Europe’s cement and steel sectors will benefit from a greater range of advanced refractory products, with the addition of Julien Soum to Anderman Ceramics’ business development team in France.

Less than 20 per cent of the wastewater discharged by households, and 60 per cent of industrial wastewater, is treated in India. This situation has to change, say SHISHAM PRIYADARSHINI and AMISH SHROFF.

Sanjeev Sanyal, Principal Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, recently unveiled the 4th edition of the FICCI-PwC Strategy& India Manufacturing Barometer (IMB) survey, which as in previous years, reveals that India continues to remain an economic bright spot. As per the United Nations, the world economy expanded by only 2.2 per cent in 2016 — the slowest growth rate since the 2009 recession. The outlook for the Indian economy and its core sectors continues to remain upbeat

Effective and fast-track implementation of decisions taken by the governments of India and Bangladesh has resulted in enhancement of trade and investment between the two nations, said Veena Sikri, Former Ambassador of India to Bangladesh, at a FICCI seminar on ‘Doing Business with Bangladesh’.

FICCI’s latest quarterly survey has reported a decline in the outlook for the sector for Q-4 of 2016-17 due to rising cost of production, which has impacted the competitiveness of the sector in the last few months.

Domestic coal gas can be used as a feedstock for producing urea and other chemicals that can help reduce the country's import bill by $10 billion in five years and cut carbon emissions, a top official has said.

Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu has underlined the need for developing sustainable infrastructure and creating opportunities for moving to the next level of a sustainable paradigm.

Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu has underlined the need for developing sustainable infrastructure and creating opportunities for moving to the next level of a sustainable paradigm. According to the minister, the effort should be to “grow while preserving” the fragile environment. The industry should try and make sustainable plastics for developing infrastructure.

A knowledge and strategy paper on ‘Sustainable Infrastructure with Plastics’ has been released at the national conference organised by FICCI jointly with Department of C&PC, and Organization of Plastics Processors of India (OPP) at the FICCI headquarters in New Delhi.