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“Innovations in Electrochemistry: Exploring the Potential of Nano Sensors and Energy Storage Devices”

“Innovations in Electrochemistry: Exploring the Potential of Nano Sensors and Energy Storage Devices”

The field of electrochemistry has seen a surge in recent times, with researchers exploring new avenues to improve the efficiency and accuracy of various sensing techniques. Our research group is at the forefront of this development, working on two cutting-edge projects that are poised to make a significant impact in the field of environmental monitoring and energy storage. Our work focuses on the development of an electrochemical Nano sensor for heavy metal ions and NPK sensors using metal oxide, conducting polymer, and carbon nanotubes. In addition, we are also exploring the use of metal-oxide organic or non-organic frameworks for the development of binder-less supercapacitors and energy storage devices. These projects are a testament to the expertise and innovation of our research group, and we are confident that they will have a lasting impact in their respective fields.

Our research group is working on electrochemical Nano sensors for heavy metal ion, NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium) sensors, using metal oxide, conducting polymer, and carbon nanotubes. The aim of our research is to develop low-cost, portable, and efficient sensors that can provide quick and accurate results for soil nutrient testing. The electrochemical sensors that we are working on use ion-selective membrane transducers to monitor major soil nutrients such as nitrate, phosphate, potassium, and other parameters such as soil pH and humidity.

Our team of experts is dedicated to exploring the potential of electrochemical sensors and incorporating the latest technologies to make our sensors more effective. The use of metal oxide, conducting polymer, and carbon nanotubes enhances the performance and accuracy of the sensors, providing farmers with reliable data to make informed decisions. We are committed to contributing to the development of the agricultural sector by providing innovative and efficient soil nutrient sensors. By using electrochemical sensors, we aim to make soil nutrient testing more accessible, cost-effective, and sustainable for farmers, leading to a healthier and more prosperous future for all. In addition, we are exploring and developing innovative solutions for energy storage and sustainability. Our current focus is on the development of a Metal-oxide organic or non-organic framework foamed Binder less supercapacitor and energy storage device. This technology has the potential to revolutionize the way we store and use energy, offering increased efficiency and versatility in energy storage systems. Our team of experts is using a multidisciplinary approach to design, synthesize, and characterize these materials and devices. With our extensive knowledge and experience in the field of energy storage, we are confident that our work will have a significant impact on the future of sustainable energy.

 

Short CV of Dr. D J Shirale

Dr. Dhammanand J. Shirale is a highly qualified and experienced educator and researcher in the field of Electronics. He holds a Ph.D. in Electronics from Dr. B. A. M. University, Aurangabad and a Master’s Degree in Electronics Science from North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon. He has taught at several prestigious institutions, including VIT University and Kavayitri Bahinabai Chaudhari North Maharashtra University, and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Riverside.

 

Dr. Shirale’s research focuses on Nano-structured conducting polymers for Nano-sensors and biosensors. He has supervised Ph.D. students and graduate students and has co-authored two books on Modern Physics and Materials Science. He has received numerous awards and prizes for his research, including a Research Award from North Maharashtra University and a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of California.

In addition to his research and teaching, Dr. Shirale has also served in various administrative roles, including as a member of the Academic Audit of SOPS and the University Board of Studies at VIT University. He is also a member of several professional organizations, including the Semiconductor Society of India and the Centre for Crystal Research Center at VIT University.

Short CV of Rahul Salunke

Dr. Rahul Siddharth Salunke is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics, School of Physical Sciences at the Kavayitri Bahinabai Chaudhari North Maharashtra University in Jalgaon, India. He holds a Ph.D. in Electronics from the same department and has been a researcher in the Nano-Structured Materials Processing Research Laboratory since 2014. His research focuses on nano-structured conducting polymers and carbon nanotubes for heavy metal detection. He has experience in fabricating Atomic Layer Deposition systems and is skilled in multi-disciplinary design, including embedded systems product design, automation, and environmental design.

