EDITORIAL BOARD

ChairmanARUN LAHOTI

MembersM. JAYADEVJ. VENUGOPALANIL NAGDAA.RAVINDRA BABU

Published byANDHRA PRADESH PLASTICSMANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION304, Raghavaratna Towers, Chirag Ali Lane,HYDERABAD 500 001Phone: 23203191 Fax: 040-23204211Email: info@appma.org.inWeb: www.appma.org.in

OFFICE BEARERS:PresidentM. JAYADEV

Vice President - ISURESH SOMANI

Vice President (Rural)DAYAKAR A.

Hon. SecretaryJ. VENUGOPAL

Joint SecretaryK. NARAYAN REDDY

Joint Secratary (Rural)V. SRINIVAS

TreasurerNARENDRA BALDWA

Back Cover 8,000IInd & IIIrd Cover 6,000Full Page 4,000Half page 2,500Quarter Page 1,500Classified 300

All payments should be made by cheque/draft drawnfavouring the A.P. Plastic Manufacturers Association,payable at Hyderabad. Service Tax will be charged extraas applicable. Cash will not be accepted.

DISCLAIMERAll the information published in this issue has beencollected/gathered from various sources. APPMAdoes not hold responsibility for any error or omissionand is not liable for any legal consequences.

ADVERTISEMENT TARIFF

Dear Members

Development is a never ending process. And the sameis visible all around us. It is said that a wheel is probablythe most important invention of all time. Well lookingat the world today, we can say polymer is the bestcreation of mankind so far. It is a material which is just indispensable foranything and everything happening today. It is hard to imagine any lifestylesystem that would be possible without the use of polymers today.

Lately positive signs are visible regarding the growth in the Indianmanufacturing sector. Development creates growth, and India iscontinuously on the growth path and consistent on development. The Worldis looking towards India and China as they are growing at a pace differentthan the rest of the world. It is heartening news and encouraging for theIndustry in general and Plastics Processing sector in particular. Indian Plasticsindustry seems prepared to meet the challenges of future.

Our state of Andhra Pradesh has also witnessed impressive growth in plasticsprocessing sector, and many first generation entrepreneurs are enteringthis sector along with established industrialists in other sectors diversifyinginto plastics processing. The new Industrial policy of AP is out and thisissue is carrying it in detail.

Green Building is a very interesting and promising concept and ourassociation has attempted to explore and educate the members on thisvery new sector. Bio-Plastics is also gaining popularity and it is hearteningto know that dedicated fair for Bio-Plastic is being held in China. In futureissues, we will try to bring more information on these subjects.

It may be Green, it may be Bio… but it will be plastics, because plastic isindispensable.

Arun LahotiChairman-Website & Bulletin Committeeeditor@appma.org.in

Editorial

3

Contents :3 Editorial4 President writes5 Secretary's Report6 APPMA at Work - Seminar on Plastics for Green Building11 Press Releases35 New Industrial Policy by Government of A.P.39 Bio Plastics-Need of the Time39 Classified Advertisements41 New Members List45 APPMA at Work - Design Sensitization Seminar46 Government Order (Municipal Administration and

Urban Development)

AP Plastic TimesVol 5 August-September 2010 No.2

444

President Writes...Dear Members,

An entrepreneurs’ religion and his temple is his enterprise. For him work is worship. Winnerstake time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top soexhilarating. We at APPMA are striving to scale the mountain called achievement. What an association has toachieve is the approval and satisfaction of its members in seeing their representative body’s progress on thepath towards its aims and objective.

I am happy that with a vibrant membership and efficient & dedicated managing committee members, yourassociation will perform to its optimum. Apart from all the routine work an association is supposed to do, ourassociation is working on the ambitious projects of acquiring a new and more spacious office for the association.With tremendous growth witnessed in the plastic processing sector and with more stringent pollution controlguidelines for running an industry, it is imperative now that Industries operate in clusters in dedicated sectorspecific industrial estates. Our association is working on this concept project since past few years and we wishto accelerate on this front. Our idea has found encouraging support from the government and the Dept. ofIndustries is providing all the needed help in the establishing of an exclusive Plastic Park (Exclusive IndustrialEstate for plastic industries). Favourable development on this front is expected shortly and members will bekept informed about the progress.

The new industrial policy and the incentive scheme for new industries is announced and members will takeadvantage of this and expand their industrial activity. Andhra Pradesh is making fast strides in the plasticprocessing sector and our entrepreneurs are now producing global standard products and making inroads intothe national market.

Innovation is the key to progress and my fellow industrialists are always in the forefront to adapt to innovationand modernization. New concepts like Green Building Material and Design Sensitizing in mold making havefound acceptance with our entrepreneurs and they have made impressive head start in adopting them ascommercial ventures. We will always offer our resources in this regard for the guidance and benefit ofentrepreneurs. Here, I wish to thankfully acknowledge and appreciate the co-operation and expert guidanceof Sri Kamal Nanavati, President – Polymers, Reliance Industries Ltd., whose encouraging advice led to thesuccessful organizing of a National Seminar on “Plastics for Green Buildings”.

The department of MSME is also supportive to the activities of the association and I see a more vital and biggerrole for them in the progress and welfare of our industries and look forward to their patronage to this growingsector.

This year we will see the happening of K Fair at Germany, and I am sure large number of our members willtravel to visit K 2010 and utilize this opportunity and derive immense benefit from the tremendous growthopportunities offered by the World’s biggest plastic fair.

M. JayadevPresident

555

Secretary Report ...Dear Members,

Once again I am here to appraise you about the important events and activities taken upand successfully accomplished by the office bearers with active support from all the workingcommittee members of the Association.

On August 9th, 2010, APPMA organized a seminar on Design Sensitization in NKM’s Grand Hotel, Somajiguda,Hyderabad, which was funded by the National Institute of Design. Basically, this was a sensitization seminar ondesigns which will be followed by a series of follow up seminars which will help members to finally develop themoulds. The guest of Honor Mr.N.T.Naidu, Deputy Director MSME, Hyderabad informed the members, presentat the seminar, that financial assistance schemes were available for entrepreneurs’ benefit. A detailed reporthas been incorporated in this bulletin for the benefit of members.

Another seminar, Plastics for Green Buildings, was conducted by APPMA on September 24, 2010 at HICC. Thesponsors of this seminar were Reliance Industries, Indofil Chemicals, Gruber Extrusions and Battenfeld Cincinnati,NCL Wintech and Sudhakar PVC and Elumatec India. The technical sessions were very informative and interesting.The question answer session also helped the members to clear their doubts. I am sure that many membersmight have benefited by attending this seminar.

APPMA has started the exercise of taking a delegation, comprising of 40 members, to the K2010 exhibition atDusseldorf, Germany, from 27th October to 3rd November, 2010.

Friends, we have been receiving complaints from members from Tenali, Guntur, Eluru, Kurnool, Kakinada andSrikakulam regarding harassment and burning of plastic articles. We have taken this issue with the concernedauthorities in the government and they have assured us of all assistance. We have received an assurance fromthe Principal Secretary, Mr.Appa Rao, that he will circulate the letter regarding GO No.158 dated 4.4.2006wherein as per the GO No.158 banning of plastics is below 20 microns only. Hence harassment from localauthorities will be controlled as they have misread the GO.

In this regard, on behalf of the Association, I once again request all our members to stick to rules laid down bythe Government and do business as law provides and keep in mind the interest of their fellow manufacturersbecause due to a few illegal manufacturers the whole industry is suffering.

Wishing you all the Best

J. VenugopalHon.Secretary

A request from TreasurerDear members,Please remit the annual subscription fee of the association forthe year 2010-2011 together with past dues if any, immediatelyto help the association to serve you better.

Narendra BaldwaTreasurer

666

Seminar on Plastics for Green BuildingsOrganized By: APPMA, 24th September’10

The seeds for the event on Plastics for Green Buildingswere sown in June when Sh. KPN visited HYD RO.

During his meet with APPMA, Sh. Amrit Patel, thenPresident, APPMA made the point that there was a hugescope for developing the latent PVC profile market.

Sh. KPN emphasized that plastics promote green buildings& also assured that RIL would provide all the requisitesupport with the involvement of the local HYD office.

The press covered the event extensively & lot of publicitywas generated

The event was covered in the following leading national/vernacular newspapers– Sakshi– Vartha– The Hindu– Prajashakthi– Businessline– Andhra Jyoti– Hindi Milap

The following TV channels covered the event and telecastthe same– RK news– HMTV

The event generated huge initial interest with majornewspapers both English as well as regional covering theevent extensively.

Andhra Pradesh Plastic Manufacturers Association in co-

ordination with Reliance Industries Limited planned theseminar on “Plastics for Green Buildings” in order to

highlight the various applications of plastics and how theyare useful for Green Buildings.

The event was organized on the 24th of Sep’10 at HICC,Novotel, Hyderabad and was sponsored by raw materialmanufacturers, machinery manufacturers, additivemanufacturers & window/door profile manufacturers.

The event was very well attended with a total of 170 peopleattending the seminar.

The attendees were across a wide spectrum with peoplefrom the building/construction industry, governmentdepartments, infrastructure companies, plastic processors,fabricators all making their presence felt.

Out of the total attendees 25% were Builders & Architects

Breakup of the attendees is given below:

777

The event was inaugurated by APPMA members and theGuest of Honor. Shri. D. Chandra Shekhar, Director, MSME –Development Institute by lighting the ceremonial lamp

Guest of Honor, Shri D Chandrasekhar said that “Ministryprovided funding support to MSME units that adopt energyefficient technologies. A grant of 25 per cent of the projectcost subject to a ceiling of Rs 10 lakhs would be given toMSME units that adopt energy efficient technologies.”

