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Yes, true. It doesn't have to be at the center of a 7000 acre land. Ideally, it should be close to a highway where a lot of commercial traffic passes through. There are other parameters which have to be taken in to account. From a facilities location optimization POV, centroid is the best place to locate. It has to be a weighted centoid. It is a very simple optimization problem. A very rough approximation will do as such.
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nandakumar wrote:It might as well be in one corner and only that land need be converted to industrial purposes. A classic analogy is a sugar mill which crushes cane from a radius of 25 to 40 km. It can be done for a project involving paddy straw, as well.
@nandakumar ji, please see the above. That was a reply to your post. By the way, sugarcane processing is a different beast.
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Garment companies shift from China to India
Rajesh Chandramouli | TNN | Updated: Sep 4, 2020, 13:21 IST

CHENNAI: When German leisure wear brand Marc O’Polo called its Indian vendor Warsaw International to place an order for supply of some jerseys, proprietor Raja Shanmugam knew this order was different. The same product was supplied by his competitor in China to Marc O’Polo all these years. “We have a huge order. It’s a litmus test for us and the country. If we crack it, then gates open for more global brands to increase their India sourcing,” Shanmugam said.

Shanmugam, who also heads the Tirupur Exporters Association, said. “I expect a 25% increase in sourcing this season.”

P Nataraj, MD of KPR Mills, a leading garment exporter and among the largest yarn exporters from India, echoed similar views. “Our buyers have told us that this year sourcing from India will be much higher than last. We will know about the actual size of increased orders in a couple of weeks. We are just opening up after the lockdown,” he said.

Similarly, Carter’s — once the world’s largest baby wear brand — has asked SP Apparels in neighbouring Avinashi in western Tamil Nadu to work on developing a new fabric (using man-made fibres) as it wants to shift significantly from China to India. “Carter’s is working with us to develop a new fabric. If it clicks, then it’s a huge opportunity,” said P Sunder Rajan, MD of SP Apparels.
“Beating China is tough as they have the scale, but looks like a beginning has been made this time. We will need a lot of support on labour, financial and infrastructure from the government,” Rajan added. Industry body Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) too is chipping in.

“We are in negotiations with Taiwanese and Korean entities for a joint venture, which will work on developing the fabric with man-made fibre. We are very strong in natural fibres, but the opportunities in man-made fibre is humongous. We need assistance, which is why we are looking at joint ventures for fabric development. The talks are progressing well,” said A Sakthivel, chairman of AEPC. The contours of the discussion are to get the fabric ready for sports wear and lounge wear.
Garment exports from Tirupur dropped to Rs 25,000 crore for the year ended March 2020 from Rs 26,000 crore in the previous year as the Covid pandemic wiped away most March exports. The target was to export garments worth Rs 28,000 crore. Domestic sales were flat at Rs 25,000 crore for the fiscal. The town employs 6 lakh workers, half of whom are from other states.


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Politics is the core of such opportunities. Chinis got it because they were on the US side against the Russians. We have to drive the politics.

It is VERY important to be seen as a ally of US, Europe, Japan, Sk & Taiwan.

US & European companies will like to source from "politically safe" countries, once things are seen hitting the fan... Otherwise it is not easy to dislodge China, because no company wants to go through the hassle of finding another supplier, if the Chini ones are good enough and cheap.
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Vayutuvan wrote:Yes, true. It doesn't have to be at the center of a 7000 acre land. Ideally, it should be close to a highway where a lot of commercial traffic passes through. There are other parameters which have to be taken in to account. From a facilities location optimization POV, centroid is the best place to locate. It has to be a weighted centoid. It is a very simple optimization problem. A very rough approximation will do as such.
Thanks. That's what I thought too. But if you recall, the earlier post sort of implied, or at least to my mind, a end-use reclassification of land had to be in the centre with all the implications for a whole bunch of surrounding agricultural lands too will claiming a similar privilege which the Government might find difficult to resist lest it be accused of favouritism.
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nandakumar wrote:
Vayutuvan wrote:Yes, true. It doesn't have to be at the center of a 7000 acre land. Ideally, it should be close to a highway where a lot of commercial traffic passes through. There are other parameters which have to be taken in to account. From a facilities location optimization POV, centroid is the best place to locate. It has to be a weighted centoid. It is a very simple optimization problem. A very rough approximation will do as such.
Thanks. That's what I thought too. But if you recall, the earlier post sort of implied, or at least to my mind, a end-use reclassification of land had to be in the centre with all the implications for a whole bunch of surrounding agricultural lands too will claiming a similar privilege which the Government might find difficult to resist lest it be accused of favouritism.
That is exactly true. Agri land must be protected and only used for crops. If that does not happen, land could become a kind of "Bank" where black money is parked. This will be very bad for food production. Likewise hills must be protected from land investors who want to build all sorts of resorts.