 

Sort CV of Dr. Yogesh Nakate

Dr. Yogesh Tukaram Nakate is an Assistant Professor in Yeshwant College Nanded. He holds a Ph.D. in Electronics from Kavayitri Bahinabai Chaudhari North Maharashtra University Jalgaon, Maharashtra with a thesis entitled “Bio-derived Carbonized Materials and their Nano-composites for High-Performance Energy Storage Devices.” He has expertise in the synthesis and characterization of semiconducting nanostructures, functional materials, conducting polymers, and nanocomposite hybrid nanomaterials. He has worked on device applications for supercapacitors, batteries, sensors, optoelectronics devices, catalysis, and fuel cells. He has also carried out Density Functional Theory and theoretical investigations for materials science in various applications. Dr. Nakate is qualified in the National Eligibility Test (NET) examination for Assistant Professor and research in College and University of India, as well as the State Eligibility Test (SET) examination for Assistant Professor in College of Maharashtra State. He has worked on a Department of Science and Technology (DST) research project at North Maharashtra University. He holds a M.Sc. Electronics Science from the University of Pune with distinction and a B.Sc. Electronic Science from the University of Pune with first class. Dr. Nakate has received several awards and recognition, including the Laxman Deshmukh Prize for the highest total in M.Sc., and has been a senior wing NCC cadet (Air Force) at the college level. He has won the 2nd prize in the National Level Technical Festival “INTECHXICATION-2013” for Assembly coding at MIT Pune, and was a mentor for research projects at the state level competition. He was also selected for pre-incubation for “Designing low-cost programmable spin coater design with vacuums system” at KBCNM University Centre for Innovation, Incubation & Linkages KCIIL, Jalgaon. He has received support for his start-up “Design smart vigilance device” from SRTM University Incubation Center (CABII), Nanded.

Ms. Nikita Wadodkar

Working as a Research Scholar at Kavayitri Bahinabai Chaudhari North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon. My research interests include Electrochemical Sensors, Supercapacitors and energy storage devices, Nanomaterials.

 

 

 

 

 

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Flex Medical Molding (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd Becomes First Site Within Flex to Achieve Plastics Injection Molding Medaccred Progam Accreditation

Flex Medical Molding (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd Becomes First Site Within Flex to Achieve Plastics Injection Molding Medaccred Progam Accreditation

Flex Medical Molding (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd has become the first site within Flex to earn the prestigious MedAccred industry-managed program accreditation for Plastic Injection Molding following a recent successful audit.

The Gushu facility in Shenzhen, China, achieved the accreditation, after meeting the rigorous audit requirements set by MedAccred subscribing members – including Baxter, BD, Boston Scientific, Edwards Lifesciences, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Philips, Roche Diagnostics and Stryker.

The MedAccred audit and accreditation program is unique as it is the sole industry-managed supply chain oversight program for key critical manufacturing processes in the medical device industry. The accreditation assures that critical manufacturing processes meet industry consensus requirements, leading to the production of high-quality end products, ultimately enhancing patient safety.

Bob Lizewski, Vice President, MedAccred, said: “I wish to congratulate Flex Gushu for its commitment to quality which enabled it to attain MedAccred Accreditation for Plastics Injection Molding. This is a major accomplishment which is globally recognized. The medical device industry has incorporated MedAccred into its approach for handling risk, as it demonstrates compliance to industry standards, customer requirements and best practices.”

Keith Hung, Vice President for Medical Operations, Asia, Flex, said: “Flex Gushu obtained the MedAccred Accreditation in injection molding process which can help to improve the quality of products and most importantly patient safety. We are the first Flex site to get the certification worldwide in injection molding. MedAccred Accreditation can be used as tool to enhance the process capability, manufacturing monitoring and process validation. We will utilize all resources available in our pursuit of this quality.”

Kenneth Leung, Senior Quality Director, Flex, said: “The MedAccred accreditation gave us the excellent chance to improve the processes through different tools that are recognized by the leading medical device companies, as well as to step up into a new level of quality control in our site. We plan to continue the MedAccred Accreditation process and seek for the improvement in the system and extend to other areas.”

Learn more at www.MedAccred.org.

