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Boosting road quality

Boosting road quality

Ooms India, a subsidiary of a Dutch multinational company with 100 years history, is one of IndiaÂ’s major processor of SBS Polymer Modified Bitumen (PMB), CRMB and Asphalt Reinforcement Interlayer (ARI) including GlasGrid and SAMI. With plants located at Chennai, Mumbai and Kosi (Mathura), OomsÂ’ PMB has been used for construction of international airports of Bangalore, Hyderabad and Delhi, Formula 1 race Track, Bandra-Worli Sea Link and hundreds of kilometres of roads all over India. OomsÂ’ PMB h

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Expanding horizons

Expanding horizons

Tata BlueScope Building Products launched Rajasthan’s first and India’s eighth ‘LYSAGHT® Solution Center’. The company appointed Sunrise Engineers as an authorised LYSAGHT Solution Center in Neemrana, Rajasthan.LYSAGHT® Solution Center is an initiative towards the company’s sustained efforts to expand its reach to meet growing customer needs for the LYSAGHT® products across India

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Supporting growth

Supporting growth

India has launched the world’s largest programme of public-private partnerships in road construction. The goal is to build as many as 7,000 km of new trunk roads per year. One of these projects was implemented on National Highway 1. NH-1 is one of the oldest and longest highways in India, running from New Delhi in a north-westerly dire­ction, passing through Amritsar and continuing into neigh­bouring Pakistan. Soma Enterprise has been commi­ssioned by the National Highways Authority of India to

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Gujarat Solar Park bags award

Gujarat Solar Park bags award

Wärtsilä India conferred the 10th Wärtsilä-Mantosh Sondhi Award on Gujarat Power Corpo­ration (Gujarat Solar Park)
for their significant contribution to the Indian energy sector. DJ Pandian, Principal Secretary, Energy & Petrochemicals, Govt of Gujarat, accepted the award from Björn Rosengren, President and CEO, Wärtsilä Corporation.

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New MoS, Road Transport & Highways

New MoS, Road Transport & Highways

Sarvey Sathyanarayana has taken over as Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways. Sathyanarayana is Member of Parliament, (Lok Sabha) from Malkajgiri (Andhra Pradesh) constituency. Born on April 4, 1954 in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh), Sathyanarayana did his graduation from Osmania University, Hyderabad, and did Master in Law from Evening College of Law, Abids, Hyderabad. Sathyanarayana was elected to the 14th Lok Sabha in 2004 and re-elected to the 15th Lok Sabha (second term) in the yea

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New chairman at PPT

New chairman at PPT

After a break, since the then chairman GJ Rao left in April, Paradip Port Trust (PPT) has got a new boss. SS Mishra has taken over as the Chairman of the port, who was Member (Traffic) of the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI). Till Mishra taking over the charge, Deputy Chairman SAC Bose has been functioning as the acting chairman.

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A powerful visionary

A powerful visionary

Anil Sardana is the Managing Director of Tata Power since February 2011. Beginning August 2007 till January 31, 2011, he was the Managing Director of Tata Teleservices (TTSL) and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra). Prior to August 2007, he worked in Tata Power for more than five years.

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Integral leadership

Integral leadership

Sumant Sinha is the Chairman and CEO of ReNew Power. He brings his vast experience in the Indian renewable ene­rgy space, international finance, com­bined with unique operating experience to the firm. Prior to setting up ReNew Power, Sumant was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Suzlon Energy. Sumant was responsible for refinancing Suzlon’s entire outstanding debt worth $3 billion, raised an additional $800 million and restructured $500 million worth of foreign convertible bonds in an extremel

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Monorail monopoly

Monorail monopoly

Kanesan Veluppillai started his career with Credit Corporation (Malaysia) Berhad in 1984. From there, he moved on to lead the communications function at Master-Carriage Sdn Bhd as Group Communications Director. In 2000, Kanesan was appointed Group Director, Corporate Communications and Public Affairs at DRB-HICOM Berhad, a leading Malaysian conglomerate with core businesses in the Automotive, Services and Property & Infrastructure sectors.

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Every new technology comes with new benefits for users

Every new technology comes with new benefits for users

It’s not a question of capability but the matter of having the mindset of adapting new technology and enjoying its benefit over the long term, says Sami Korpela, Country Manager, Konecranes India, in an email interview.The latest trend in port cranes is to have most reliable and efficient cranes and no doubt automation and crane condition monitoring have become very impor­tant to manage the overall crane operations efficiently.