I am strongly in favor of economic development, factores, resorts and housing for people. But is must all be planned, with sufficient infrastructure in place. Finally, land must not be used as an investment opportunity. Manufacturing plots must be readily available with infrastructure in place, at low prices. In China you do not get to own the land, only the building. The land lease runs out after 25 years in some places. I think this is a good strategy, as the factory owner can reduce the investments. At the same time, land is freed up, when the factory shuts down, or need to expand. If a factory wants to expand, then just let it move to a larger plot. The factory buildings are usually not very costly.

In the current senario, factory owners have hard time finding land, land is expensive, lacks infrastructure. On top of this they have to pay bribes front, left and right.
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L&T evaluating tech for CO2-to-methanol plant.

Last month, L&T and NTPC announced a partnership to put up a demonstration plant to convert carbon dioxide into methanol. This small step, L&T hopes, will mean a giant leap into the green fuels of the future.

Subramanian Sarma, Wholetime Director, L&T, who heads the company’s hydrocarbon engineering business, points out that there were three aspects to the conversion of carbon dioxide to liquid fuels like methanol. First, the capture of the gas, which is not a big deal, as technologies are well in hand. The second, generating hydrogen through climate-friendly ways, which basically means electrolysis of water using solar power.
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Here again, the technology is not unknown, except that it needs to be improved to enhance efficiency. And finally, catalytic reduction of CO2 to methanol.

“We are evaluating technologies for each of the three segments to adopt them into the demonstration plant,” Sarma told BusinessLine in a recent chat. He said the company could consider involving technology partners.

CO2-to-liquids (or ‘emission-to-liquids’) is an emerging area globally and there is a huge market out there for one who perfects the technology. Quoting from published material, Sarma said that typically a 500 MW coal-fired power plant will annually yield methanol worth ₹6,000 crore to ₹8,000 crore, at the current market prices.

“There is a big market for methanol,” Sarma said, noting that the methanol produced through green pathways, such as that being attempted by the L&T-NTPC venture, would command a premium in the market.

Methanol can be blended with petrol and used in vehicles, but the chemical is also feedstock for a variety of products – solvents, resins, silicone, dietary supplements, acrylic sheets and a range of fuels such as dimethyl ether (DME) and oxymethyl ether (OME). It can also be used as fuel to run ships.

Sarma stressed that it was still early days and cautioned against over-optimism. “Much depends on the success of the demonstration plant,” he said. Typically, he noted, emerging technologies work well in labs and pilot plants but pose challenges while scaling up to commercial levels.

L&T signed a memorandum of understanding with NTPC because both companies had been working independently on clean technologies and hence thought “why not work together”. Sarma said that partnership was open, non-exclusive, but the understanding was that all the work relating to CO2 to fuels would be done under the collaboration. He said the demonstration plant could come up in one-and-a-half years.

Asked L&T was spurred into this area by a view that the hydrocarbons business is on a decline globally, Sarma pointed out that even global oil majors were diversifying into renewable energy and “it would be stupid not to take cognizance of what is happening elsewhere in the world.”

Very few plants
There is but only one commercial scale plant in the world that produces methanol from carbon dioxide—the George Olah plant in Iceland, owned by a company called Carbon Recycling International (CRI).

CRI literature notes that there are two pathways of converting the gas into methanol. One, is to reduce CO2 to Carbon monoxide (CO) and then reduce CO with Hydrogen to make methanol. The second is direct hydrogenation of CO2 with Hydrogen over a metal oxide catalyst. The Iceland plant follows the second method.

“Perhaps the most consequential lesson learned from this (Iceland) enterprise is that producing methanol from CO2 need not be as expensive as most experts had estimated,” says CRI in its website, noting that the production of green methanol would only cost twice as much as natural gas derived methanol.

Indian experience
While even a pilot plant for CO2 conversion into fuels is yet to come, notable progress has been made in the labs.

For instance, Prof Vivek Polshettiwar of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research has developed a number of catalysts for the process such as nano gold, nano solid acids and nano silica, which have the potential to replace metallic catalysts, which are less stable.
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Very interesting and potentially important work.