 

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Archroma Expected to Close Acquisition of Huntsman Textile Effects on 28 February 2023

Archroma Expected to Close Acquisition of Huntsman Textile Effects on 28 February 2023

Archroma, a global leader in sustainable specialty chemicals and solutions for industries such as textiles, packaging & paper, paints and coatings, today announced that it has secured all regulatory approvals required to complete the acquisition of the Textile Effects business from Huntsman Corporation (“Huntsman Textile Effects”).

Both parties expect the transaction, which was first announced on 09 August 2022, to close on 28 February 2023.

Archroma is a portfolio company of US-based private investment firm SK Capital Partners. Since its formation in 2013, Archroma acquired and successfully integrated the global textile chemicals businesses of BASF as well as BASF’s stilbene-based OBA business for paper applications, and M. Dohmen, a specialist in coloration for automotive textiles.

www.archroma.com.

 

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Autoneum Future-Proofs Production With DIEFFENBACHER’s EVORIS Digitalization Platform

Autoneum Future-Proofs Production With DIEFFENBACHER’s EVORIS Digitalization Platform

Extensive Plant Modernization Includes New Automation and Digitalization Solutions

Swiss company Autoneum operates five DIEFFENBACHER automotive component production lines at its Sevelen site. Together with DIEFFENBACHER, Autoneum has now extensively modernized one of the lines, a GMT/LFT-D line for glass-fiber-reinforced thermoplastics. One highlight of the project was the introduction of the new EVORIS digitalization platform.

The modernized GMT/LFT-D line introduces a new line control system, including the safety PLC and three 6-axis robots. In addition, various motion sequences of the loading and unloading robots were optimized. Reis robots were retired during the modernization; however, Autoneum was able to map its processes and comply with all safety requirements with the new robots despite the tight space conditions. “We can now use our GMT/LFT-D system in a cycle-time-optimized manner,” said Christoph Bless, Head Operational Maintenance & Repair at Autoneum. “The availability of the plant components is guaranteed.”

To further optimize production, Autoneum decided to implement the EVORIS digitalization platform. EVORIS uses artificial intelligence to make plants faster and more efficient. “Our goal is to operate our systems with high availability and as sustainably as possible while ensuring the right component quality. EVORIS gives us much better insights into our production and better possibilities to influence it,” emphasized Bless. “Digitalization with EVORIS is a key to sustainability, energy savings and profitability at Autoneum,” added Autoneum Legal Unit Head and Plant Manager Mario-Martin Kolar.

Bless called DIEFFENBACHER’s expertise the decisive factor in moving forward with the digitalization project. “DIEFFENBACHER’s approach stands out from the crowd. They offer the complete package, everything from the platform to sensor technology and plant know-how to technologist knowledge for the entire production line. In addition, DIEFFENBACHER coordinated the entire integration, and we look forward to their further development of EVORIS,” he concluded.

Autoneum uses Anomaly Detection, Curve Analysis and Component History apps on the EVORIS platform, which collects all plant data at a central point. As a result, Autoneum gains deep insights into its production processes via powerful trending and condition monitoring tools and various reporting possibilities. The company uses this transparency across the entire plant to accelerate decision-making, improve processes, increase machine availability, boost energy efficiency and optimize maintenance. Autoneum achieves higher production capacity while manufacturing components of the highest quality.

www.autoneum.com

 

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DSM Engineering Materials Launches Lucidiris, a Color and Mechanical Properties Prediction Tool Powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI)

DSM Engineering Materials Launches Lucidiris, a Color and Mechanical Properties Prediction Tool Powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Today, DSM Engineering Materials announces the launch of Lucidiris. Lucidiris helps customers reduce time to market when developing colors of high-performance materials for a variety of applications. Besides predicting color and mechanical properties, it can predict the envelope of potential color space within critical mechanical properties and prescribe recipes for targeted color properties. Lucidiris has been developed for several high-performance material grades and will be extended, including recycled-based and repurposed materials. It is a next step in DSM Engineering Materials’ journey to make product development for their customers quicker and easier via advanced digital solutions.

This state-of-the-art patent protected Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology facilitates the development of material recipes with targeted optical properties while assuring mechanical properties.

