Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed biodegradable, flexible, water repellent, non-toxic, ultralight and extremely strong cellulose aerogels from waste paper. These aerogels are useful for oil spill cleaning apart from packaging and heat insulation. The MTMS ... Read More »

Diversey, the leading global hygiene and cleaning company has launched a new brand identity, vision and values; aiming to be strong and distinctive to differentiate Diversey from its competitors in a global marketplace as well as support future strategic aims. ... Read More »

In a promised follow-up to The Textile Rental Services Association of America’s (TRSA) program in 2011, Hygienically Clean Advisory Council is convening to tighten the rules, evaluating processes of validations and presenting outcomes this month for the textile services certification ... Read More »

Bhubaneshwar Municipal Corporation and Piramal Sarvajal have signed an agreement for providing safe drinking water to the residents of Bhubaneshwar through a decentralized community-level solution. Bhubaneshwar is the first smart city in India to initiate such a project, ensuring safe ... Read More »

Xeros, the innovator of an ultra-low water laundry system, has announced Xeros Sbeadycare ASSURE, a new add-on service to the Sbeadycare program that provides periodic laundry hygiene monitoring and government compliance assistance to ensure that laundry operations meet all regulations. ... Read More »

California-based Sensorex, producer of electrochemical and optical sensors, and instrumentation for realtime water analysis, has expanded its family of water quality and online process transmitters, adding four new models to provide basic monitoring and control. The TX10 pH/ORP and CX10 ... Read More »

At the first ever Make In India Week held on February 13-18, 2016 in Mumbai, showing manufacturing prowess of the Country, MoUs to the tune of `15.2 lakhsCr were signed. The weeklong program discussed upcoming mega projects, Industrial Corridors and ... Read More »

CIAL (Cochin International Airport Limited) Terminal 3 was inaugurated in February 2016. The project was completed in record time of two years and at much lower cost compared to other such modern airport terminals in the country. The new T3 ... Read More »

Hero MotorCorp, the leading two wheeler manufacturer in the country, has opened its new R&D unit at in March 2016. The new facility, ‘Hero Centre of Global Innovation and R&D’, built at a cost of `450 crore, is expected shape ... Read More »

Government of Andhra Pradesh is planning to build ‘Health Care City’, a 1,000 beds mega hospital in Guntur district with an estimated cost of `10 billion. The State government has tied up with IUIH (Indo- UK Institute of Health) to ... Read More »

Hindustan Equipments is planning an expansion of its special purpose machinery manufacturing project at Village Bardari, dist. Indore, Madhya Pradesh from 10,000 TPA to 15,000 TPA. The project will come up as Unit- II in the existing Unit-I plant premises. ... Read More »

Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) has inaugurated its new scooter manufacturing plant at Ahmedabad, which is its fourth two-wheeler unit in the country. The total cost of setting up the unit is `11 billion with a capacity of 1.2 ... Read More »

Styrax Pharma has commissioned a new API (active pharmaceutical ingredients) unit spread over 4.68 acres in Visakhapatnam district. The plant has locally procured machineries and commercial production will begin soon. Read More »

Sundara Agro Foods has commissioned a bagassebased 20 MW power project at Vijayapura district of Karnataka in November 2015, through its subsidiary Shri Balaji Sugars & Chemicals. The new unit is located in the vicinity of a 3,500 TCD sugar ... Read More »

MCC (Mysuru City Corporation) is planning to establish two new composting units at a cost of about `23 crore, at two locations including Rayanakere and Kesare with individual capacity of 100 and 200 tonnes, respectively. A detailed proposal seeking approval ... Read More »

Aishwarya Bhavan Pest Control Pvt Ltd, a Bengalurubased leading pest control service provider has changed its name to ABPC Facility Management Services Pvt Ltd. The decision was taken in a board meeting held recently and company is planning to expand ... Read More »

UEM India Private Limited (UEM), a water services company of Toshiba Group, recently announced winning a major Design, Builds and Operate (DBO) contract for a wastewater treatment and recycling plant in Oman. The contract was awarded by Majis Industrial Services ... Read More »

Water saving bathroom accessories for household use saw a 25% surge in demand across the UK, according to a report by MTW Research for the year 2016. The report based on the data collected from 130 retailers and manufacturers says ... Read More »

A team of researchers led by at Kevin P.C. Minbiole, PhD – Associate Professor of Chemistry at Villanova University is developing disinfectant chemical compounds to kill superbugs, drug resistant bacteria to reduce HACs (hospital-acquired infections). The new compounds have distinctive ... Read More »

Germany has come up with plans to install multicultural toilet in public facilities, as migrant population, mostly from North Africa and ME, is facing difficulties with the Western style of defecation. Some local firms have designed new toilet sheets that ... Read More »