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AROMA CHEMICALS MILESTONE

IFRA and FICCI sign MOU during 3rd Fragrance Reliance’s Jamnagar refi nery completes 25 years

Business Summit of operations

The International Fragrance “This summit was an opportunity to Fragrance Business Summit is its third Reliance Industries Ltd.’s (RIL’s) When RIL’s founder Chairman India’s total refi ning capacity, and com-
Association (IFRA) took part in the 3rd discuss sustainable growth and inno- such engagement. fi rst-ever refi nery at Jamnagar has com- Dhirubhai Ambani was offered land pletely transformed the barren region
International Fragrance Business Summit vation. By working together, we can pleted 25 years of operations. in the barren and desolate region off into a bustling industrial hub.
hosted by the Federation of Indian enhance consumer protection and sup- “The signing of the MoU between Jamnagar, near a sleepy village called
Chambers of Commerce and Industry port the development of the fragrance IFRA and FICCI is a milestone in fos- The refi nery, launched on December Motikhavdi, leading project consultants What started as a state-of-the-art
(FICCI), in collaboration with CSIR- industry in India and beyond.” tering stronger relationships between 28, 1999, turned India from a fuel- had advised him against investing in refi nery with a petrochemical complex
Central Institute of Medicinal and the global fragrance community and defi cit nation to a self-suffi cient one the desert-like region that did not have at Jamnagar in 1999, has today emerged
Aromatic Plants (CSIR-CMAP), Lucknow, The event brought together leaders India,” said Mr. Hans Holger Gliewe, and later into an exporter of gasoline roads, electricity, or even suffi cient world’s largest single-location manu-
Uttar Pradesh on October 25, 2024. and experts from the fragrance indus- Chairman, IFRA. “It symbolises our and gasoil to Europe and the US. drinking water. They had warned that facturing complex spread across 25,000
try to explore topics such as enhancing shared commitment to advancing safe- mobilising manpower, materials, tech- acres. In the last three decades, Jam-
The summit focused on the Indian economic growth through sustainable ty, sustainability, capacity and inno- At the time of its conception, many nical experts and every other input in nagar underwent three phases of ex-
fragrance industry, exploring opportu- development practices, emerging market vation in the fragrance industry in all experts had said it would be impossible for such wilderness would require extra- pansion. Today, the Jamnagar refi nery
nities for sustainable practices, on opportunities for India, and harmonising corners of the world.” The summit an Indian company to set up the world’s ordinary efforts. However, from 1996 complex houses some of the world’s
how to build fragrance-relevant skills fragrance safety standards. also highlighted technological innova- largest refi nery in three years. But Reli- to 1999, he and his team went on to create largest units such as the Fluidised Cata-
locally, and on harmonization with tions shaping the future of the Indian ance managed to achieve that in a record an engineering marvel at Jamnagar. lytic Cracker (FCC), coker, alkylation,
global standards to improve consumer The summit also featured Memo- fragrance sector, including skills deve- time of just 33 months, notwithstanding paraxylene, polypropylene, Refi nery
protection. randum of Understanding (MoU) ex- lopment – particularly in the fi eld of the lack of infrastructure and a severe The fi rst private-sector refi nery of Off-Gas Cracker (ROGC), and petcoke
change between IFRA and FICCI, perfumery, something also supported cyclone that had hit Jamnagar then. India single-handedly added 25% to gasifi cation plants.
“India is a rising player in the global building upon IFRA-FICCI’s existing by IFRA’s support of the Hindu
fragrance sector and is a leading source work together. IFRA was a co-founder College Perfumery Course – and the GREENFIELD PROJECT
of key fragrance ingredients,” said of the FICCI Fragrance Task Force, further progress in CIMAP’s sustain- BPCL begins pre-project activities for proposed
Ms. Martina Bianchini, President, IFRA. and IFRA’s participation in the FICCI able aroma clusters.

TRADING TROUBLES refi nery in Andhra Pradesh
Govt. starts countervailing duty probe on calcium Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. impact assessment, basic design engi-
(BPCL) has announced the commence- neering package, front end engineering
carbonate masterbatch imports from Vietnam ment of pre-project activities for its design, etc.
greenfi eld refi nery-cum-petrochemical
The Directorate General of Trade India from Vietnam at subsidised prices of the different provinces and munici- complex on the east coast in Andhra BPCL is India’s third largest oil
Remedies (DGTR) has initiated a coun- in signifi cant quantities for a prolonged palities in which the producers/expor- Pradesh. The estimated cost of the pro- refi ner behind State-owned Indian Oil
tervailing duty probe into increased period, causing material injury to it. ters are located. Countervailing duty is a ject is Rs. 6,100-crore, the company Corporation (IOC) and Reliance Indus-
imports of calcium carbonate fi ller They have also alleged that the pro- country-specifi c duty, which is imposed informed in a stock exchange fi ling. tries Ltd. It currently owns refi neries at
masterbatch from Vietnam following a ducers/exporters have benefi tted from to safeguard domestic industry against Mumbai (12-mtpa), Kochi in Kerala
complaint from domestic players. the actionable subsidies provided by unfair trade subsidies provided by the The pre-project activities will in- tifi cation & acquisition, preparation of (15.5-mtpa) and Bina in Madhya Pradesh
various levels in the Government of local governments of the exporting clude various initial studies, land iden- detailed feasibility report, environment (7.8-mtpa).
Compounds and Masterbatch Manu- Vietnam, including the Governments nations.
facturers Association of India and Paradeep Phosphates’ Goa plants resume operations
Masterbatch Manufacturers Associa- Toagosei sets up new subsidiary
tion had fi led a petition before the Paradeep Phosphates Ltd. (PPL) catalysts in the primary and secon- plant. PPL is primarily engaged in the
Directorate on behalf of the domestic in India has resumed production at its ammonia dary reformers, as well as in the low manufacture of urea, di-ammonium
industry for initiation of the probe. Japanese company, Toagosei Co., has strategic procurement opportunities. and urea plants in Goa, the com- temperature shift (LTS) converters. phosphate (DAP), complex fertilisers
announced plans to establish a subsid- The new subsidiary, Toagosei India pany informed on December 26, 2024. During September 2024, the company of NPK grades, and zypmite (a gyp-
The DGTR in a notifi cation has iary in India, targeting growth in the Pvt. Ltd., will be based in Ahmedabad Earlier on December 1, the company had to shut down the ammonia and sum-based product), with manufactur-
said that the applicants have alleged IT and automotive sectors by lever- and is expected to be operational by had informed about planned shutdown urea plants at Goa for a week due to ing facilities in Paradeep (Odisha) and
that the product is being imported into aging India’s economic expansion and March 2025. of the plants in order to replace the breakdown of equipment in the urea Zuari Nagar (Goa).

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