With Lucidiris customers will be supported by its ability to:

  • Predict color and mechanical properties of polymer compounds upon addition of color ingredients.
  • Predict envelope of potential color space that can be produced within critical mechanical properties.
  • Prescribe color ingredients to add to a polymer compound to meet targeted properties.

“Lucidiris changes our design-build-test-learn development cycle for the customer applications of our materials fundamentally,” said Erwin Houben, R&T Manager Digitization DSM Engineering Materials. “This state-of-the-art AI based digital tool reinforces our strengths in colored materials development and enables to take on some tough challenges for reusing circular materials.”

“And there is more to come,” said Angelika Schmidt, Global R&T Manager of Performance Polymers, DSM Engineering Materials. “Lucidiris is our next step into digitization of product development. What we can do for color development already today, will be possible for product development in the future. Combining human intelligence with machine learning will enable us to get to the successful recipes with much less iterations and therefore much shorter development times for our customers.”

More information can be found at www.dsm.com

 

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It’s All About Sustainability: Heubach Group at PlastIndia 2023

It’s All About Sustainability: Heubach Group at PlastIndia 2023

  • Heubach showcases a broad range of sustainable colorants solutions for plastics
  • Meet Heubach experts at the booth in Hall 2F, First Floor, Stall C-7-A

PlastIndia 2023 takes place February 1-5 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, India. For Heubach, this year´s PlastIndia is all about sustainability: The company is showcasing a range of organic and inorganic pigments, dyes and comprehensive color solutions that support the plastics industry on its trajectory toward more sustainable solutions. Heubach is an important partner for the industry and presents its solutions under the theme “Let’s build a colorful future together”.

“Plastic provides lots of advantages over other materials. For instance, it contributes to protect food, or to reduce the weight of vehicles. According to some studies, plastics even have lower greenhouse gas contribution than alternatives in most applications, “ highlights Sambit Roy, Head of Global Marketing at Heubach. He adds: “New and innovative color solutions are essential to improve sustainability in the plastics industry. Our company´s experts look forward to sharing their newest insights on a broad range of topics, from recycling and biodegradable pigments over newest innovations for spin-dying to color solutions for highly demanding applications.”

Heubach organic and inorganic pigments, dyes and color solutions contribute to sustainability in different ways:

  • Heubach improves the footprint of its pigments already during their production process, e.g. by using bio based raw materials, green energy, or ensuring low water intake.
  • Also when being processed, Heubach pigments have positive impact on sustainability: With their high dispersibility, Heubach pigments require lower energy consumption during the masterbatch production and higher throughput at fiber producers. High quality consistency helps manufacturers to improve their first past quality level.
  • Last, but not least, sustainability is also about increasing the lifespan of plastic articles. Pigments with high light-and weather-fastness are key to maintain usability and quality of plastic objects for a longer time span.

Heubach has the broadest portfolio of colorant solutions in the industry and will present a range of products at PlastIndia that have different ways of positively contributing to sustainability.

Lower Environmental Footprint:

Ultrazur: the new Ultramarine blue pigment is produced in a brand-new factory in India, using state-of-the-art technology that reduces CO2 emissions, water-intake and energy consumption.

Supporting customers’ sustainability goals

Pigments with excellent dispersibility help the masterbatch producers get full color strength out of the pigment and reduce the time and energy necessary to disperse it in the extruder. They are also recommended for the mass coloration of fibers and filaments, supporting the growth of mass dyeing versus bath dyeing, which is a great contribution to sustainability. Heubach will showcase at PlastIndia, among others, highly dispersible pigments like PV Fast Pink E, Graphtol Yellow 3GP, Graphtol Yellow H2R, PV Fast Red E5B, and PV Fast Blue A4R.

Pigments with ZDHC certification make textiles more sustainable and environmentally friendly. PV Fast Pink E, PV Fast Pink E01 and PV Fast Red E5B have received the MRSL compliance; other pigments are under testing.

Pigments with excellent light-and weather fastness increase the lifespan of the plastic articles, especially for outdoor applications, such as window profiles, fences, automotive interiors, artificial grass. The inorganic pigments of Heubach ranges HEUCODUR and VANADUR offer excellent solutions.