He also said that “As per a study, green buildings can save35 per cent of the carbon emissions, 40 per cent of water,50 per cent of energy and 70 per cent solid waste duringits lifetime”.

The presentations from Gruber Battenfield were given byMr. Gerhard Dunzinger from Gruber & Mr. Divyesh Shah fromCincinatti Battenfield.

The topic of their presentation was “ Green Machinery forGreen Building Products”

The presentations were on the latest extrusion technologiesin pipe & profile extrusion.

Mr. Divyesh Shah & Mr. Gruber Dunzinger took us throughthe entire cycle of uPVC profile extrusion machineryhighlighting the energy efficient extrusion program.

So new innovative machines are available for uPVC windows& pipes now.

The presentations from Indofil were given by Mr. SanjayNawander & Mr. Sunil kadam.

The topic of their presentation was “PVC additives for GreenBuilding Products”

The importance of additives in plastics processing is wellrecognized and well practiced

Mr. Sunil Kadam & Mr. Sanjay Nawander gave an insightinto the range of reliable additives which make uPVCprocessing easier, simpler & also impart adequateproperties.

It was highlighted in their speech that how regional climaticconditions could influence the profile formulations

It would be worth mentioning that all the additivesindicated by them are manufactured in India.

The presentation from Elumatec was given by Mr. P.S. SatishKumar

The topic of the presentation was “New Technology WindowMaking”

Fabrication is the heart of Window Door profile supplychain.

The success of window market also depends on the degreeof sophistication of fabrication lines.

Mr. S. Kumar’s presentation gave an assurance that reliable,efficient and accurate fabrication lines are and will be madeavailable in India.

The presentation from NCL Wintech was given by Mr. AshvenDatla, Director.

The topic of the presentation was “uPVC doors & windows:How it works for Green”

Mr. Ashven Datla in his presentation highlighted that theuPVC window market in India is on a very firm footing.Even though it is in nascent stage, it is all set to take off.

Mr Datla made a very valid point stating that air conditioned

888

buildings in India consume four times energy compared tothe developed world, due to inadequate attention givento the framing and sealing material used for windows anddoors.

In his presentation comparing uPVC with other traditionalmaterials he gave a strong message that uPVC Windowsare here in India to stay.

The presentation from NCL Wintech was given by Mr. AshvenDatla, Director.

The topic of the presentation was “uPVC doors & windows:How it works for Green”

Mr. Ashven Datla in his presentation highlighted that theuPVC window market in India is on a very firm footing.Even though it is innascent stage, it is allset to take off.

Mr Datla made a veryvalid point stating thatair conditionedbuildings in Indiaconsume four timesenergy compared to thedeveloped world, dueto inadequate attentiongiven to the framingand sealing materialused for windows anddoors.

In his presentation comparing uPVC with other traditionalmaterials he gave a strong message that uPVC Windowsare here in India to stay.

The presentation from NCL Wintech was given by Mr. AshvenDatla, Director.

The topic of the presentation was “uPVC doors & windows:How it works for Green”

Mr. Ashven Datla in his presentation highlighted that theuPVC window market in India is on a very firm footing.Even though it is in nascent stage, it is all set to take off.

Mr Datla made a very valid point stating that air conditionedbuildings in India consume four times energy compared tothe developed world, due to inadequate attention givento the framing and sealing material used for windows anddoors.

In his presentation comparing uPVC with other traditional

materials he gave a strong message that uPVC Windowsare here in India to stay.

Mr. Divyesh Shah & Mr. Gerhard Dunzinger of Battenfield &Gruber extrusion took us through the entire cycle of uPVCprofile extrusion machinery highlighting the energy efficientextrusion program. So any one interested in entering intothe profile extrusion business have very good options interms of the machinery available.

The importance of additives in plastics processing is wellrecognized and well practiced

Mr. Sunil Kadam & Mr. Sanjay Nawander of Indofil gave aninsight into the ranges of reliable additives which makeuPVC processing easier, simpler & also impart adequateproperties. It nicely came out in his speech that how

regional climaticconditions couldinfluence the profileformulations. It wouldbe worth mentioningthat all the additivesindicated by them aremanufactured in India..

India, one of thefastest growingeconomies provideshuge opportunities inthe infrastructuresector. The world is

awakening to the needs of energy efficient buildingsolutions and energy saving windows play a very importantrole in making buildings energy efficient. Mr. Ashven Datla,Director, NCL Wintech in his presentation highlighted thatthe uPVC window market in India is on a strong footing.Even though it is in nascent stage, it is all set to take off.

Mr. Datla made a very valid point that air conditionedbuildings in India consume four times energy compared tothe developed world, due to their inadequate attention toframing and sealing material used for windows and doors.In his presentation comparing uPVC with other traditionalmaterials he gave strong message that uPVC Windows arehere in India to stay.

Fabrication is the heart of Window Door profile supplychain. The success of window market also depends on thedegree of sophistication of fabrication lines. More and morefabrication machinery should be made available in Indiafor this industry to grow. Mr. S. Kumar’s presentation hasgiven us assurance that reliable, efficient and accuratefabrication lines are and will be made available in India.

999

Mr. S.S. Naik gave the overview about PVC market in India.Strong message of PVC as sustainable material was givenby them. Dr. Shreekanth Diwan took us through the entirelife cycle of plastic products giving us the message thatthey are by all sense Green.

A green building is an environmentally sustainable buildingdesigned, constructed & operated to minimize the totalenvironmental impacts.

Well designed green buildings will save money, increasecomfort & create healthier environments for people to live& work, using improved indoor air quality, natural daylight& thermal comfort.

Buildings having the following parameters are rated as green– Siting and structure design efficiency– Energy Efficiency– Water Efficiency– Material Efficiency– Indoor environment quality enhancement– Operations and maintenance optimization– Waste Reduction

Plastics in Building & ConstructionPlastics are Resource efficient, consume lower energies

throughout their life-cycle, are light and hence easy totransport and install, are recyclable at the end of theiruseful life are reasons enough to consider them as anintegral part of building & construction. From anenvironmental point of view plastics prevent deforestation.

Plastics are employed in myriad building and constructionapplications in the form of windows & doors, pipes for watermanagement, flooring & wall coverings, wires & cables,roofing, siding, decking, railings.

The positive response generated from the seminar needsto be channeled to promote green building concepts.

Builders & Architects to be followed up on continuous basisfor conversion to usage of plastics instead of traditionalmaterials

Develop new entrepreneurs/Increased focus on existing PVCprofile manufacturers.

Work closely with APPMA to highlight the benefits of plasticsto various government bodies

To promote plastics as the ideal material for use in theB&C /Infrastructure sector.

101010

111111

Press Releases

121212

131313

Green Brigade for Better RoadsThe Siliguri Municipal Corporation has planned to introduceGreen Police to help clear encroachments from thepavements in town, guide the residents on parking rulesand enforce plastic ban.”We are planning to introduceGreen Police, a group of volunteers from NGOs, to helpthe residents get hassle-free footpaths and parking. Theywill also guide them to avoid using plastic bags,” said deputymayor Nantu Pal.Pavements along Hill Cart Road, SevokeRoad and Bidhan Road, the three main roads in town, aremostly occupied by vendors. Often two-wheelers are parkedon the footpaths forcing pedestrians to use the main roads.The civic body will hold a meeting with the trade bodieshere.”I have already spoken to the Federation of Chambersof Commerce and Industries, north Bengal, and requestedthem to urge the members to keep the footpaths free ofgoods,” said Pal.”It is not always possible for police or thecouncillors to remove the encroachers and keep tabs onthem. Continuous monitoring is required, that is why wewill take the help of the volunteers,” he said.Pal addedthat he will hold a meeting with the NGOs here. “Afterthat we will approach the police for necessary guidelines.”According to the deputy mayor, the squad will have around50 volunteers.

Medical polymers industry:money in, money out

The medical plastics industry is set to expand rapidly overthe next decade taking up increasing proportions of GDP,as countries provide healthcare to an ageing population,access to medicine expands in developing regions and newtechnology is developed, writes Dr Sally Humphreys.

Some of the issues in using polymers in medicine weredebated at the latest AMI conference on Medical GradePolymers, which took place September 14-15, 2010 inPhiladelphia, USA.

The quality controls in place in the medical device industryare stringent for reasons of patient safety. The wholeindustry relies on timely communication between suppliersand manufacturers.

For example, under FDA regulations if there is a change inmanufacturing or polymer supplier then the situation mustbe notified and re-evaluated. If the change is regarded assignificant then more testing may need to be undertaken,which can delay or halt production of a device.

Most manufacturers require around a 2-year lead time fora change of polymer. Last years economic crisis left somecompanies in a difficult situation when suppliers entered

Chapter 11 proceedings or stopped supplying their approvedmaterials.

Vistakon, a supplier of contact lenses and part of theJohnson & Johnson group, is rigorous in its procurement ofmedical polymers. The company considers qualifyingalternate suppliers in case of unexpected failure. One ofthe big issues is the cost of qualification and the companystarts its process with a complete quality audit of apotential supplier. There is an FDA 30-day notice procedurefor registering an Alternate Qualified Supplier of a CriticalMaterial, however if the data submitted is incomplete thiscan be extended from six months onwards.

Monitoring shelf-life of polymers is important forperformance. Boston Scientific conducts a variety of teststo check materials for suitability for purpose, and putssafety measures in place. For example, there can bevariations in molecular weight distribution affecting overallproperties.