I have not kept up on biological reduction mechanisms but solid phase enzyme machinery obtained from an extremophile might be promising.
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why methanol though?
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The L&T person is correct in that all the chemistry is well known (it is typically used in undergraduate chemistry demos). It is very good to develop R&D and engineering capacity for such demonstration units, but CO2-to-methanol is not happening anytime soon on a commercial scale.

Methanol is a very low-cost commodity (roughly $300/ton or 30c/kg). There is a very efficient and cheap route to it (via syngas) that can use either methane (natural gas, the current option) or biomass gasification as feedstock. You get the CO and excess amounts of H2 in one shot, from which you can make methanol cheaply.

It makes no sense anywhere in the world to produce methanol at scale by first collecting CO2 waste product, then make H2 from an electrolyzer, and then reduce CO2 to CO, then formulate an artificial syngas to convert to methanol.

Assuming 100% stoichiometric efficiency, to make a ton of methanol you need 1.38 tons of CO2 and 0.125 tons of H2. Obtaining 1.38 tons of CO2 will cost in the range of $70-$80 (for capture from a power plant) and well over $120 (for direct air capture). The cost of commercially producing H2 by electrolysis using any kind of renewable energy is in the range of $3000-6000/ton, so this will cost anywhere from $375-750. So the raw material/feedstock costs are in the range of $450-$900/ton methanol produced.

Rule of thumb: feedstock costs are usually 50-70% of the total chemical production cost. So we are looking at total production cost in the range of anywhere from $640-$1800/ton methanol for a chemical that commands a $300/ton price. And probably wise to divide this again by 0.9 (stoichiometric efficiency).

Unless electrolytic hydrogen production costs fall below $300/ton, there is absolutely no chance.

If one wants to go green with methanol, the sensible option is to produce syngas from biomass gasification instead of natural gas reforming. That technology is already there, but even that is not practiced because natural gas is so cheap....so taking "desperate" options like CO2-to-methanol is not needed at all.
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^ It might come from this obsession of painting CO2 as the original and only demon. There are much more pressing pollution problems, but "carbon neutrality" is all the rage to "save the planet." Once you factor that mentality in, it is understandable that the economics go for a toss.
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Carbon credits have fallen in price, drastically.
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Converting CO2 and H2 (from H2O) into methanol is a thermodynamically uphill process. You put far more energy into it than what you can get out. Infact the thermodynamically efficient process is the reverse, ie. burning methanol to produce CO2 and H2O

This means that the methanol thus produced is not so much a fuel but rather an energy storage media, like a battery. This is same concept as hydrogen powered vehicles. Currently Li-Ion battery technology is the best contender for energy storage.

Finally as noted earlier there are far more efficient processes for producing methanol if that is your end product.
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BHEL sets up test rig for high temperature turbine rotor used in coal-based power plants.

State-run Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has set up a facility for the manufacture of super alloy steam turbine rotors for efficient coal based thermal power plants that are needed to assess low cycle fatigue effects in rotors required for such power plants.

Improving technologies to increase the efficiency of coal based thermal power plants requires use of nickel based super alloy materials as against chrome based steels widely used now. The nickel based Alloy 617M has been selected by the Indian Advanced Ultra Super Critical (AUSC) consortium.The alloy is industrially available and the AUSC consortium has already expressed confidence in indigenous development of the alloy. However, lack of experimental data on performance of Alloy 617M rotors hinders effective usage of this alloy in the Indian AUSC power plant.

To overcome this challenge, the Department of Science and Technology under Clean Energy Research Initiative has supported a project of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited BHEL (R&D), Hyderabad for establishment of High Temperature Spin Test Rig (HTSTR).

It will be the first facility in India for experimental validation of the design of AUSC steam turbine rotor relating to creep - fatigue damage (deterioration of metals and alloys subjected to a cyclic thermo mechanical load at elevated temperature) and will also be the only one of its kind in India in terms of establishing a real size engineering experimental set-up. It will subject the turbine rotor segments of weight up to 9,000 kg to various damage conditions similar to that in the plant operation, like high temperatures up to 800 degree Celsius, high speed up to 3600 rpm, followed by long term steady state operation and controlled heating and cooling. The facility will pave the way towards Atmanirbhar Bharat in this sector.