For the replacement of harmful lead chromate and molybdate pigments Heubach provides safe formulations based on its ranges of inorganic and organic pigments HEUCODUR, VANADUR, VYNAMON, PV Fast.

Cool colours are another strong contribution to sustainability through energy saving. Heubach inorganic pigments HEUCODUR are a perfect choice.

Finally, Heubach also offers several solutions for the recycling of plastic, from the proper sorting of black plastics to the easy and safe coloration of recycled polymers. Heubach also offers a range of pigments certified “OK compost” for compostable plastics.

www.heubach.com

 

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Are You Ready to Take Your Automation to the Next Level?

Are You Ready to Take Your Automation to the Next Level?

Sander Sondaal, Director Commercial Print Sales, Ricoh Graphic Communications, Ricoh Europe

When Hunkeler Innovationdays 2023 opens its doors in just over two weeks the focus of the compact but well attended international industry event will be next level automation.

The 14th iteration of the show will demonstrate how fragmented processes can be combined by the intelligent linking of work steps. It will highlight how this this leads to greater efficiency, enhanced quality, and production planning efficiency.

It will demonstrate how next level automation goes beyond solutions and systems to include the intelligent interlinking of major production processes.

It will explore the challenges that today’s operational reality poses and the ways to solve them.

Rather than one size fits all, off the shelf technological solutions, attendees will be able to investigate how they work with suppliers to shape operation-specific, tailored software that meets their specific requirements.

Among the broad industry challenges software solutions help operations more effectively respond to are:

Handling a greater mix of fast turnaround short run jobs
Commercial printers have to manage an increasing variety of short run jobs against tighter turnaround times to win business while maintaining profitability. A seamless process for acceptance, planning, printing, and finishing is essential to maximise capacity and optimise productivity. Operations need to create a streamlined workflow that efficiently manages jobs.

At Hunkeler Ricoh will preview exclusively RICOH TotalFlow Producer, a print on demand app that funnels print jobs from multiple submission methods into a consolidated cloud-native location. Vendor agnostic, it can seamlessly integrate into existing client environments, to provide the ability to view and edit jobs. An automatic pre-flight function helps to identify file issues, including missing fonts, inaccurate page size, poor image resolution, incorrect colour and more. This helps eliminate errors, reduce costly reruns, save valuable time, and improve client service levels.

Ensuring operational efficiency
Commercial printers are under pressure to increase productivity, offer new applications, and expand their capabilities. To successfully achieve this requires information to flow through production smoothly with complete integrity. It also needs to be accessible and available at all times.

At Hunkeler Innovationdays, Ricoh will demonstrate its automated end to end workflow management solution RICOH ProcessDirector. It captures, transforms,and manages information and processes in ways that can help achieve 100% output integrity, reduce costs, eliminate errors, increase productivity, streamline a variety of production environments, and increase profitability.

Maximising business potential
Commercial printers can struggle to unleash the full potential of their business. Essential to succeeding in today’s ever evolving professional print marketplace is easily accessible, critical operational data and actionable reporting. Being able to assess equipment efficiency, make better purchasing decisions based on device performance, and understand throughput to plan for peak capacity all provide valuable data that can help inform day to day running.

RICOH Supervisor will show attendees how they can collect and place operational data into customisable web based dashboards to optimise device utilisation, performance, and throughput. It can help improve print job estimating, operator skills, and compliance as well as identify and resolve issues promptly.

Innovation in workflow automation in the digital printing environment will also be further explored by Ricoh at the DOXNET on-site conference. It will take place on February 28.

For further information, please visit www.ricoh-europe.com

 

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Ricoh to Introduce Vendor Agnostic Automated Job Onboarding Solution at Hunkeler Innovationdays 2023

Ricoh to Introduce Vendor Agnostic Automated Job Onboarding Solution at Hunkeler Innovationdays 2023

Cloud-native print on demand app that provides flexibility and visibility will be unveiled at Hunkeler Innovationdays 2023

Ricoh today announced its latest production workflow technology – RICOH TotalFlow Producer – developed to resolve the leading workflow challenges around print job intake and preparation. It will be showcased at Hunkeler Innovationdays 2023, February 27 to March 2, at the Messe Lucerne Exhibition Centre in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Its first time on display for the public globally, TotalFlow Producer funnels print jobs from multiple submission methods into a consolidated cloud-native location, and provides the ability to view and edit jobs, all in an easy to use, cost effective, and error-reducing solution that is completely vendor agnostic for seamless integration into existing client environments.