Tests for material performance include gel permeationchromatography (GPC) for molecular weight, capillaryrheometry for viscosity, melt flow index for ease of flow,differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) for thermaltransitions and qualitative analysis, and Fourier TransformInfrared Spectrometry (FTIR) for contamination andidentification.

Many factors can affect materials including transport andstorage conditions: as one example, polyamide is moisturesensitive.

In another instance a warning was issued that handling thematerial with propane-powered forklifts could give it a pinkcolour. Boston Scientific puts patient safety at the top ofdesign priorities, together with comfort and ease of usefor physicians. Cost effectiveness is becoming a big factorin current development. In some company takeovers alegacy device, which is not going to be developed further,is bought as part of the deal so the existing materials willbe kept in use.There is no value to the company in thisinstance in expensive validation of new suppliers.

Clariant International Masterbatch Business Unit has beenreviewing its place in the healthcare markets due to therisks of brand damage if problems arise, and has moved toa more rigorous approach.

The specialist knowledge-base for this industry is nowfocused in three locations in USA, Europe and Asia, all ofwhich are ISO13485 certified. Colour is being used in the

News Update

141414

industry for aesthetic and safety purposes. For example,different doses or types of drug containers can be color-coded. The home healthcare market is expanding aspatients receive medical support locally for convenienceand to relieve the load on the hospital system: this is leadingto more stylish casings and visible components.

For commodity polymer companies such as BasellPolyolefins, a LyondellBasell company, the volumes requiredby the medical industry are very small so it is not practicalto set aside whole plants just for that purpose. It would beimpractical to set up clean room procedures for a sitecovering 3-4 square miles. There are variations inpolyolefins from the use of different synthesis methodssuch as metallocene versus Ziegler-Natta catalysts, whichgive different grades with different molecular weightdistribution and combination with different additives. Allof these factors can significantly affect the properties ofthe polymers. Hence LyondellBasell has developed thePurell specialty healthcare grades.

Engineering and high performance plastics are supplied tothe medical markets by companies like SABIC InnovativePlastics. In line with many other polymer suppliers,applications are limited to less than 29 days body exposure,because the long-term implant industry is relatively highrisk in terms of liability. SABIC polycarbonate blends havebeen used in thin wall injection molded housings andpolyetherimide in subcuticular skin staplers, as twoexamples. The European regulations on Restriction ofHazardous Substances (RoHS) are now affecting healthcare,for example where lead is used in radiation shielding.Specialty compounds can be used to replace lead.

Biodegradable plastics have a role in temporary medicaldevices providing a function until the body is able torecover, for example in tissue scaffolding. ELLA-CS in theCzech Republic is using polydioxanone in gastrointestinaland tracheobronchial stents to maintain a patent lumen:gradual hydrolysis of the device removes it without surgicalintervention.

Meditech Medical Polymers has been working with nextgeneration UHMWPE. In the past the material did notcontain stabilisers or processing aids. Now a fewantioxidants have been approved for use including VitaminE (alpha tocopherol). The stabilized material needs lightbarrier packaging and there is increased potential forinclusions, color variation and cross-contamination.However it offers reduced degradation and maintenanceof mechanical properties. It is very expensive to change amaterial and the supplier and device manufacturer haveto agree who is taking responsibility. Again, communicationis key.

The Neuromodulation division at Boston Scientific isinvolved in production of stimulation leads, enclosures withfeedthroughs, and biocompatibility analysis. Polyurethaneis used in pacing and NeuroStim leads, based on polyetherPU. In the 1980s there were problems with the PU insulationof pacing leads caused by giant cells in the body releasinglysozyme, which in turn gives rise to free radicals, causingenvironmental stress cracking. Since that time, PUchemistry for implants has been improved by reducing theamount of soft domain and cutting the potential forhydrolytic cleavage. However, if a device is improperlyinstalled leading to tensile stress, for example by using avery tight suture, then issues can still arise: a suture sleevecan protect against this occurrence.

Aortech Biomaterials supplies PU with polydimethyl siloxane(PDMS) soft segments, which are more biostable and havegood oxidative stability. This is currently in use in over 1million pacemakers and defibrillators, as biliary and urinarystent coatings, and in cardiac and pulmonary cannulaapplications. Carbonate can be introduced into the PDMSto increase polarity and give lower hardness with hightensile properties.

Thermoplastic PU (TPU) is supplied by Lubrizol AdvancedMaterials: the business was acquired from BF Goodrich.The ISOPLAST grade has a flexural modulus up to2,200,000psi and very good low temperature impactproperties. It can be colored with masterbatch and is beingused as metal replacement. It has excellent chemicalresistance and has been tested with hospital disinfectantssuch as bleach and glutaraldehyde. It can be sterilized usingethylene oxide, gamma and electron beam irradiation. ThisTPU can be extruded into film with good barrier propertiesto oxygen. Impact modified ISOPLAST is being used inapplications such as ultrasound paddle handles and flexiblejoints with thin walls. A glass-reinforced grade was used asmetal replacement in an abdominal retractor where thenumber of parts was reduced from 49 to 8 and the risk ofcuts from the sharp metal was eliminated.

The body is one of the most hostile environments formaterials and hence ultra high performance plastics havea role. Evonik Industries is producing new VESTAKEEP PEEKfor medical devices, launched in 2009 for permanentimplants. It has a Master File with the FDA for devices andwill assist manufacturers.

Oxford Performance Materials produces one of the ultimateperformance plastics, polyether ketone ketone (PEKK), andproduction is planned to increase in the US and France asthe company has been acquired by Arkema. PEKK can beamorphous or crystalline and has good chemical resistance,high mechanical properties and excellent electrical

151515

resistance. Density is similar to cortical bone. In somesituations it can be applied as a melt giving good adhesion.The amorphous material has been used in a cranial clip; itis also thermoformable. There are OsteoFab grades fordigital manufacturing.

DuPont Performance Polymers supplies polymers to themedical market for general healthcare applications andthose involving brief or temporary (no more than 29 days)implantation.The companys healthcare products includePBT, PET, POM, polyamide, and some elastomers. Thecompany is developing these materials from renewablesources as well. One example of use is the Niagara footdeveloped in Toronto for victims of landmines, whichrequires low flexural fatigue, high stress resistance, highflow for manufacturing thick parts, excellent impactproperties, and storage and release of energy. Hytrel TPC-ET, a thermoplastic polyester elastomer, was used in thisproject and the device was tested to 2 million cycles (twicethe strides of an average adult per year), over 3330N heelload and over 2790N for toe loads.

Tritan from Eastman Chemical has been tested for medicalapplications using a variety of procedures. It performs wellunder irradiation and ethylene oxide sterilization includinggood color stability. It is close to polycarbonate in toughness(Notched Izod test) and has been tested for chemicalresistance to lipids and strong disinfectants. It is currentlybeing tested for use in a new wireless monitoring deviceworn on the arm.

Parylene coatings provide excellent chemical resistanceand this is attracting attention from other industriesincluding aerospace. Specialty Coating Systems providesthese vapor phase polymers for medical devices. They arepara-xylylene based molecules and provide a chemical,moisture and fluid barrier between the body and the device,as well as being biocompatible. The material is vaporized,pyrrolysed and deposited. In a new development, thecompany is also making tiny devices from this material bydeposition, such as an intraocular pressure sensor basedon a spiral tube, and micro cortical implants with a cableand shanks which are completely flexible.

The effects of gamma irradiation, electron beam andethylene oxide sterilization on silicone rubber have beenstudied by Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics. It is widelyused in medical devices due to its biocompatibility andpurity. Liquid silicone rubber, platinum cured highconsistency rubber (HCR) and the more rigid peroxide curedHCR were all examined. Both gamma and electron beamtreatment lead to a rise in tensile modulus and a reductionin tensile elongation and tear strength. Ethylene oxide hadminimal effects on the physical properties.

Sterilization procedures are designed to kill pathogens suchas bacteria and fungi, however there can still be problemswith chemical and particulate contaminants on medicaldevices, which are not removed by these methods. TheCambridge Polymer Group is working on such cleanlinessissues for medical devices. The first case study was carriedout for Sulzer Orthopedics, which noticed poor tissueingrowth with a particular batch of titanium acetabularshell hip devices. The problem was tracked to a pyrogencontaminant, and after examining manufacturing facilitiesthe source was found to be endotoxins in the sump waterof a machine shop. Devices cleaned by nitric acidpassivation did not show the same level of problems.Cambridge Polymer Group is now looking at methods ofidentifying substances on explants as a way of finding thesources of failure using techniques such as FTIR and gaschromatography-mass spectrometry (GCMS).

New materials can take a long time to develop. Altrika hasadopted chemical synthesis technology from thepharmaceutical industry, High Throughput CombinatorialChemistry, for rapid polymer research. The in-house librarycomprises over 2,000 polymers including blends ofbiodegradable plastics. Materials are formed and depositedin a microarray glass slide containing 100 different plastics.The slide is dried and tested, for example, for adhesion todifferent types of cell lines. The company has been involvedin developing a corneal bandage to promote growth ofreplacement epithelial cells with Moorfields Eye Hospital.It is working on blood filtration polymer coatings toselectively remove white cells. A third product is Myskin,which is a proprietary cell delivery membrane for woundcover.

The potential for polymers in the medical andpharmaceutical industries is endless as new materials comeon stream.