This facility will enable design validation of 800 Mega Watts AUSC steam turbine rotors for certifying the long term performance of super alloy monometallic and bimetallic welded rotor with a total of 2,000 start-ups (hot-warm-cold) and 100,000 hours of total steady state operation. This is achieved through accelerated testing within 200 cycles and 10,000 hours respectively. A unique test protocol for accelerated testing is formulated by the BHEL team with the guidelines of ASME standards. Two rotor segments – monometallic (Alloy 617M) and bimetallic welded portions (Alloy 617M and 10 Chrome) of actual steam turbine rotor will be subjected to equivalent operating conditions over its guaranteed time line by increasing the temperatures and achieving desired thermal gradients within the rotors, during the heating and cooling operations.

This unique test protocol and its visualisation software are registered under Indian patents and copyrights act. Some of the technical highlights in the test methodology are published in national conferences.
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First for India, GSFC starts selling locally-made calcium nitrate to cut imports.

In a serious push for Atmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India), chemical compounds main Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited (GSFC) on Thursday began selling regionally made calcium nitrate — a 100-per cent imported water-soluble fertilizer.

Building up on its capabilities to make caprolactam and its by-product nitric acid, GSFC discovered financial viability to make calcium nitrate at its facility close to Vadodara. The first consignments of the locally-made calcium nitrate and boronated calcium nitrate was despatched to Solan in Himachal Pradesh and Bhavnagar in Saurashtra.

Union Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers, Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday launched the product on-line. “We identified about 79 chemicals where import substitution could take place. Of these, there are 39 chemicals, where we are 70-100 per cent dependent on imports. GSFC has identified 21 such chemicals to make in India and take a big leap to achieve the goal of Atmanirbhar Bharat,” the minister stated in his video tackle. “We are planning to move all fertiliser plants in this direction and make the fertilizer-based chemical sector self-reliant,” he added.

Calcium Nitrate is a water soluble fertiliser in order that vegetation can soak up extra vitamins. Indian consumes about 1.25 lakh tonnes of calcium nitrate price ₹225 crore per 12 months, which is totally imported and about 76 per cent of that comes from China.

Initially, GSFC will produce with capability of 5,000 tonnes each year and take it to 25,000 tonnes in a single 12 months. “A new plant has to be set up for this. Gradually, over a period of three years, we hope to cover 50 per cent of India’s market share in this product,” Arvind Agarwal, CMD, GSFC, instructed BusinessLine after the launch.

Of the 21 recognized merchandise for the import substitution, 5 together with the recently-launched methanol and calcium nitrate might be launched earlier than March 2021. “Of these 21 products, 11 are pharma and biotech intermediate products, one is commodity, one is a fertiliser and the rest are chemical products,” stated Agarwal.

Over the subsequent 30 months, the corporate appears to substitute ₹3,000-crore price of imports via these 21 merchandise. An estimated ₹2,000 crore of funding has been earmarked for it.

For financial viability to face up to Chinese value competitiveness, GSFC carried out intensive value evaluation.

“GSFC has an advantage overs. Our raw material for one plant comes from a by-product of another plant. In case of calcium nitrate, as a producer of caprolactam, nitric acid is the by-product for us, which is a major raw material for calcium nitrate. That is how the calcium nitrate cost economics worked for us. We applied such calculations for all products,” stated Agarwal.
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If true, then must say this is hugeeee & mithai time...............


Tata Group to invest Rs 5,000 crore in plant that will manufacture components for Apple: Report
Apple's contract manufacturer Foxconn already assembles the iPhone 11 at a plant in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu.


Moneycontrol News

The Tata Group will invest Rs 5,000 crore to create a facility that will manufacture components for iPhone-maker Apple.
Tata Electronics, a new entity, was allotted 500 acres by TIDCO (Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation) for the manufacturing plant at the industrial complex in Hosur, BusinessLine reported.

Tata Group’s investment in the facility might be hiked later, based on the level of sourcing, to as much as Rs 8,000 crore, the report said. Moneycontrol could not independently verify the story.

Neither the Tata Group nor the Tamil Nadu government confirmed the development as per the report. Titan Engineering and Automation (TEAL), a unit of Titan, will provide the expertise for setting up the production facility, the report said.

According to the report, the Bhoomi Pujan of the facility was held on October 27. The manufacturing plant will have 18,000 employees by October 2021, of which 90 percent will be women, the report added.


https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/busin ... 27221.html
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Is the Nokia plant in Sriperumbudur still functioning?
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In Salcomp hands right now. Will also produce Apple product parts.
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TURNS CORONAVIRUS CRISIS INTO OPPORTUNITY, BEATS CHINA IN CERAMIC TRADE
6:53 am IST on October 29, 2020 Published By Abhijit Bhatt

The world has changed a great deal since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic at the end of 2019. One aspect of this change is a shift in the way the rest of the world views China, the country where the pandemic originated. This has directly benefited the ceramic industries of India in general and Gujarat in particular.

