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The plant will have a capacity of Dr. T. Natarajan, IAS, Managing our world-leading technologies and
600 metric tons per day (mtpd) of weak Director, GNFC, said, “At present, we project delivery competence, we can
nitric acid and will be one of the India’s are operating two nitric acid plants help to ensure nutrition for millions of
largest nitric acid facilities. The plant licensed by Thyssenkrupp Uhde. The people through resource-effi cient, low-
will be equipped with Uhde’s EnviNOx third plant will enhance the capacity emission fertiliser production.”
technology to reduce greenhouse gas and fulfi l the downstream requirement
emissions by eliminating nitrogen to support ‘Make in India Campaign’ The project will be carried out by
oxides from nitric acid production. with commitment to environment con- Thyssenkrupp Uhde’s local subsidiary
servations.” in India, which is a leading EPC and
The two fi rms have been collabo- engineering consultancy offering solu-
rators over past three decades having Ms. Nadja Håkansson, CEO of tions across different sectors such as
partnered in several projects, parti- Thyssenkrupp Uhde, said, “We are de- petrochemical and refi nery, fertilisers,
cularly in the nitric acid sector. The lighted to further strengthen our long- cryogenic storages and others. It has
WNA-I as well as WNA-II plants were standing collaboration with GNFC and executed more than 850 projects in the
also licensed by Thyssenkrupp Uhde. support their growth plans. Thanks to last four decades.

INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA COLLABORATION

CSIR-IIIM to partner with Hapico Industries for

biopesticide development

The CSIR-Indian Institute of
Integrative Medicine (CSIR-IIIM),
Jammu, has signed a Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU) with Hapico
Industries to jointly develop novel
biopesticides.

The MoU was signed by Dr. Zabeer
Ahmed, Director, CSIR-IIIM, and
Mr. Shabeer Ahmed, Managing Direc-
tor, Hapico Industries, in the presence
of Dr. Asha Chaubey, Senior Principal
Scientist & Head, FMB Division;
Dr. Saurabh Saran, Principal Scientist,
FMB; and Dr. Love Sharma, Scientist,
RMBD & IST. Hapico Industries is
based in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir solutions. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Shabeer Ahmed, Managing
and provides bio-organic inputs for the Dr. Ahmed reaffi rmed the commit- Director, Hapico Industries, said,
agriculture sector. ment of CSIR-IIIM to the transla- “By leveraging CSIR-IIIM’s scienti-
tional and sustainable approach in fi c expertise, Hapico aims to develop
As per a press note, the partner- biopesticide development and provid- innovative, sustainable solutions
ship aims to address the “detrimen- ing industrial interface to the tech- that align with the evolving market
tal impact of chemical pesticides on nologies emanating from the collab- demands”.
human health and the environment”. oration, ensuring direct benefi ts for
farmers across the country. Dr. Chaubey said that the focus
The partners will look to harness of the collaboration would be on for-
the potential of medicinal and aro- He also expressed confi dence in mulating a biopesticide derived from
matic plants for developing inno- achieving the project objectives with- a potent indigenous microbial strain
vative and sustainable biopesticide in the stipulated timeline. identifi ed by CSIR-IIIM.

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