AMI is organizing two events in 2011 to discuss the newtrends and offer networking opportunities. Medical DevicePolymers 2011 will take place June 7-9 at the Maritim Hotelin Cologne, Germany and Medical Grade Polymers 2011 issituated at the Hilton City Avenue, Philadelphia from 13-14 September 201.

Europe needs new markets forexporting plastic scrap

By Steve TolokenEurope’s plastic recycling industry is too dependent onChina as a market and should work to open up scrap exportsto places like India, the Middle East and Africa, accordingto the head of one of Europe’s plastics recycling tradegroups.

161616

China and Hong Kong together took 90 percent of Europe’s7.3 billion pounds of plastic scrap exports in 2009, leadingto a “serious” dependency for European recyclers, saidSurendra Borad, chairman of the plastics committee of anindustry trade group, the Bureau of International Recycling.

“If the Chinese plastics market sneezes, we get a cold; ifthe Chinese get a cold, we develop fever; if the Chineseget a fever, then we develop pneumonia,” he said in arecent BIR statement.

In an Aug. 12 e-mail to Plastics News, he said Brussels-based BIR is working to open markets in India, for example,and believes that country could easily import up to 2.2billion pounds of plastic for recycling a year — five timescurrent levels.

Borad is also chairman of Gemini Corp. NV in Antwerp,Belgium.

The difficulty with India, according to Borad, is that thegovernment considers plastic scrap a waste, rather than apotential resource, so it limits imports. Only about 30companies in Indiacan bring in plastic waste, other thanPET, for recycling, he said.

“BIR is regularly in contact with the environment ministryin India, for example, to ensure that there should not befresh restrictions,” said Borad, who was re-elected as headof BIR’s plastics committee in June. “BIR was very successfulin reducing the restrictions on imports of metal scrap.”

Besides PET, India has strong demand now for clean lowdensity polyethylene, he said.

India’s position contrasts with China’s, where about 15.4billion pounds of recycled plastic are imported each yearbecause that country considers it a potential resource,Borad said.

Chinese imports of plastic scrap from Europe hit 7.3 billionpounds last year, up from 4.94 billion pounds in 2008, asEuropean consumption dropped and market dynamicspushed more exports to China, he said.

Other plastics recycling groups in Europe have taken adifferent point of view than BIR’s, suggesting that Europeangovernments instead should limit exports of scrap to Asia.

In a statement last year, the Brussels-based EuropeanPlastics Recyclers trade group said the increase in exportswas hurting European recyclers, and it said Chinese andother Asian recyclers had an advantage because theyoperate with much weaker labor and social standards,including in some cases using child labor.

But Borad said BIR argues to European government agenciesthat they should not restrict free trade: “It is not possibleto recycle all kinds of plastics scrap in Europe.”

He said there should be more effort toward standardizationof scrap.

Plastic scrap imports to China from all countries went upto 3.97 billion pounds from January to March of this year,but there has been slack in Chinese imports in the lastthree months.

He said exports to the Middle East and Africa could bedeveloped but will take more time.

BIR represents 700 companies and 40 national associationsinvolved in recycling many different materials.

Bilcare buying Ineos film unitBy Dan Hockensmith

Ineos Group has agreed to sell its global films businessto India’s Bilcare Ltd. for about $132 million.

The deal — which is to take place under German lawbetween subsidiaries Ineos Films AG of Staufen, Germany,and newly formed Bilcare AG — will include only the filmsunit of Lyndhurst, England-based Ineos. The group’s PVCcompounds and Barex resin units will continue to operateas part of Ineos, spokesman Richard Longden said in anAug. 4 telephone interview. Barex has a plant in Lima, Ohio.

“The Ineos Films business is no longer core to the IneosGroup as the company focuses its attention on its large-scale petrochemicals businesses,” Ineos CEO Iain Hogansaid in an Aug. 2 news release.

Ineos Films manufactures products for pharmaceuticalblister packaging; films for printing and decoration; filmsfor thermoformed packaging; shrink film for sleeves,capsules and credit cards; and specialty films.

The business employs around 1,300 at manufacturing sitesin Staufen, Bötzingen, and Weissandt-Gölzau, Germany;Castiglione Olona and Fucine di Ossana, Italy; Nasik andThane,India; and Delaware City, Del.

According to Longden, the unit produces around 120 tonsof films annually and has yearly sales of about $316 million.

Pune, India-based Bilcare offers pharmaceutical packaging,and research, global clinical-trial supplies and services,and anti-counterfeiting technology. Its facilities arein India, Singapore, the U.S. and the United Kingdom.

171717

A source at Bilcare would not comment on whether thereare any plans to downsize the North American workforceas a result of the Ineos acquisition. The source said thathistorically Bilcare has upgraded equipment and addedpersonnel as it acquired properties, while leaving localmanagement in place.

The Ineos-Bilcare deal is expected to be completed at theend of August, subject to necessary regulatory filings andapprovals. Meanwhile, Heinz Gaertner has been appointedexecutive chairman of Bilcare AG in Germany.

Ineos reported about $47 billion in 2009 sales. It employsabout 16,000 at 64 plants in 14 countries.

Founded in 1995, Bilcare has annual sales of about $62million. It employs 500. Its Bilcare Inc. unit is based inPhoenixville, Pa.

Engineers’ radical thinking leads toNano

By Rhoda MielWhen India’s Tata Motors Ltd. set out to make the world’sleast-expensive passenger car, it knew it had to do morethan simply remove parts from an existing vehicle.

It had to rethink every aspect of the car to meet a targetof selling a complete vehicle for $2,500. That required whatWarren Harris, president and chief operating officer of TataTechnologies Inc., calls “frugal engineering” — somethingtraditional carmakers may not understand.

“A low-cost mindset is part of the DNA of an Indianengineer,” Harris said Aug. 3, during the Center forAutomotive Research’s Management Briefing Seminars inTraverse City. “If [a typical auto-maker] was challengedwith the responsibility of coming up with a low-cost vehicle,what they would probably do is position a price point thatwas just below what was previously the lowest-pricedvehicle in the market,” he said.

They would then take out just a bit of the content — perhapspower windows or electronic locks — but still fill the carwith enough high technology and aesthetics to competewith other cars on the market.

“It would be very difficult for a Western [automaker] tocome up with a type of disruptive innovation that delivereda vehicle at 50 percent of what was previously the cheapestvehicle in the market,” Harris said.

Tata Technologies, based in Novi, Mich., is a sister companyto Tata Motors, the creator of the Nano, which went onsale in India in 2009. Both firms are part of Mumbai, India-

based Tata Group. Tata Technologies supplied engineeringsupport to Tata Motors throughout the development of thecar.

To meet founder Ratan Tata’s promised price, Harris saidthe automaker and its suppliers kept in mind the car’sintended customers: motorcycle and scooter drivers whowanted an enclosed, safer vehicle but could not affordcars already on the market. The targeted drivers wouldnot be looking for a conventional car, but very basictransportation at a low cost.

After early discussions about whether to use plastic bodypanels, the company stuck with a steel body but minimizedcurves to reduce the number of dies needed to make eachpanel.

The fuel-filler cap is under the hood, eliminating the costof developing a separate access panel, and it is close tothe fuel tank, reducing the amount of plastic tube andfiller lines, Harris said.

The instrument panel is a one-piece, injection molded hardthermoplastic with no extra trim and no glove box, trimmingpart and tooling costs, he said. The same mold and partscan be used for both the left-hand- and right-hand-driveversions of the car.

“In a conventional vehicle, seats are heavily sculpted, andthey benefit from a tremendous amount of padding,” Harrissaid.

“They also have a fairly sophisticated reclining and travelsystem. For aesthetics, there are a large number of plastictrim parts.”

The Nano’s seats use minimal urethane foam padding. Thecar uses plastic trim only to cover metal gears that pose asafety issue because of sharp edges or spots where fingerscan get caught. The headrest is part of the seat, savingthe cost of an additional part.

“What [Tata Motors] did was position the price becausethat was what the customer could afford,” Harris said.“Then they challenged themselves to take cost out.”

Shredding can reduce waste storagecosts and generate additional revenueIt is now more than ten years since the EU Landfill Directiveset mandatory targets for the UK to cut landfill volumes orface hefty fines, and while some people face the deadlineswith optimism, there is concern elsewhere that the UK’soverall approach to waste management is trailing behindcontinental Europe.

181818

There was a time when the market for industrial wasteshredding systems was limited to a specific range ofcompanies with largely heavy duty waste disposalrequirements. Technological innovation, landfill directivepressures and the drive for cost efficiencies have combinedto make waste shredding an important consideration forcompanies that before didn’t even think it possible.

As waste technology becomes ever more innovative,revolutionary machines have the capability of shredding adiverse range of materials. Clients with confidential waste,for example, can now physically shred their hard drivesrather than just wiping the information clean. Elsewhere,larger waste companies can now shred historically difficulthousehold materials such as mattresses and carpets, withthe same equipment to process their normal waste streams.

But technological advancement is not the only reason thatshredders are being used in more and more varyingscenarios.

An increasing number of companies are faced with the needto reduce waste storage costs and more importantlyalleviate the pressures of landfill charges. So whilst theidea of shredding old wooden pallets perhaps doesn’t standout as the most pioneering waste managementdevelopment, when you consider that just 6 to 9 tonnes ofshredded woodchip in a biomass burner generates enoughenergy to heat a 3000 sqm industrial unit for an entireweek, the economic and environmental benefits take on alife of their own.

Wood is a non-hazardous material that should not – andcannot, by law – end up in the general waste stream. Sorather than stockpiling pallets as a waste product, factories– armed with information like this – can begin to see theadvantages of either creating their own ‘renewable’ energysource or supplying it to a third party as a reduced-sizerecyclable.