TotalFlow Producer allows users to:

  • Automate the submission and consolidation of jobs coming from multiple sources, such as email, web to print, and file transfer services.
  • Activate an automatic preflight function that helps to identify file issues, including missing fonts, inaccurate page size, poor image resolution, incorrect colour and more. This helps inhouse and commercial Print Service Providers (PSPs) to eliminate errors, reduce costly reruns, save valuable time, and improve client service levels.
  • Improve the overall client experience by providing a personalised job uploading portal where job status can be viewed. A simple bidirectional communication method within the portal will eliminate the need for time consuming post-order follow up interactions.

Eef de Ridder, Vice President, Graphic Communications Group, Ricoh Europe, says “By hosting TotalFlow Producer in the RICOH TotalFlow Cloud, we can meet our clients’ growing needs to improve data security, efficiency, scalability, and affordability without requiring expensive IT infrastructure or expertise.”

TotalFlow Producer will be available to license through annual subscriptions and will offer free trials beginning in summer 2023.

Along with TotalFlow Producer, Ricoh will be showcasing two of its market leading vendor neutral solutions that empower printers to unleash the full potential of their business. Ricoh Supervisor, Ricoh’s first SaaS production workflow application, collects operational data and visualises it on web-based dashboards to optimise device utilisation and operation throughput.

Supporting web fed and sheetfed production printers, Ricoh ProcessDirector is designed to automate data driven workflows. And the award winning integration between Ricoh ProcessDirector and Ricoh Supervisor delivers advanced visibility down to the document level, including insight into production volume. Ricoh will also demonstrate the newest integration between Ricoh Supervisor and Hunkeler pre- and post- finishing equipment, which collects device statistics and then illustrates the data to help identify ways to drive efficiency.

In addition to its activities on the exhibition floor, Ricoh will present innovation in workflow automation in the digital printing environment at the DOXNET onsite conference, which will be held on February 28 as part of Hunkeler Innovationdays.

For further information, please visit www.ricoh-europe.com

 

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OQ Polymers Meet Soaring Demand in Asia, Thanks to Powerful India-Oman Partnership

OQ Polymers Meet Soaring Demand in Asia, Thanks to Powerful India-Oman Partnership

  • Indian sub-continent is one of the fastest growing regions for polymer demand
  • Oman’s total trade with India nearly doubled last year to USD$9.9bn
  • OQ to create new, and strengthen existing Oman-India business partnerships at PlastIndia on the ground floor, hall 2 – C4

OQ, the Oman-based energy transition enabler that specializes in PP and PE grades for flexible and rigid packaging solutions, continues building on a long-lived trading partnership between its home country and India as the company greets familiar faces at the PlastIndia event in New Delhi this week.

Oman’s total trade with India almost doubled last year and was estimated at USD$9.9bn in 2021-2022 compared to USD$5.4bn in 2020-2021. OQ believes the trade opportunities will only further prosper as India’s population, its demand for plastic products and countries’ collaborations continue to grow momentum. An advantageous prospect of a free trade agreement between the two countries is in the works, with discussions at an advanced stage.

The Indian sub-continent is one of the fastest-growing regions for polymer demand with a CAGR of 6 per cent projected for the 2022-2030 period. In addition, by mid-2023, India is expected to become the most populous country in the world – and with rising income levels being seen across the region, demand for plastic products is set to increase exponentially. Harnessing years of success and confidence in the face of challenges, OQ is primed for demand and ready to take action in support of their close partnership with India.

Speaking from OQ’s stand at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, Dr Ali Al Lawati, VP for Global Sales at OQ.

“With unique products manufactured at a world-class plant in Oman, OQ provides multiple industry solutions across several key market segments in India. From flexible and rigid packaging and infrastructure to agriculture and automotive industries, we are excited to empower our business relationship with India and add to what is already a unified and thriving imports partnership between our two nations.”

