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LONG-TERM PARTNERSHIP
ACME inks deal to supply green ammonia to Japan’s

IHI Corporation

Gurugram-based renewable energy
fi rm, ACME Group, and Japan’s heavy
industry group, IHI Corporation, have
signed an offtake pact for supply of
400,000 metric tonnes of green ammonia.
The product will be made at ACME’s
1.2-million-tonnes per year green
hydrogen and ammonia project being
developed at Gopalpur in Odisha with
a total investment of $5-bn.

Under the agreement, ACME and
IHI plan to compete with the relatively
cheaper but less environment-friendly
blue ammonia supply with the active
support and incentives being offered is already among the most competitive in country is well positioned to develop
by the government under the National the world,” Mr. Singh said, adding that renewable resources and produce com-
Green Hydrogen Mission and the State the country would be one of the largest petitive green molecules for export and
Government of Odisha, a joint state- manufacturers of the products globally. domestic consumption, according to
ment of the companies said. The term Japan and other developed countries President and Director, Acme Group,
sheet was signed by ACME founder and have huge requirements for green Mr. Ashwani Dudeja. The company
Chairman Mr. Manoj Upadhyay and hydrogen and green ammonia, which India is also working with many potential FOUR POINT SUSPENSION CENTRIFUGE
IHI’s President and CEO Mr. Hiroshi shall be able to supply at most competi- customers in India to supply green RPM 2800
Ide in the presence of Power and tive rates, Mr. Singh added. hydrogen and ammonia, it said. G FORCE : 870
New & Renewable Energy Minister
Mr. R. K. Singh; Mr. Bhupinder Singh The company is developing green Ambassador Suzuki urged the early
Bhalla, Secretary, MNRE, and Mr. Hiroshi hydrogen and ammonia projects in signing of the Green Hydrogen and
Suzuki, Ambassador of Japan to India, India, Oman and the US with an aim to Green Ammonia Joint Declaration
in New Delhi recently. have a portfolio of 10-million tonnes of Intent involving the Ministry of
per year of green ammonia or equiva- Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan 43
The term sheet covers the supply lent hydrogen/derivatives by 2032. The and the MNRE.
of 0.4-mtpa of green ammonia from REPUBLIC DAY PARADE
phase-1 of the Odisha project on a long-
term basis. The fi rst phase is likely to CSIR highlights purple revolution
start by 2027. The two companies are through lavender cultivation in J&K
seeking to partner across the renewable
ammonia value chain from production The Republic Day tableau of the variety of lavender suitable for cul-
to logistics. Council of Scientifi c & Industrial tivation in temperate regions of J&K
Research (CSIR) highlighted the un- and provided free saplings and end-to-
The ammonia will be used in power leashing of a “purple revolution” ushe- end agri-technologies to farmers and
generation and other industrial uses to red through lavender cultivation in also installed distillation units for es-
decarbonise operations, the Ministry of Jammu & Kashmir. The tableau also sential oil extraction in several regions
New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) showcased India’s fi rst women-friendly, of J&K. The success of lavender culti-
said in a statement. “India’s cost of mak- compact, electric tractor developed vation in J&K earned it the sobriquet,
ing green hydrogen and green ammonia by CSIR. CSIR developed an elite ‘purple revolution’.

128 Chemical Weekly February 6, 2024

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