Even where waste is approved for landfill, the associatedcharges are high. Therefore working towards 100%recyclability now, rather than waiting to be pushed byGovernment directive, is undoubtedly the cheaper optionin the long run.

Of course ‘the long run’ is part of the issue, as it is verytempting to ignore EU landfill diversion initiatives whilewe struggle for economic stability. But whether or notbusinesses feel ready and able to exercise their corporatesocial responsibility and reduce their environmental impact,current unprecedented pressures on the Government andwaste management industry to find alternative solutionsfor utilising waste are not about to disappear.

Last year the UK, with a population of 60.5 million, hasonly 24 EfW plants compared to environmentally consciousDenmark, which has 32 plants for a population of fivemillion. A survey by international legal practice Norton Rosehas also revealed that more than two thirds (69%) of seniorwaste sector stakeholders believe the UK will miss the 2013landfill reduction target.

There is however still chance to catch up. News that Franceand Germany have already been able to meet their EUtargets sends a clear message that it can be done – providingthe UK embraces innovative waste processing technologiesin the same way.

And encouragingly, there are signs that this is beginning tohappen. For example, the excitement surrounding RefuseDerived Fuel (RDF) continues to grow, as evermorerevolutionary ways to process Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)are sought by clients.

The innovative composting process of anaerobic digestion(AD) also presents significant opportunities for businesses,especially as biogas fuels come into sharper focus as apotential contributor to the future energy mix. After placingused waste food products – that have been shredded andscreened at pre-treatment stage – into vats for composting,the resulting rich biomass gas (methane and carbon dioxide)can be harvested for use as fuel.

Clearly, initial capital expenditure on such wastemanagement solutions is sizeable and a difficult cost tobear for a company that may already be struggling withthe impact of the current economic downturn.

What many companies fail to realise however, is thatpotentially difficult waste sorting and segregationprocesses, such as picking out plastics, wood and metalsthat would have gone to landfill five years ago, can nowbe handled with relative ease. So a small skip companythat sends its municipal solid waste (MSW), constructionand demolition waste, and other commercial and industrialwaste to a larger waste transfer processor, is effectivelythrowing money away.

Even if the company picks out the ‘easy recyclables’ beforesending it on, it is effectively turning its back on thepossibility of extracting further recyclable materials. Asmall company could receive up to 40 tonnes of plasticwaste a month for example, and with prices rising again,this would in fact provide a welcome additional revenuestream. This would easily cover the cost of the shreddingequipment required to make this a profitable recyclable.

Education about the possibilities is crucial to moving

191919

forward, yet Government assistance is sporadic – helpfulschemes pop up but then quickly fall by the wayside. Theresponsibility perhaps therefore lies with the wastemanagement and transfer industry, to promote the benefitsof advanced technologies and be a constant source ofinformation and advice.

The industry should not exist solely to supply and distributemachinery. Rather, we have a duty of care to share ourinsight and help clients design efficient and cost-effectivewaste management processes and solutions. Such advicewill not only reap considerable rewards for clients, but itwill enable the industry to stake a much deserved claim onthe contribution it is making to environmentalimprovement.

Recycle old or unwanted CDs, DVDsand games for cash

It is estimated that 2500 tonnes of CDs are discarded andsent to landfill each year, with tens of millions more simplyleft lying around unplayed. musicmagpie.com gives peoplethe opportunity to quickly and easily convert these unusedCDs into hard cash instead of simply throwing them away,helping to reduce the overall number sent to landfill eachyear.

musicmagpie.co.uk, is urging people not to throw awaytheir old or unwanted CDs, DVDs and games, but to recyclethem for cash, encouraging consumers to take an eco-friendly approach to generating extra money.

Rob Fox, Marketing Director for musicmagpie.co.uk, said:“As more people move to digital music players more CDswill be thrown away, heavily impacting on the environment.Recycling old CDs can help reduce this impact, so ratherthan throw away old albums why not do the green thingand recycle them?

“Even if the CDs aren’t in perfect condition they can berepaired – and even heavy scratches can be cleaned up.And if a CD is not reusable it is almost 100% recyclable.Musicmagpie gives music lovers a great way to get rid ofall their old CDs, DVDs and games and make some extracash, while doing their bit for the environment!”

Plastic ban at SecretariatThe general administration department has declared thestate Secretariat a “no plastic zone” and has issued ordersto ban the use of any plastic items across the Secretariatpremises. Anyone caught in violation of the order will befined Rs 500.

Even items like plastic tea glasses, tiffin packages and

carrybags will not be allowed. The Secretariate healthinspector has been appointed as the nodal officer to overseethe implementation of the ban.

“Taking a cue from the Environment Protection Act, 1986,a ban on the use of plastic has been imposed in theSecretariat. In fact, there should be a ban on the use ofplastic in all public places, but a separate notification isneeded from the government for that,” said the principalsecretary of general administration (political), Mr R.M.Gonela. He asked ministers and their personal secretariesto follow the instructions.

The special protection force, which looks after theSecretariate security, has been asked to implement theban and bring violators to the notice of the nodal officer.“No exceptions will be made even for higher officials andpolitical leaders who visit the Secretariat. If anybody isfound littering, he/she will be fined immediately,” said MrAnwar Basha, the chief security officer of the Secretariat.

It was Chetana, a cultural organisation in the Secretariat,which took the initiative to convince the government toissue a notification making the Secretariat a plastic freezone.

Dirty money myth busted’The ‘dirty money’ myth seems to have finally beendispelled, after a new study has revealed that banknotesdon’t pick up enough bacteria to be dangerous. For thestudy, an international team, led by Ballarat University,has analysed banknotes from at least ten nations and foundthese are not contaminated with dangerous levels ofbacteria, the ‘Foodborne Pathogens and Disease’ journalsaid. Lead researcher Dr Frank Vriesekoop said: “The richerand more developed countries had fewer bacteria on theirmoney than poorer countries. “Importantly, nowhere in theworld were alarming levels of pathogenic bacteria foundon money. We also found the age of the banknotes, andthe material of which they are made will affect the extendof contamination of that money.” The international studyincluded researchers from ten universities and researchinstitutes. A total of 1280 currency notes were collectedfrom food outlets such as foodshops and cafeterias andscreened to ascertain the presence of bacteria. Thecountries where the research was conducted includeAustralia, Burkina Faso, China, Ireland, Mexico,Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, the UK and the US.“The older notes are more wrinkled, so that dirt andbacteria can easily nestle in the folds of the notes. “Thematerial the banknotes are made of was also found to beimportant. In most countries banknotes are made from acotton based material; while in Australia, New Zealand,and Mexico the banknotes are made from a polymer

202020

material. “We found that notes made from polymermaterial carried significantly less bacteria compared tothe notes based on cotton,” Dr Vriesekoop said.

New fibre optics tech to speed upinternet

It may look like a piece of gel but it’s a new nano-basedtelecom technology “enabler” that can make computersand the internet hundreds of times faster.

The technology, that may be in use only five or 10 years inthe future, is being designed by Koby Scheuer of Tel AvivUniversity’s (TAU) School of Electrical Engineering.

Scheuer has developed a new plastic-based technology forthe nano-photonics market, which manufactures opticaldevices and components. His plastic-based “filter” is madefrom nanometre (a billionth of a metre) sized groovesembedded into the plastic.

When used in fibre optics cable switches, this new devicewill make our communication devices smaller, more flexibleand more powerful, he says.

“Once Americans have a fibre optics cable coming into everyhome, all communication will go through it - telephone,cable TV, the Internet,” adds Scheuer.

“But to avoid bottlenecks of information, we need toseparate the information coming through into differentchannels. Our polymeric devices can do that in the opticaldomain - at a speed, quality and cost that the semi-conductor industry can’t even imagine,” Scheuer says.

In the next decade, fibre optic cables that now run fromcity to city will feed directly into every individual home.When that technology comes to light, the new plastic-basedswitches could revolutionise the way we communicate.

“Right now, we could transmit all of the written text ofthe world though a single fibre in a fibre optics cable injust a few seconds,” says Scheuer.

“But in order to handle these massive amounts ofcommunication data, we need filters to make sense of theincoming information. Ours uses a plastic-based switch,replacing hard-to-fabricate and expensive semi-conductors.”

Semi-conductors, grown on crystals in sterile labs andprocessed in special ovens, take days and sometimes monthsto manufacture. They are delicate and inflexible as well,Scheuer explains.

“Our plastic polymer switches come in an easy-to-work-with liquid solution. Using a method called ‘stamping,’almost any lab can make optical devices out of the siliconrubber mould we’ve developed.”

His biggest hurdle, says Scheuer, is in convincing thecommunications industry that polymers are stablematerials.

“There is a lot of prejudice in this industry against plastics.But this approach could take us to a new level ofcommunication,” the researcher says, according to a TAUrelease.

He also notes that the process is not much different fromthe way that mass numbers of DVDs are produced in afactory - except Scheuer works on a nano, not a “giant”micro, scale.

His device can also be used in the gyros of planes, shipsand rockets; inserted into cell phones; and made a part offlexible virtual reality gloves so doctors could “operate”on computer networks over large distances.

These findings were published in Optics Express.

Device ready to fix broken heartScientists have devised a new strategy to fix the brokenheart — a tiny scaffold that they claim will repair damagedcardiac muscle cells and help prevent congestive heartfailure.

