Grasim Industries, India’s pioneer in viscose staple fibre, will temporarily suspend production at its Nagda (Madhya Pradesh) plant. The company has informed the BSE that it has started reducing production of staple fibre at its ...
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According to an Indian Cotton Federation (ICF) report for the fortnight ended March 31, 2015, around 31 million bales have been pressed till now in the current cotton season. The CCI has procured approximately 8.6 million bales of ...
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The Indian subsidiary of Clariant, a producer of specialty chemicals has acquired the black pigment preparations business of Lanxess, located at Nagda in Madhya Pradesh. Lanxess manufactures black pigment preparations used for processing ...
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“All India kappas (raw cotton) arrivals have touched approximately 3 crore bales and CCI cotton procurement has crossed approximately 80 lakhs bales till now,” informs the fortnightly report of Indian Cotton Federation. It ...
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Wai Wai noodles producer CG Foods is planning to ramp up its noodle production capacity in India, a move that could require an investment of around INR50bn ($801.4m). The investment will be used to establish two manufacturing units in ...
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The Board of Directors of Grasim has approved the proposed merger of the Aditya Birla Chemicals (India) Limited (ABCIL), another Aditya Brila Group company, with Grasim. Grasim’s Board of Directors approved the swap ratio of 1 ...
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The Cotton Association of India (CAI) has downwardly revised the country’s cotton output for the ongoing season 2014-15 to 397 lakh bales of 170 kg each from its December 2014 estimate of 400.25 lakh bales, a news agency reported. ...
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The Government of India has been implementing several schemes to promote handloom textile industry, including Chanderi textiles, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Textiles, said in a written ...
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The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) is actively procuring raw cotton from farmers at minimum support price (MSP) and it has procured approximately 13 lakh bales by November-end at various centres in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and ...
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The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has planned to operate 343 procurement centres in 92 districts spread across 11 cotton growing states in the country, during the ongoing cotton season that began on October 1, 2014, Minister of State of ...
All India seed cotton arrivals have picked up to approximately 100,000 bales per day and the quality is good in all the states, informs the fortnightly report from the Indian Cotton Federation. At the moment and there is not much of ...
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A new polypropylene plant will come up at IndianOil’s Paradip Refinery Project complex at Paradip in India’s eastern coastal state of Odisha. Foundation for the Rs 3150 crore polypropylene plant was laid by Minister of State ...
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Trident Limited, the flagship company of US$ 1 billion Indian business conglomerate—The Trident Group, has inaugurated the world’s largest terry towel plant and also laid the foundation stone of its Composite Textile project in ...
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The rains have been abundant in most of the cotton growing areas. However, in certain parts of Rajasthan and Haryana, there may have been some damages to the cotton crop, informs the latest fortnightly report from the Indian Cotton ...
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Quoting trade sources, the Indian Cotton Federation (ICF) says, if agro climatic conditions are favourable, Indian cotton production could reach above 400 lakh (40 million) bales in the 2014-15 season and that overall acreage may jump by ...
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