According to those involved in the ceramic industry, many countries including Europe, America, and the Gulf which used to buy ceramic products from China have now turned to India.
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According to information, Gujarat’s Morbi is the hub of the ceramic industry in India with over 900 units contributing nearly 92 per cent of the entire country’s tile production, which comes to around 6.5 per cent of the entire world’s production.
Ceramic products worth Rs 14,000 crore are exported to various countries every year from Morbi.


“Ceramic products worth about Rs 7000 crore were exported in the first six months of the current financial year. Exports are 20% higher than last year. “Exports of Rs 13,000-13,500 crore are expected. Exports could be 30-35% higher this year than last year. Many countries are offended by China. The US has imposed anti-dumping duties on Chinese products and other countries can do the same. All this is benefiting Morbi and India’s ceramic industries”,


Nilesh Jetpariya, President of the wall tiles division of Morbi Ceramic Association, said, “Given the growing demand, the industrialists here are expanding.” Morbi currently has about 900 ceramic plants and another 60 new plants are being built. In all these plants, a total of about Rs. 3000 crore will be invested. Global buyers are relying more on the quality of Indian products than China and that is why the demands from European countries have increased.


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https://thedailyguardian.com/gujarat-tu ... mic-trade/
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Pidilite acquires Consumer & Bazaar business of Araldite in Indian Sub-Continent
https://www.deshgujarat.com/2020/10/29/ ... continent/
The Board of Pidilite Industries Limited at its meeting held on 28th October, 2020 approved a definitive agreement with Huntsman Group (USA) for acquiring 100% stake in one of their subsidiaries in India namely, Huntsman Advanced Materials Solutions Private Limited (HAMSPL).

This is for a cash consideration of approx. Rs 2100 crores, excluding customary working capital and other adjustments, subject to certain preconditions being met prior to the closing of the transaction. HAMSPL manufactures and sells Adhesives, Sealants and other products under well-known brands such as Araldite, Araldite Karpenter and Araseal in India. In the calendar year 2019, business revenue was approximately INR 400 Cr. In addition to the Indian Sub-Continent business, the acquisition includes a Trademark licence for Middle East, Africa and ASEAN countries.
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Mollick.R wrote:TURNS CORONAVIRUS CRISIS INTO OPPORTUNITY, BEATS CHINA IN CERAMIC TRADE
6:53 am IST on October 29, 2020 Published By Abhijit Bhatt

The world has changed a great deal since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic at the end of 2019. One aspect of this change is a shift in the way the rest of the world views China, the country where the pandemic originated. This has directly benefited the ceramic industries of India in general and Gujarat in particular.

According to those involved in the ceramic industry, many countries including Europe, America, and the Gulf which used to buy ceramic products from China have now turned to India.
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According to information, Gujarat’s Morbi is the hub of the ceramic industry in India with over 900 units contributing nearly 92 per cent of the entire country’s tile production, which comes to around 6.5 per cent of the entire world’s production.
Ceramic products worth Rs 14,000 crore are exported to various countries every year from Morbi.


“Ceramic products worth about Rs 7000 crore were exported in the first six months of the current financial year. Exports are 20% higher than last year. “Exports of Rs 13,000-13,500 crore are expected. Exports could be 30-35% higher this year than last year. Many countries are offended by China. The US has imposed anti-dumping duties on Chinese products and other countries can do the same. All this is benefiting Morbi and India’s ceramic industries”,


Nilesh Jetpariya, President of the wall tiles division of Morbi Ceramic Association, said, “Given the growing demand, the industrialists here are expanding.” Morbi currently has about 900 ceramic plants and another 60 new plants are being built. In all these plants, a total of about Rs. 3000 crore will be invested. Global buyers are relying more on the quality of Indian products than China and that is why the demands from European countries have increased.


Read Full Report from here//
https://thedailyguardian.com/gujarat-tu ... mic-trade/
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We are only scraping at the bottom. We have huge potential

Pretty good info for all trade
https://oec.world/
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Japan to provide financial assistance to Toyota-Tsusho, Sumida to set base in India
ET Bureau Last Updated: Nov 06, 2020, 07:15 AM IST

New Delhi: Japan will provide financial assistance to two companies Toyota-Tsusho and Sumida for setting up a manufacturing base in India, a government source said. Toyota-Tsusho is a trading arm of the Toyota group and it is looking at investment in rare earths. Sumida makes parts for auto, consumer electronics and industrial sectors.

