CII to organise specialty chemicals seminar in Mumbai

CII is organising an exclusive seminar on “Indian speciality chemicals industry: Feedstock & standards” on September 13, 2013 at Hotel Taj Vivanta, Cuffe Parade. Experts believe that growth in India’s chemical industry will be driven by specialty chemicals partly because hydrocarbon resources to build a globally competitive commodity chemicals industry is not adequate. However, the growth of speciality chemicals will require availability of key feedstocks at competitive prices.
 
With this background, CII National Committee on Chemicals commissioned a study on ten key materials which have wide applicability and not competitively available. The study has recommendations for the industry as well as Government to ensure that the industry attracts investment and grows to realise its true potential. Evolution of consumption standards is a significant aspect that had been highlighted by the CII McKinsey report, titled ‘Building a global scale speciality chemicals’, as key to the growth of the speciality chemical industry in India.
 
CII’s seminar will provide domestic manufacturers a view of the enormous potential for manufacturing feedstock thereby helping them in taking positive business decisions and give the user’s perspective of the growth of the specialty chemicals industry. It will also deliberate upon evolving consumption standards through use of flame retardants and lead-free and low-VOC paints.
 
The seminar will witness participation of who’s who of the industry such as Indrajit Pal, Secretary, Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Government of India (GoI); Ajay Shankar, Member Secretary, National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council, GoI; Nadir Godrej, Chairman, CII National Committee on Chemicals & MD, Godrej Industries Ltd; Sidhartha Mitra, Executive Director (Petrochemicals), Indian Oil Corporation Ltd; Michael Vetha Siromany, Managing Director, The Kerala Minerals & Metals Ltd; Dr Rajeev Vaidya, President, South Asia, DuPont; H J Gazder, President, Indian Oxides & Chemicals Ltd; Yogesh Kothari, Chairman & Managing Director, Alkyl Amines Chemicals Ltd, etc.