Archive for April, 2009
Jindal Steel and Power to produce gas in Bolivia
The Economic Times India’s Jindal Steel and Power expects to start producing gas in Bolivia in June for export to Argentina, company representatives told the Andean nation’s president here. Vikrant Gujral, vice president of the steel and energy major, told reporters about the company’s plans after Friday’s meeting with President Evo Morales, saying the gas [...]
Indian Railways chugs on green track with switch to CNG
Financial Express Crude oil prices in the international markets may have cooled considerably in recent months. But concerned about the earlier record increase in prices and in an effort to go green, Indian Railways is developing technology to run trains on compressed natural gas. In fact, it has set up the Indian Railways Institute of [...]
Indian Corporate heads sign CII’s code for ecologically sustainable growth
The Hindu Business Line : Corporate heads signed the code for ecologically sustainable business growth evolved by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), in confirmation of their voluntary commitment to work towards conserving natural resources without compromising on high and accelerated growth, in a CEOs meet organised by CII, Madurai Zone, here. Called the ‘Mission [...]
Just $6bn will save a generation from starvation, says UN
Buying/leasing farmland in Latin America to feed India is something worthy of consideration in this downturn. The secular trend for crop prices over the next 2 decades is up, up. Feeding India is a recession-proof business.The Independent The UN’s World Food Programme warned: “As the global financial crisis deepens, hunger and malnutrition are likely to [...]
Wind man of India sets sights on Ontario
TheStar.com | Business | [Tulsi] Tanti, often called the “wind man of India,” was in town yesterday to accept the annual Global Indian Award from the Canada India Foundation.Today, Pune-based Suzlon is the fifth-largest wind turbine supplier in the world with $3.34 billion in revenues in 2008 and 13,000 employees. The company currently sells products [...]
Urban Indians ‘eating out’ more
Since Italian food is quite popular among young urban Indians, Argentina – with its large population descended from Italian immigrants and many of those in the food business, should be considered as source for packaged and frozen Italian foods. More potential to scale up and supply India’s needs for the next few decades.livemint.com The Food [...]
MSC joins Shipping Corp of India for weekly Europe service
livemint.com “With the introduction of the ISE service, MSC will now be offering a twice weekly direct sailing to all its customers both from north, west, south and east India to Europe and Mediterranean,” said Deepak Tewari, chief executive of MSC Agency (India) Pvt. Ltd, the Indian unit of MSC. The cost of moving a [...]
PERU: Water Isn’t for Everyone
IPSNews Water is not only in short supply in Peru, but it is also poorly distributed in relation to the population. Seventy percent of the people live in the arid strip along the Pacific Ocean, where just 1.8 percent of the country’s freshwater supply is found. Lima, on the coast, is home to eight million [...]
Made for India: Succeeding in a Market Where One Size Won’t Fit All
India Knowledge@Wharton While consumers across the world are seeing a growing number of “Made in India” labels on the goods they buy, Indian shoppers are witnessing a more subtle change. Increasingly, multinational companies are selling products that are not just made in — but that are made for — India. Nowhere is that more apparent [...]
Powering an Entire Country With Renewable Energy – focus on biomass
This Sietch blogger has done some calculations relevant for the US. Can be extended to other countries. What intrigued me was his reference to biomass – India and Latin America, are a veritable bounty for biomass with their extensive tree cover, not to mention livestock populations. The potential in India alone is something like 16,000 [...]
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