Manufacturing

India extruded plastic Market is projected to expand at a CAGR of 8.23% over to reach US$26.528 billion by 2024 from US$16.503 billion in 2018, says ResearchAndMarkets.

Fitch has lowered India's growth forecast to 6.6% for the current fiscal (2019-2020) from 6.8% projected earlier, citing slowdown in the manufacturing and agriculture sectors over the past year.

GAIL (India) Ltd has produced Metallocene linear-low density polyethylene (mLLDPE) on its world-class 400,000 MT per annum UNIPOL™ PE Reactor line at Pata in Uttar Pradesh.

The government will, within a month, launch new 'Open General Export License' scheme to boost Indian defence exports, disclosed Sanjay Jaju, Joint Secretary, Department of Defence Production in Ministry of Defence.

World Food India 2019, to be held 1-4 November 2019, will be the biggest gathering of all global and domestic stakeholders in Food Processing Sector.

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and industry stakeholders have discussed opportunities for India in the growing digital economy.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has secured a Rs.800 crore orders for 200 MW Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) plants from NTPC Ltd and Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Ltd (GSECL).

India must seize the opportunity to increase exports to China, which will be importing goods and services worth US$24 trillion in the next five years.

Issues relating to bring in more capital to the infrastructure sector such as highways, railways, telecom, auto-mobile and incentives for electric vehicles were highlighted during Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Pre-Budget Consultation Meeting with stakeholders from Infrastructure and Climate Change Sectors.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has discussed with the Financial Sector and Capital Markets' stakeholders issues relating to the banks, NBFCs, and Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) among others during a Pre-Budget Consultations Meeting in New Delhi.