The financial assistance will be provided under a Japanese government incentive to its companies that shift manufacturing bases out of China either back home or to India or Bangladesh.

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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/in ... content=23
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vijayk wrote:
Mollick.R wrote:TURNS CORONAVIRUS CRISIS INTO OPPORTUNITY, BEATS CHINA IN CERAMIC TRADE
6:53 am IST on October 29, 2020 Published By Abhijit Bhatt
We are only scraping at the bottom. We have huge potential

Pretty good info for all trade
https://oec.world/
Hope we maintain the momentum upwards, thanks for the link.
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X-post from from economy thread (for records of this dhagga too ...............)

Cabinet approves PLI scheme for 10 sectors worth Rs 1.46 lakh crore; auto sector gets biggest share
Total allocation under PLI may likely be of about Rs 1.46 lakh crore over five years


Lakshman Roy//Last Updated : Nov 11, 2020 01:54 PM IST | Source: Moneycontrol.com

The Union Cabinet has on November 11 approved Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for 10 sectors, sources told CNBC-Awaaz. Total allocation under PLI may likely be of about Rs 1.46 lakh crore over five years. Among sectors, auto components and automobile sectors have received the maximum incentive of Rs 57,000 crore, the sources said. Other sectors include advance cell chemistry battery, pharmaceuticals, food products and white goods.

As per the scheme, the Centre will provide incentives on additional production and will allow companies to export products made in India, they added.

(This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.)

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Vips wrote:First for India, GSFC starts selling locally-made calcium nitrate to cut imports.

Calcium Nitrate is a water soluble fertiliser in order that vegetation can soak up extra vitamins. Indian consumes about 1.25 lakh tonnes of calcium nitrate price ₹225 crore per 12 months, which is totally imported and about 76 per cent of that comes from China.

Initially, GSFC will produce with capability of 5,000 tonnes each year and take it to 25,000 tonnes in a single 12 months. “A new plant has to be set up for this. Gradually, over a period of three years, we hope to cover 50 per cent of India’s market share in this product,” Arvind Agarwal, CMD, GSFC, instructed BusinessLine after the launch.
How do they plan on being Atmanirbhar Bharat? I can understand private sector to be cautious about investing in large capacity, but I don't understand why public sector wouldn't aim for 100% import substitution of even the current demand. China has alway invested in excess capacity so they can dump outside the country. With long lead-times on new capacity this is unforgivable.
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X-post..........

More clarity emerges for second round of PLI scheme................

Cabinet gives in-principle nod to PLI in 10 sectors, sops worth Rs 1.4 lakh crore likely
By Yogima Seth Sharma & Kirtika Suneja, ET Bureau Last Updated: Nov 11, 2020, 06:33 PM IST

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday has given in-principle clearance to Production Linked Incentives (PLI) scheme for ten sectors including white goods, auto, auto components and battery manufacturing wherein sops worth Rs 1.47 lakh crore would be given over the next five years, sources said.

Those under discussion were............
battery manufacturing, auto components, network products, textiles, food processing, solar photovoltaic cells, genomics, artificial intelligence, 5G, robotics and drones.


A bulk of the outgo will be directed to sectors such as auto, auto components and battery manufacturing, followed by solar photovoltaic cells, according to sources.

The government has identified 24 focus sectors as part of its manufacturing push via the PLI and PMP schemes. These include footwear, ceramics and glass, ethanol, ready-to-eat food, aluminium, gym equipment, toys and sporting goods, drones, robotics and electric vehicle equipment. Of these, a few sectors have been identified as priorities with potential for domestic manufacturing and import substitution through import restrictions and quality control orders such as toys and footwear.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... content=23
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I haven't seen any detailed write up about the formulae for calculations of incentives in various sectors. Though it is called Production Linked Incentive (PLI) my suspicion is that it is more of an incentive based on incremental sales revenue. Now if the Incentive is 5% of incremental sales revenue then in the case of automobile and auto component sector the industry will have to log in Rs 11,40,000 crore over the next 5 years (20 times the stated government outlay of Rs 57,042 crore) in incremental sales. How realistic would that be?
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Make In India: Rs 5000 Crore PLI Push For Technology Product Manufacturing In India Includes Laptops
The government of India has further widened the scope of the Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme to boost manufacturing in India. Among the 10 new sectors that have been added are also electronics and technology products. This comes after the PLI push for the smartphone space over the last couple of months. The PLI scheme for the electronics and technology products has an approved outlay of Rs 5000 crore for a five-year period. The total financial outlay for the newly added categories, that include pharmaceuticals and drugs, automobiles and auto components, white goods such as ACs and TVs as well as textile products, is Rs 1,45,980 crore. This is part of the Aatmanirbhar Bharat mission and push for Make in India to evolve India into a manufacturing and export hub.