According to Oman’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Indian enterprises and establishments in the country account for an estimated investment of USD$7.5 billion across several key industries covering finance, aviation, iron/steel, cement, chemicals, automotive, fertilizers and more.

India and Oman share a collective vision to promote economic well-being across their countries, building a collaborative network to transport goods throughout a global supply chain, and attracting highly skilled talent to join their journey towards greater domestic innovation in the polymer market. Landmark examples of Indian business activity in Oman include:

  • Port of Duqm special economic zone: Around USD$1.8 billion contribution to significant investments made by Indian companies and Duqm port authorities.
  • SOHAR Port and Free Zone: Several Indian firms have emerged as leading investors, further supporting global trade routes between Europe and Asia.

India and Oman are connected by geography, history and culture, enjoying warm and advantageous relations. Much of this can be attributed to historical maritime trade linkages and the continuing role played by the Indian community in contributing to the progress of Oman.

Contact between Indian and Omani civilizations can be traced back 5,000 years. In 1955, diplomatic relations were established, with the relationship being upgraded to a strategic partnership in 2008.

Since then, investment flows have been consistent and further gathering momentum. Today, India is among Oman’s top three trading partners along with the UAE and China and is the country’s third-largest non-oil export market.

Further investment opportunities, including OQ’s groundbreaking Ladayn Park initiative, will be showcased at the PlastIndia event on February 1-5 in New Delhi on the ground floor, hall 2 – C4.

www.oq.com

 

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Elmet Exhibiting Again at Numerous Prestigious Trade Fairs Worldwide in 2023

Elmet Exhibiting Again at Numerous Prestigious Trade Fairs Worldwide in 2023

The Upper Austrian specialist in developing and manufacturing liquid silicone parts is living up to its reputation as a global player.

Elmet’s trade fair and exhibition stands already drew large crowds last year. Be it at K, the leading international trade fair for the plastics industry, or at FIP in Lyon– the Upper Austrian specialist in developing and producing high-quality liquid silicone parts, dosing systems, and moldmaking succeeded in imparting a great deal of knowledge. And Elmet will be appearing at a wide variety of trade fairs again in 2023, including the renowned Fakuma in Friedrichshafen.

“It’s important for us to keep our customers and partners around the world up to date with the latest news and developments in our company and the industry in general,” explains Elmet’s CEO, Harald Wallner. Trade fairs are the ideal place for this.

On the European stage

As a highly successful Upper Austrian company, Elmet conducts a lot of business on its home continent. Appearing at Fakuma in Friedrichshafen is therefore an absolute must. “At Fakuma, we have the opportunity to get in contact directly with our most important partners both in and outside the EU and at all levels of the supply and production chain of the various industrial sectors,” explains Harald Wallner. “This trade fair has significant added value not only for potential new customers, but also for ourselves.”

International reputation

Elmet will be presenting itself to a transatlantic audience in Detroit, Michigan, in fall 2023. “This trade fair is renowned for its technology conferences, live product demonstrations, and its potential as a think tank, so it is ideal for us in our role as a leading innovator,” says Harald Wallner. “Silicone Expo USA offers a valuable opportunity for networking globally and for maintaining, extending, and building business relationships all around the world,” he believes. Representatives of all levels in the silicone industry supply chain will also be present here.

At a glance

For Elmet, the trade fair year 2023 begins with Silicone Expo Europe in Amsterdam from March 21 to 23. It continues in late summer with Plast in Milan from September 5 to 8. In fall, appearances at Silicone Expo USA from October 4 to 5 and Fakuma in Friedrichshafen from October 17 to 21 bring this year’s exhibition merry-go-round to an end.

Corporate Data

Molds. Dosing technology. Part production. Jobs. Elmet inspires with smart silicone solutions. This is Elmet’s guiding principle. The innovative company was founded in 1996. A powerful, dedicated team with a wealth of experience in moldmaking, dosing technology, and liquid-silicone injection molding has since developed into an internationally successful systems builder. Today Elmet is a global player in designing and manufacturing high-quality equipment for the production of silicone parts.

Further information can be found at www.elmet.com

 

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