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China Strives to Bolster the Specialty Chemicals Market
Posted on 06 February, 2010 | Tags: Guest Column
In late 2008, the Chinese Government embarked on Four-trillion Yuan (USD 586 billion) Stimulus Plans to finance programs in ten major measures over the next two years, of which USD 219.6 billion was allocated for infrastructure and urban power grid and USD 146.4 billion for disaster rebuilding. Both these categories require a huge input of specialty chemicals. In addition to some new regulations on the industry, the package is forecast to have a huge impact on the Chinese specialty chemicals market.The global financial crisis is expected to have a negative impact on the global and Chinese specialty chemicals markets. However, the Chinese market may have a comparatively higher growth rate, due to the huge potential offered by the domestic demand. According to the Chinese Chemical Industry Yearbook, sales revenue for the specialty chemicals market was USD 124.5 billion in 2008, which amounted to 12.9 percent of the total chemicals market. Till 2012, the Chinese specialty chemicals market is likely to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 12.9 percent, which is higher than 10.7 percent, the average growth rate of the Chinese chemical market. With this high growth, China is likely to acquire an increasingly more market share in
Instrumentation Manufacturers Look Forward to New Technologies in the Market
Posted on 02 February, 2010 | Tags:
Stuart WakefieldDirector, M/S Malvern Aimil Instruments Ltd. How different is the demand of technologies in India as compared with the developed nations?To some degree it depends upon the industry sector that you reside in, but on the whole it's not so different. Sectors such as Bio Technology are relatively new to India and as a result demand for measurement technologies in areas such as protein Characterization, are strong. Having said that, established industries such as Cement manufacture, also have a healthy demand for new technologies. This year has seen several new cement plants come on line, which are amongst the most automated and advanced in the world. I think the biggest difference is that many Indians companies still have a requirement to invest in routine measurement techniques as opposed to more newer and exotic technologies.India is a very dynamic and fastest growing market in the world. What is the response India Malvern Aimil has received since the joint venture came through in 2008? I am delighted to say extremely positive and above our expectations. As an example a key objectives of the joint venture was to increase the support to new and existing customers. Demand for our customer training
Schneider Partners with Wipro in Industrial Automation.
Posted on 02 February, 2010 | Tags:
Schneider Electric, global specialist in energy management and IT major Wipro Ltd has recently joined hands in the field of Industrial Automation. Though business models for both the organizations are different, but the core strengths compliment each other. "Basic strength of Schneider Electric is in developing innovative solutions along with deployment and partnering with Wipro would help Schneider to consult, conceptualize, design and deploy the innovative solutions to provide value addition to customers," informs Pradeep Karnik, Director Industrial Automation, Schneider Electric (India) Pvt. Ltd. India is one of the fastest emerging markets. With the depth of automation still limited, the opportunities are huge. Considering products, solutions, services, installed base services etc, estimated market size is more than Rs. 3500 crores. Wipro will market the products that include Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) in India. Talking about the demand of MES solutions in Mining, Mineral Processing and Metal industries Karnik sees the demand rapidly increasing considering the requirement of delay management, tracking etc with high growth in infrastructure sector. Demand of automation technologies is expected to increase in metals, mining minerals that include cement, water and wastewater, food and beverages and pharmaceuticals industries. The concept
Seamless Solution for Process and Hybrid Applications
Posted on 02 February, 2010 | Tags:
Chemical Industry is very raw material centric industry. The final product is a composition of various raw materials. For any manufacturer the challenge is to have the right product at the right time with minimal wastage of raw material and energy consumption. In any chemical process, you would have batch production comprising of mixture of two or more raw materials. The emphasis is on how quickly the production units are able to switch between products with minimum wastage of raw materials during production switch.Conventional DCS were designed to handle process, which was analog intensive, but there has been not much of development with respect to the automation platform. The automation platforms of the conventional DCS compared to the modern automation systems are less open, slow and have limited capacity for historical data. The basic endeavor for any automation system is to drive operational excellence. As a solution provider GE Fanuc is focused to increase the yield with improved quality, decrease the scrap and improve production efficiency. Another key focus area is to bring down the total cost of ownership by optimizing the assets. GE Fanuc for long time has had wide range of products catering to the requirement of hybrid
New Intrinsic Safety Solution on the Way to Standardization
Posted on 02 February, 2010 | Tags:
Dynamic Arc Recognition and Termination (DART) is the new buzzword for the process industry. This is a new technology developed by Pepperl+Fuchs that has met widespread recognition within the process control scene. Experts consider DART to be one of the most important innovations to pave the way for completely new intrinsic safety applications. Recently, interested process control experts met at the Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Braunschweig, Germany to discuss the technical details of the new approach to intrinsic safety and agree on co-ordinated efforts for its introduction to the global process market.DART is a dynamically acting, intrinsically safe electric circuit and represents a completely new approach to eliminating the strict power limitations of today's applications in explosion hazardous areas. One major factor along the way is the fact that procedures for IS certification for DART are available, but they still need to be proven for introduction into IEC standards.Present solutions for intrinsically safe electric circuits strictly limit the power available to operate field devices inside explosion hazardous areas in order to prevent sparks that are hot enough to trigger an ignition. This new technology follows a completely different approach and is defined as a "dynamically acting intrinsically safe
Chemtech Foundation will, for the 25th time, bring together the entire cross-section of India’s Chemical and Process Industry from Suppliers to Sellers to Manufacturers across Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Fertilizers and other Process Industries. Attend and experience world-class conferences, great networking opportunities, and state-of-the-art technology exhibits from national and international players.
23-26 Feb 2011,
at the Bombay Exhibition Center,
NSE Complex, Goregaon,
Mumbai, India
Meet and network with the Who’s Who of India’s Chemical and Process Industry
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