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PILOT-SCALE PRODUCTION

Rallis India and Bio-Gene announce ‘Flavocide’

production milestone

Rallis India Ltd., a subsidiary of cide’s’ registration process and
Tata Chemicals and Australia’s Bio- future commercial production,”
Gene Technology Ltd., have success- the company said.
fully completed pilot-scale production
of ‘Flavocide’ insecticide. Dr. Gyanendra Shukla,
Managing Director & CEO of
The successful pilot-scale produc- Rallis India said, “With a long-
tion of ‘Flavocide’ by Rallis marks a standing history of agrochemi-
milestone in the production of this novel cals manufacturing and strategic
insecticide, which is derived from a partnerships with global custo-
naturally occurring plant compound, a mers, Rallis is committed to
press note from Rallis stated. contractors relating to the synthesis of supporting the development and com-
‘Flavocide’. Rallis was chosen by Bio- mercialisation of nextgen sustainable
‘Flavocide’ is a nature-identical Gene for its proven ability to produce solutions for the crop protection and
product based on Flavesone, a natu- agrochemical products at high quality allied sectors. While Rallis does not
rally occurring plant compound pre- and yield standards. “The pilot-scale expect the business to be material at this
sent in some eucalypts. Bio-Gene has production demonstrates that ‘Flavo- stage, we look forward to continuing
developed a proprietary process to syn- cide’ can be consistently manufactured to work closely with Bio-Gene to enable
thesise the molecule and produce it in at a pre-commercial scale, meeting the the successful global commercialisa-
commercial quantities. Bio-Gene owns necessary quality benchmarks. This tion of Flavocide-based solutions over
all intellectual property created by its paves the way for advancing ‘Flavo- the next few years.”

OVERSEAS INVESTMENT
Egyptian Government says Indian fi rm exploring

$60-mn carbon black facility

The Egyptian Government is in talks
with an Indian carbon black manufac-
turer to establish a $60-mn production
plant in the Arab country, according
to statements issued by the Egyptian
Commercial Service (ECS) on its social
media accounts. ECS is the Egyptian
government trade promotion organisation.

ECS said its head and Minister
Plenipotentiary Mr. Yahya Elwathik
Bellah A. Nabih, held a series of mee-
tings with executives from major In-
dian companies on the sidelines of the a leading carbon black manufacturer, Egypt to explore potential sites for the
India-Africa Business Conference in which remained unnamed, to explore plant. Birla Carbon, the world’s largest
New Delhi recently. the potential for setting up a facility in producer and supplier of carbon black,
Egypt. The posts didn’t name the Indian currently operates a manufacturing faci-
It said discussions were held with company but said a delegation will visit lity in Egypt in Alexandria.

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