The University of Washington researchers, who developedthe scaffold, said the damage to heart muscle following aheart attack is irreversible and it leads to congestive heartfailure — the most common cause of death in developedcountries.

But the scaffold, which supports the growth of cardiac cellsand blood vessels in laboratory animals, can be a newstrategy to prevent people dying from congestive heartfailure, they said in a release.

“Today, if you have a heart attack there’s nothing thatdoctors can do to repair the damage,” said lead authorBuddy Ratner, a professor of bioengineering at theuniversity.

“You are, in essence, sentenced to a downhill slide,developing congestive heart failure that greatly shortensyour lifespan,” he said.

“Your body can’t make new heart cells, but what if we candeliver vital new cells in that damaged portion of theheart?”

212121

The tiny tubular porous scaffold, made from a jelly-likehydrogel material, can be injected into a damaged heart,where it will foster cell growth and eventually dissolveaway, the researchers said.

It not only supports cardiac muscle growth, but alsoaccelerates the body’s ability to supply oxygen andnutrients to the transplanted tissue.

The idea is, the scientists said, doctors can seed the scaffoldwith stem cells from either the patient or a donor, thenimplant it when the patient is treated for a heart attack,before scar tissue has formed.

The scaffold, a flexible polymer with interconnected poresall of the same size, also includes channels to accommodatecardiac cells’ preference for fusing together in long chains.

World’s smallest 3D map createdScientists claim to have created the world’s smallest threedimensional map, a map of the Earth, so small that 1,000of them could fit on one grain of salt.

A team at computer giant IBM accomplished this through anew, breakthrough technique which uses a tiny, silicon tipwith a sharp apex,100,000 times smaller than a sharpenedpencil,to create patterns and structures as small as 15nanometers at greatly reduced cost and complexity.

According to the scientists, this patterning technique opensnew prospects for developing nanosised objects in fieldssuch as electronics, future chip technology, medicine, lifesciences, and optoelectronics.

The complete 3D map of the world measuring only 22 by11 micrometers was “written” on a polymer. At this size,1,000 world maps could fit on a grain of salt. It is composedof 500,000 pixels, each measuring 20 nm2, and was createdin only 2 minutes and 23 seconds, the ‘Science and AdvancedMaterials’ journal reported.

The core component of the new technique, which wasdeveloped by a team of IBM scientists, is a tiny, very sharpsilicon tip measuring 500 nanometers in length and only afew nanometers at its apex.

“Advances in nanotechnology are intimately linked to theexistence of high-quality methods and tools for producingnanoscale patterns and objects on surfaces,” said physicist,Dr Armin Knoll, of IBM Research in Zurich. “With its broadfunctionality and unique 3D patterning capability, thisnanotip-based patterning methodology is a powerful toolfor generating very small structures,” he added.

Polymers That get Smaller WhenStretched May be Key to Plastic That

Heals Itself...A CHEMISTRY team in the US may have found the key toproducing a plastic that can heal itself.

Graduate student Jeremy Lenhardt was testing the limitsof polymers - molecules that form the basis for materialsin our daily lives such as silicon, rubber and neoprene - inthe chemistry lab at Duke University in North Carolina.

Working his way through a “library” of polymers, MrLenhardt stumbled across one particular species thatreacted bizarrely.

The polymers contained ring-shaped molecules called gem-difluorocyclopropanes, which, when stretched, remainedin that state for much longer than expected, beforeshrinking back to even smaller rings.

Yes, the more they were stretched, the smaller they got.

“To come across this discovery was a bit like havingChristmas in July. And then August. And then September,”Mr Lenhardt said.

I ran up to (collleague Stephen Craig’s) office (and said)‘Steve, something funny is going on here. Look at this!’”

Which is all well and good if you’ve got a chemistry degreeand understand the importance of “transition states”, butall that comes later.

For now, the important question is - will we ever sufferfrom flat tyres again?

What about mid-air explosions on planes? Will the holedisappear before we even see it?

Military applications?Mr Craig said it was far too early to predict how thediscovery would impact on our daily lives and was “reluctantto speculate” - but he did anyway.

“Imagine that when small holes are formed in a piece ofstretched plastic, the molecules in the plastic around ithave gone into this “overstretched” state, so that oncethe stretching is over, they pull back even closer than beforeand help to mend the hole,” he told NEWS.com.au.

“Behaviour like this could be one piece (out of many) thatcould help to make something like that happen.”

222222

He described the polymers’ behaviour as akin to whathappens to a rope during a tug-of-war.

The rope is stretched and inside the rope, some of thestrands break.

When the game’s over, the threads that are broken findeach other and reform in a different way to which they areformed, actually pulling the rope into a shorter length.

For all the chemists out there, it’s the length of thetransition state in the polymers that causes the mostexcitement, because it’s by studying these that they canunderstand how products are formed from chemicalreactions.

It’s the key to converting one type of substance into another,such as in the creation of a new drug or material.

Normally, transition states occur in less than a tenth of amillionth of a millionth of second - far too quickly to study.

The polymers that Mr Lenhardt studied held their transitionstates for much, much longer, Mr Craig said, opening upthe possibility of forming entirely new materials in a crisis.

“Perhaps these transition states that are trapped might beinduced to form new bonds in a plastic right before it ripscatastrophically,” he said.

“Maybe the greatest contribution of this work is that itopens up new possibilities to consider.

“I suspect that whatever impact Jeremy’s discovery hason future applications, it is most likely to be as a part ofsomething that we haven’t considered yet.”

Chinese plastic products associationsworry about RMB appreciation

The appreciation of Chinese currency may lead to greatloss of profit margins for plastic products export, warnedChina Plastics Processing Industry Association (CPPIA) andGuangdong Plastics Industry Association (GDPIA).

In a feature story done recently by “China Petroleum”,the industry journal reported that the two associationsestimated that export value would be down by RMB1.2billion, leading to a profit loss of close to RMB300 million,if RMB is forced to have 1% appreciation.

Based on the same calculation, the 3% or 5% appreciationwould result in RMB3.6 billion and RMB6 billion loss in exportvalue. The profits could be down by RMB800 million andRMB1.4 billion respectively.

“The appreciation may marginalize the pricecompetitiveness for Chinese products,” said Fu An,President of GDPIA, “Enterprises not possible to lower pricesare urged to focus on brand building by leveragingtechnology innovations. Only through high product qualityand popularity can their products win the market back.”

Jie Hongbo, an expert from the State-Owned AssetsSupervision and Administration Commission of the StateCouncil, said the export-oriented plastic product industryis sensitive to currency appreciation. With most dealsinvolving American and European buyers closed at the startof the year, Chinese product manufacturers have to bearhuge risks of losing money in the event of RMB appreciation.

Haitian breaks records in 2010 firsthalf

Haitian International, China’s largest injection mouldingmachine maker, reported record-setting sales and profitfor the first half of 2010 fuelled by strong demand in Chinaand growth in emerging markets such as Brazil, the MiddleEast and Asia.

The company reported that first half sales hit 3.23bn yuan(€369m) with a net profit of 542m yuan (€61m), and said itplans to build another machinery factory, this time in theNorth China city of Dalian, that it aims to open in 2012.

The figures suggest Haitian was able to maintain its strongperformance from the second half of 2009, its previousrecord six-month period, as the Chinese economy continuedto expand. Haitian said both sales and profits were up 30%so far in 2010 over the previous high.

Whether they can keep that up, company officials said theycould not be sure and noted some caution about the impactof the withdrawal of government stimulus spending aroundthe world and the European debt crisis. But overall thetone at the company is bullish.

“Looking to the second half of this year and beyond, weare confident that China’s [plastic injection mouldingmachine] market will continue to enjoy healthy growth onthe back of the sound economic development of the PRC,”Haitian said in a statement, arguing that demand from thebuilding materials, home appliance and automobile marketsremains solid in China.

The company said sales in the domestic China market inthe first half of the year were 76% above the pre-crisispeak of 1.34bn yuan (€153m), in the first half of 2008.About 70% of Haitian’s sales are within China.

While company officials acknowledged they are benefiting

232323

from China’s overall economic growth, they also argue theyare reaping benefits from decisions several years ago tofocus research and development on energy saving machines,such as its Mars series. Chinese government policy now isvery focused on energy efficiency, and that has forcedcompanies to upgrade equipment, said executive directorHelmar Franz.

“The most help to us is this really strengthened [Chinese]government policy toward energy savings,” he said. “Theywill just close down companies. They have selectedcompanies [in Ningbo, where Haitian is based] and theyjust won’t get the power. This is a big push for us.”

Haitian said its energy savings Mars series grew to 65% ofoverall sales, up from 40% in the first half of 2009, as aresult.

The company said it is now producing a faster version ofits Mars machine, the Pallas series, and said sales of its all-electric Venus series, made in both Ningbo and at its Zhafirsubsidiary in Germany, almost doubled in the first half ofthe year compared with all of 2009.

The Zhafir subsidiary plans to introduce its new Mercuryseries machines at the K 2010 Fair in Germany in October,as it tries to move into more expensive and moresophisticated machines.

Export sales also returned to pre-crisis levels for the firsttime, led by emerging economies, the firm said. Haitiansaid exports hit a historic high of 792.3m yuan (€60m), 17%above the previous high before the global economic crisis,with growth in particular coming from Brazil, where thecompany has an assembly plant, the Middle East includingIraq, other Asian markets, and Africa, Franz said.

