deputy Managing Director Anant Goenka, tyre-maker Ceat will start commercial production at Gujarat based Halol facility by January next year. The company has invested Rs 650-crore in the Halol plant which has a capacity to make 3,00,000 passenger car radial tyres (PCRs) and 40,000 truck and bus radial...
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Shale Gas Resources between India and USA was signed recently during the visit of President of America, Mr. Barack Obama in New Delhi. As per the MOU, the Nodal GOI Department/Ministry for implementation of MOU is Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas through Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) and...
Three-day strike in Halol based General Motors plant is likely to end today. According to Vadodara region Deputy Labor Commissioner K.O.Shah, a successful meeting was organized yesterday in Godhra in presence of Assistant Labor Commissioner S.V.Vasava and Government Labor Officer M.S.Patel with representatives of the company and agitating workers. While workers put demand of...
Strike by workers at General Motors India”s Halol plant in Vadodara today entered the second day, causing production loss of 225 units and affecting manufacturing of big cars. “So far, there has been production loss of 225 units due to the employee strike at the Halol plant. The production in first shift could not...
General Motors India on Wednesday inaugurated an LNG facility at its Halol plant in Gujarat for gas supply to its manufacturing plant. The new facility is a result of an agreement between General Motors India, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and INOX India for the supply, re-gasification and final delivery of LNG at the...
Expanding its footprint in India, Duravit India Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Germany-based luxury sanitaryware manufacturer Duravit AG, launched its factory at Anand district’s Tarapur, 120 km away from Ahmedabad in Gujarat on Wednesday. This is Duravit AG’s first factory in India and 10th globally. It spreads across 170,000 square metres of...
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