The PLI scheme for electronics and technology products will be implemented by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. “India is expected to have a USD 1 trillion digital economy by 2025. Additionally, the Government's push for data localization, Internet of Things market in India, projects such as Smart City and Digital India are expected to increase the demand for electronic products. The PLI scheme will boost the production of electronic products in India,” says the official press statement confirming the cabinet approval of the PLI scheme for 10 key sectors.
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A young talented team, a very good and promising product(s)...................

ETRise Top MSMEs Ranking: A wheelchair that can climb stairs, travel up to 25 km
By Garima Bora, ET Online Last Updated: Nov 12, 2020, 11:35 AM IST

A thought which inspired the founders of Ostrich Mobility, a Bengaluru-based firm which designs and manufactures wheelchairs, mobility scooters, electric home care beds and electric hospital beds, to use the moniker as its brand.

The four founders- Venukrishnan U, Binu J, Harshakumar K S and Sreejith N S were childhood friends and had years of collective experience in various domains in IT and hospitality industries before they started the company in 2007. They made their first electric wheelchair from the wiper motor of an old car.

“On our journey we met hundreds of people who were confined to the four walls of their home for years. There were students who could not go to school. There were people totally dependent on and at the mercy of others,” Venukrishnan told ET Digital. When the company started, there were limited kinds of wheelchairs available in the country but mostly imported from developed countries and only suitable for sophisticated facilities. These existing wheelchairs posed the challenges of being expensive and not suitable for Indian roads. Venukrishnan added that these imported wheelchairs could not be customised according to the needs of the user.

Ostrich Mobility came up with two patented technologies- Split Frame Chassis, a frame suspension system for wheelchairs to provide comfort, safety, and security to the users; and Automated Wheelbase Adjuster, which provides flexibility to the wheelchair to be used for tight room conditions as the wheelbase automatically adjusts to suit the room & surface needs.

Today, Ostrich has nine distinct wheelchairs enabled for both indoor and outdoor conditions and can travel up to 25 km. Some of these include Stair Climbing wheelchair and three models of manual wheelchairs.

These wheelchairs can be customized as per the needs of the user, and the company provides a doorstep delivery option. The price of these wheelchairs ranges from Rs 69,000 to Rs 3.4 lakh.

“Awareness has also been one of the challenges for us, and besides manufacturing these electric wheelchairs, convincing the customer was an additional effort in the beginning days. Now, we have many customers who commute using our wheelchairs daily for over 5 km.
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In 2014, the company ventured into making hospital beds and today has eight models of multi-functional specialty electric beds like ICU beds, gynecology/birthing beds, tilt table and specialty couches such as examination, dialysis & chemotherapy couches. Cloudnine Hospitals is one of its clients. Apart from this, it also designs and manufactures mobility scooters catering to the mobility challenges of senior citizens. According to Venukrishnan, these mobility scooters are designed concerning the conditions of Indian roads and can be driven in both rural and urban roads.

Talking numbers, Venukrishnan revealed that the company clocked $2.1 million in FY19-20 and is expecting this figure to grow to $4.5 million by FY20-21. Since its inception, it has acquired over 9000 customers and the Ostrich team envisages a global future for itself.

“Ostrich is setting up their export business to Canada and Europe and the Middle East. Considering the innovative features and the price competitiveness, Ostrich will be able to expand the business global,” he said.

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I found this ET link has collection of some very promising MSMEs

India’s Top Innovative MSMEs

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/sm ... yid-01.cms
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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... s?from=mdr
Isro eyeing new chip unit as more firms take to skies

The agency looks to build an additional fab at SCL, its Chandigarh chip making facility.
India’s space agency plans to build an additional fab at Semiconductor Laboratories
(SCL), its chip making facility in Chandigarh.....