The company also said it remains on track to open its newVietnam plant in first half of 2011, with a capacity toproduce about 1,000 machines a year initially. It will sellto the local market and to neighbouring countries such asIndonesia and Thailand. Mitsui Chemicals and Teijin integrate

domestic PET resin for bottlesoperation

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. and Teijin Limited, both Japanesechemical companies, announced earlier this month a basicagreement to form a joint-venture company that willintegrate their domestic PET (polyethylene-terephthalate)resin for bottles operations.

The new company will optimize the synergistic effects ofintegrating their PET resin operations from supply chains

to production, reinforce operational competitiveness,improve quality and cost competitiveness and enableinnovative solutions to better meet customer needs andmaximize overall corporate value.

The domestic PET resin market has become increasinglycompetitive due to decreased demand for bottledbeverages and growing imports of PET resin for bottles fromother Asian countries. To respond to these tighteningconditions, MCI and Teijin have been studying the potentialadvantages of integrating their PET resin operations andcapitalizing on synergistic effects ranging from researchand development to production and sales.

MCI has various PET-related operations, including theproduction of purified terephthalic acid (PTA), while Teijinproduces paraxylene (PX), a raw material used in theproduction of PTA, as well as produces PET resin for bottlesfor distribution by Teijin Chemicals Ltd.

Under the newly announced agreement, the joint-venturecompany will integrate production, marketing and sales,and production technology. In particular, it will reinforcethe total supply chain for PX and PTA production.

The merger will provide MCI with stable, competitivelypriced supplies of PX and create a stable domestic purchaserfor Teijinÿs PX.

The two companies will continue to pursue opportunitiesto maximize the synergistic effects of their collaborationand strengthen the cost advantages of their PET resin forbottles for enhanced corporate value and businesssustainability. Source : www.adsalecprj.com

Plastic recycling machine churns outplastic bricks from trash

Eco Factor: Machine recycles waste plastic by convertingit into bricks.

Dunedin man Peter Lewis has created a unique machinethat transforms discarded plastic into building blocks of amultimillion-dollar business. Christened the Byfusion, themachine turns raw plastic into compacted bricks that canbe used for garden retaining or landscaping walls.

The plastics from drink bottles and packaging boxes goesinto the machine, which washes, dries and compacts theplastic to convert it into 10kg bricks in just 45 seconds.The developer is also considering using the bricks to buildhurricane and tsunami shelters in the Pacific Islands orcreate cheaper sustainable housing in places where wood

242424

is scarce. Source : www.plastics.com

Bonaqua introduces “twistable” waterbottle

Bonaqua, a brand under global beverage group Coca-Cola,launched this month an extra-light, “twistable” waterbottle. The innovative design allows the small bottle to besqueezed and disposed after consumption, contributed tomuch space-saving and convenience in recycling.

With storage of 500ml, the body, cap and bottle of thenew bottle saves over 30% plastics material. The grip onthe bottle body is suited for twisting the bottle.

The new design encourages drinkers to keep the disposablebottle “handy” and save space of storing 86% in recycling.

Bangalore may have high-techgarbage recycling plants

Your city could soon have high-tech garbage recyclingplants. But you may have to pay a garbage cess.

Recycling plants, called waste convertors, will have two-tonne capacity. It will be set up on the lines of a solidwaste recycling plant inYelahanka. BBMP commissioner Siddaiah said, “Theseplants will only come up in areas where land can be acquiredwithout much hassle and residents do not object.”

He said: “It’s best to prepare citizens about paying garbagecess. However, a decision has to be taken up by the counciland cleared by the government.’’ “We are recycling wasteat two big plants near Hoskote and Doddaballapur. Now weplan to have at least two or three more,’’ he claimed.

Experts say decentralized garbage management’s successlies in its implementation. The Yelahanka garbage recyclingunit is facing issues for being labour-intensive andgenerating high power bills. The plant officials have to payRs 40,000 per month as electricity bill. It needs at least 10to 15 people to segregate one tonne of waste.

The Rs 1.74 crore-worth project can take a load of fivetonnes but is facing problems as residents don’t segregatewaste before sending it to the plant. “ Segregation has tobe done at source, people have to co-operate with us,otherwise it will gradually become more labour-intensive,”said Shivkumar C M, BBMP environmental engineer,Yelahanka.

Around 2,000 houses in Yelahanka are depending on thismodel. Since the plant is away from residential area, thestench doesn’t bother them much. “There will be a little

bit of stench around the plant but that can be managed ifthe process is maintained properly. We distributed greenand yellow baskets so that residents segregate waste beforehanding it over to us. The garbage is collected in coveredautos and transported to the plant,’’ he said.

The plant generates manure and recycles plastic waste ofaround 250 to 260 kg. The organic manure is supplied toBBMP horticulture department and is used for varioushorticultural parks. The pellets from the recycled plasticare sold.

SEGREGATION IS KEY Anil Derek, who was instrumental in developing theMalleswaram market organic waste-recycling unit, said award-wise recycling unit will have both advantages anddisadvantages. These will be labour-intensive andmaintenance costs can be high.

“The idea sounds romantic but where is the space todevelop these and who will maintain them? We should startwith one or two pilot projects where residents areenthusiastic and see how they are being maintained,” hesaid.

According to former Karnataka Pollution ControlBoard chairman H C Sharathchandra, the law has a provisionof levying a garbage management cess that can be usedfor maintenance of such plants. “If units in every ward arenot maintained and waste is not segregated at source, thenthey will become dumpyards or breeding grounds formosquitoes and strays,’’ he said.

S N Balasumramanium, president, Garbage ContractorsAssociation, said the Municipal Solid Wastes (Managementand Handling) Rules are not followed. “Some groupssegregate waste but almost all households don’t knowanything about segregation.’’

RESIDENTSPEAK According to N Mukund of Citizen Action Forum andJayanagar 5th Block Residents Welfare Association, “It is agreat proposal but the government should make garbagesegregation at source mandatory. It won’t be viable ifpeople don’t maintain these plants. I think they shouldstart it in some wards first on a pilot basis to check how itworks. The idea should be presented to all corporators indetail and see how they can maintain it,” he said.

Residents such as Major Pramod Kumar of KoramangalaInitiative are enthusiastic about the idea. “People don’tknow much about these plants. I have seen these plantsand I know that they don’t stink. It is only a matter ofperception. These plants will be located closer to

252525

residential areas and the only problem I see is that thegarbage collecting trucks are going to line up near thehouses. These should be maintained regularly. We compostour waste regularly at home. Other residents can also trythat and use the manure for gardens or at least segregateit before handing over,” he said.

HOW IT’S DONE NOW * City generates more than 5,000 tonnes of garbage

every day

* Of this, 600 tonnes is handled by Mandur landfill site,105 tonnes by Seemasandra landfill, 350 atMavallipura dumpyard and 30 tonnes by Terra firmunit

* Nearly 4,000 tonnes of waste isn’t managed and isdumped at several open spaces in the city

According to the latest study conducted by the departmentof environmental sciences, Bangalore University, thepollution in these landfills is way above tolerance levels.

The physico-chemical analysis of leachate (any liquidmaterial that drains from land or stockpiled material)sample at Mandur site shows the presence of microrganismssuch as E.Coli, iron bacteria, Vibrio spp, Streptococcus sppis very high, which can make populations vulnerable tovarious diseases.

Lawmaker Blasts Plastics TradeAssociation for Falsities

As the California Senate sits poised to vote on what couldbe game-changing legislation in the American battle tocontrol plastic waste, the author of the Single-Use BagReduction Act (AB 1998), California Assemblymember JuliaBrownley, delivered a blistering expose of the false figuresbeing used by the plastics industry trade association, theAmerican Chemistry Council (ACC), to oppose her bill.

Assemblymember Brownley appeared at UCLA’s JamesBridges Theater to address a crowd gathered for the PlasticPollution Coalition’s screening of the documentary BagIt! and other short films concerning the environmental andeconomic impacts of single-use plastic bags.

Brownley played radio ads, television ads and showedenlarged images of mailers all being employed by The ACCin an attempt to defeat the largest alliance of supportersever amassed in California to support single-use bagreduction. Environmental groups like Heal the Bay, a SantaMonica based ocean protection non-profit that conductsvolunteer beach clean-ups in the Los Angeles Area, havelong been seeking legislative solutions to the plastic bag

pollution that inundates California rivers, storm drains,beaches and our offshore waters.

However, the present legislative effort, Julia Brownley’sAssembly Bill 1998, is the first to attract the support ofthe California Grocers Association, labor unions, and a widevariety of businesses. EvenHollywood has voiced its supportfor the legislation. The ACC is spearheading opposition tothe proposed legislation.

The ACC advertisements are misleading in many ways,according to Assemblymember Brownley. The ads predicta loss of jobs when relatively few single-use plastic bagsare made in California and there is the opportunity fornew green jobs producing reusable bags in this state tomeet a burgeoning need.

In addition, the ads talk about a new bureaucracy whennone is called for in this legislation. The ads suggest thatCalifornia will be deforested because people will switch topaper bags when the impact of similar legislation in otherjurisdictions has been a very successful switch to reusablebags, not paper bags. AB 1998 would also up the post-consumer recycled content of paper bags to save trees.

Despite claims made by the ACC, California will actuallysave money with this legislation as millions of dollars ofour state and local budgets are currently used to fund parkand beach clean-ups, to clean storm drains and roadways,and to landfill plastic bags. Finally, the ACC ads fail tonote that provisions are made in AB 1998 to supply reusablebags to individuals who cannot afford them.

The ACC used similar tactics, spending millions to kill anordinance in Seattle, and the stakes for the plastics industryare much higher with the proposed statewide ban inCalifornia. However, California is already home to severallocal plastic bag bans, and many other jurisdictions planto enact them in the near future after recovering fromACC lawsuits and ACC backed legislation prohibiting feeson plastic bags in California.