SCL has a 180-nanometre facility that produces chips for strategic purposes. SCL and the Semiconductor Technology And Applied Research Centre (SITAR) in Bengaluru, which has a 100-nanometre unit, also make micro-electrical amd mechanical systems (MeMs) and sensors that have applications in critical areas. SITAR also runs a Gallium Arsenide Enabling Technology Centre (GAETEC) in Hyderabad.

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“There is a need to increase localisation (of components and chipsets). The plan is to reduce imports and inc
indigenisation,” an Isro official, who did not want to be named, said. Isro is looking to build chips with 65-nanometer technology in the new fab.
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Separately, a team at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru is awaiting approval for its project to build Galium Nitride Semiconductors, which includes building the chips and also systems for applications in power electronics and radio frequency electronics used for cell phone towers in 5G applications and radars.
I didn't know we had a 100 nm facility. It must be very small or it could be electron beam lithography in which case the capacity is really limited.

I hope the 65 nm facility is using indigenous technology.
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http://www.gaetec.org/
GAETEC is vertically integrated GaAs foundry comprising of design, wafer fabrication and Assembly,Testing and Reliability Evaluation facilities. GAETEC was established in 1996.



At present GAETEC is running 0.7 and 0.5 micron MESFET technologies.
How hard is it to go from a 500 nanometer to 100 nanometer technology?
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How hard is it to go from a 500 nanometer to 100 nanometer technology?
Very simple, just order the machines. But to make the machines would take years of research. Is is almost like a Photo lab. Anyone with money can purchase the machine, but making the machine is a different ballgame all together.
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To go from one size semiconductor node to another just requires the lithography machine to be changed. All the other process machines - chemical deposition, etching, ion implantation, cutting, grinding etc. remain same, unless the wafer size is changed ( but that happens very infrequently ).

Honestly we are too stuck up about this node size things. Plenty of semiconductors can be made at 500 nm too. Sensors for cameras for example. And power semiconductors? No high precision required there. The problem is that we don't have -any- semiconductor industry, not the node size.

Can we make a 500nm lithography machine with the available technology in India? I would say: No. (Not counting machines with 90% imported parts ). You need piezoelectric nano positioner corrected by laser inteferometry for that and also the laser for marking. No one is working on these things in India. We just know how to operate them if we import them from abroad.

Just the initial process of purifying the silicon, making it into a cylinder, cutting thin wafer slices and microgrinding to a smooth finish may pose insurmountable challenges for a country so backward as ours. Indians are rubbish in manufacturing technology. We only have manufacturing services in India, technicians operating imported machines bought by banias. No engineers or researchers. (Generally speaking )
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For GAETEC and SCL, getting newer lithography equipment should suffice. What really needs to get a move along is the civilian fab side of things. Then you would have a backup and a more cutting edge solution for when you need it.
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Rishirishi wrote:
How hard is it to go from a 500 nanometer to 100 nanometer technology?
Very simple, just order the machines. But to make the machines would take years of research. Is is almost like a Photo lab. Anyone with money can purchase the machine, but making the machine is a different ballgame all together.
There are only 2 or 3 companies in the world making lithography machines., ASML is one. ( The chinese Shanghai Micro Electronic Equipment are just touting one for 2021 too !.. heck money solves everything ! )

UV is the enabling technology
UV circuit design printing, using laser beams, was pioneered by Holland’s ASML. It is the sole supplier at present of extreme ultra violet (EUV) lithographic technology – the leading technology for making chips at 7nm transistor line widths and below for among other things top end smart phone processors, GPUs and AI chips.

EUV is presently in use at the only two foundries in the world able to produce such ‘leading edge’ chips, namely TSMC and Samsung. Intel has struggled to get below 10nm in its fabs and is currently experimenting with ASML lithography.

Japanese companies led by Tokyo Electron and Lasertek have been at the forefront of developing deep ultra violet (DUV) light source materials, coatings and etching and inspection systems for making ‘trailing edge’ chips at 28nm and above. SMEE is using some Japanese components. China has a National project to develop its own EUV technology but there is little prospect of near term success.
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The Japanese would willingly supply them if the US embargoes ASML though.
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What is the level of demand in the civilian side to make setting up fab in India economically viable?

The only way out is to throw money blindly and sell products at loss for years, to undercut Taiwanese producer and take market share. Fundamentally what the Chinis are doing.

Or made a PLI type deal with Taiwanese producer to set up shop in India.

We are better off maintaining a strategic pool of knowledge in either GAETEC or somewhere in small scale to meet our strategic needs. Get the required kit from Europe or Japan, but keep the knowledge. Most of the strategic programs don't need 5nm type chips.
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