Some jurisdictions have been sued by the ACC requiringthem to produce Environmental Impact Reports (EIRs)evaluating any environmental impacts of banning plasticbags, a seemingly perverse use of the EIR requirement.Los Angeles County recently issued a draft EIR that findspositive environmental benefits by reducing plasticpollution through its proposed legislation. Many businessessupport a statewide ordinance as more business-friendlythan a patchwork of local regulations that are not uniform.

Plastic Bags are the number one consumer product inAmerica. Most were made in China until they werebanned inthat country in 2008 for their costly environmental damage.

262626

Mexico City also recently banned plastic bags joining morethan 40 jurisdictions worldwide that ban single-use plasticbags, amounting to more than 25% of the world’spopulation.

The Plastiki In July, eco-adventurer David de Rothschild and his crewended their 130-day voyage across the Pacific from SanFrancisco to Sydney in Plastiki, crafted from 12,500 plasticbottles. Their journey helped bring attention to the problemof plastics in the ocean, particularly the massive, swirlingisland of plastic in the Pacific called theGreat PacificGarbage Patch.

The adventurer and environmentalist David de Rothschildand a handpicked crew of leading scientists, adventurersand creatives are to set sail over 10,000 nautical milesacross the Pacific from San Francisco to Sydney on a 60-foot catamaran made from post consumer plastic waterand soda bottles and self-reinforced PET.

By undertaking this daring expedition over three months,David and his Plastiki crew are on a mission to inspire,educate and activate individuals, communities andbusiness’s to start moving towards a smarter moresustainable planet 2.0 way of living. Its time to rethinkwaste as a resource.

Plastic bag ‘incubator’ saves preemieA paramedic in Britain saved the life of a baby girl born 14weeks ahead of schedule by building amakeshift incubator out of a plastic bag.

Sophie Thomlinson weighed just about 600 grams when shewas born in the back of an ambulance as her mother Emily,29, was being driven to hospital during a blizzard earlierthis year.

The premature baby was in need of an incubator but theequipment is too large to be installed in most ambulances,reports the Telegraph.

But paramedic Rob Dalziel, 37, was able to keep her moistby wrapping her in a yellow plastic bag usually used fordisposing of hazardous medical supplies.

He then used towels to cocoon the child and keep her bodytemperature at a safe level and forced air into her lungs toensure she kept breathing as the ambulance continued onto Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading.

She spent two weeks in the hospital’s intensive treatmentunit’s ‘Hot Room’ before being transferred to the HighDependency Unit at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.

Four months later Sophie has been allowed home with hermother and father Peter Hazzard, 27, in Wheatley, Oxon. Emily said, “I was in a lot of pain and quite stressed notknowing what was going to happen. Giving birth 14 weekspremature is not ideal, especially on the side of the road.”

“I was really worried and I did not know if Sophie wouldstill be alive when we reached the hospital,” she added.

In a 1st, experts create plasticantibodies to fight antigens

In a breakthrough study, researchers at UC Irvine havedeveloped the first “plastic antibodies” and successfullyintroduced them into the blood of mice to halt the spreadof deadly bee venom.

Researchers from the University of California at Irvine whoworked on the project along with scientists from StanfordUniversity and Japan’s University of Shizuoka, creatednanoparticle-size plastic polymers to encase melittin, atoxic peptide in bee venom that causes cells to rupture.Large quantities of melittin can lead to organ failure anddeath.

They injected one group of mice with a lethal dose ofmelittin, and then injected them with the plasticantibodies.

The nanoparticles succeeded in “capturing” the antigensbefore they could disperse, thus reducing deaths amongthe mice, which also fared well in the weeks following thejab, according to UCI professor Kenneth Shea. Mice in acontrol group injected with the toxin but not the antibodiesdid not survive. “Never before have synthetic antibodiesbeen shown to effectively function in the bloodstream ofliving animals,” Shea said. “This technique could be utilizedto make plastic nanoparticles designed to fight more lethal

272727

toxins and pathogens.”

Antibodies are the proteins produced by the immune systemto neutralize foreign threats like infections, allergens,viruses and bacteria. In the case of allergies our immunesystems can be unequipped to deal with certain antigens.

To counter these shortcomings, the experts took plasticnanoparticles that had shown the ability to mimicantibodies. They used molecular imprinting to stamp theshape of the antigen melittin, the primary toxin in beevenom, onto the antibody. By imprinting tiny antigen-shaped craters into the individual particles, the plasticantibodies were then finely tuned to attach themselves tothose antigens in the blood.

A Lucrative Clean-Up Act!Priyanka Bhardwaj

No Indian is unaware of the displeasing sight and smells ofplastic, polythene bags, paper, tetrapack and other wastestuff strewn all over. Such visuals are etched so firmly in our psyche that weassociate any picture or image depicting a clean andhygienic landscape with a “foreign” country. As our population multiplies and India trapezes up the graphof consumption and urbanization increasing heaps of wastelie littered along. About 142,000 tons/day of municipal solid waste areproduced by the country and this is expected to grow by a5 % every year. Not too long ago radioactive Cobalt 60,detected in the metal scarp yards of the capital, resultedin loss of lives. The gravity of the situation leaves scope for no more delays. Questions of how we handle our trash assume importancegiven the unhygienic, toxic and non-aesthete impact onhealth, environment and senses. Apart from a massawareness at individual levels there is critical need forholistic policy making at the top end. The plus side of waste management is that the sector holdstremendous potential for wealth generation besidesemployment opportunities for the urban poor. This will therefore require government encouragement andsupport of various ministries via regulations and subsidiesto rope in private entities in the clean up act. The criticalityof the issue calls for immediate action and a holistic policyas only government foresight will only help in tackling theproblem. The political will for proper coordinatedimplementation will be a key ingredient.

An environment friendly regime will enable full explorationfor benefit of public and environmental health. Till dateIndia has a track record of only knee jerk actions. Political instability in Uttar Pradesh has stalled the WorldBank sponsored de-pollution drive of the River Ganga.Dumping of solid and plastic waste in rivers remainsunchecked. With massive migrations, urbanization and rise in per capitaincome new consumption patters and social linkages arebound to emerge. The process has to start by viewing wasteas a cycle of production-consumption-recovery. Variedresponses and sustainable systems have to be built uponexisting ones that will remain clued to local dynamics.Herecomposting and recycling plants could help conserve andre-fertilize the soil rather letting waste matter to pollute. The role and responsibility of various groups of urbanplanners, municipal agencies, environmental regulators,labor groups, citizens’ groups and non-governmentalorganizations will need to be incorporated by the sectorand the government could play the role of an efficientregulator. The idea is to exercise caution while pushing new, expensiveand imported technologies as social and environmental riskscould be too deep. While working towards coordinated responses the informalsector that is involved in works like waste picking, sorting,recycling and at the organized level, door-to-doorcollection, composting and recycling recovery will have tobe studied and not done away with. Then there are issues of low-end technology being employedfor recycling, poor occupational safety provisions and wastedisposal being carried out in poorer neighborhoods, leadingto groundwater and other types of contamination. There has been positive news of late. The MCD has figured up as the world’s first civic agency tohave gained Certified Emission Reduction credits. Kanpuris being touted as the first city in India to be on the way ofdeveloping Asia’s largest integrated waste management andpower generation plant. Yet such “fell good” and fragmentary work is just notenough. A whole lot of work needs to be done for the sake of clean,healthy and beautiful India, one that will translate intohuge national savings, employment to our urban poor andnurturing of a lucrative waste management sector.

282828

Bolder, cooler, inspired by historyIndia’s New, Technologically Superior

Kit Made Of Plastic BottlesWhen Team India take to the field in the upcoming ODIseries against the visiting Australians next month, they willwear their hearts on sleeves made of space-age technology,as the official apparel sponsors of the Board of Control forCricket in India on Wednesday unveiled the new team kit.

Brighter and bolder, the ecofriendly, performanceenhancing technological marvel will be in use for the nexttwo to three seasons. Chandigarh witnessed a grand officiallaunch at the Parade Grounds on Wednesday when TeamIndia stars Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Zaheer Khan,Harbhajan Singh, Pragyan Ojha and Gautam Gambhir walkedthe ramp to showcase the team’s new jersey.

The colour — a vibrant blue with a hint of the national flagrunning along the side-chest — was certainly a shade betterthan the existing one and even the players sporting it lookedconvinced. “Wearing it feels very good but I’ll be able toknow how effective it is only when I’m out on the field,’’bowler Zaheer Khan said.

Tendulkar and Harbhajan too were convinced and said theywere comfortable with what has been dished out. However,the best reaction came from the fashion-consciousChandigarh crowd which was convinced that the newcolours were better than what was being used.

Fionna Taylor, the designer of this new outfit, worked onthe latest Indian team product for close to 18 months.An improvement from the team’s kit since the past twoyears, the design of the new Nike uniform draws inspirationfrom its predecessor, but is a shade brighter. History toomakes a mark, as the new kit sports two gold stars on theleft shoulder, signifying the two World Cups (including theT20 WC victory in 2007) that the team has won. The kit ismade entirely from recycled polyester, each one producedfrom up to eight recycled plastic bottles and follows in thecompany’s efforts to make sporting kits more and moreenvironmentally friendly, an effort they pioneered duringthe FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

Ten of the world’s top footballing nations, including thelikes of Brazil, Portugal and the Netherlands, had advertisedthe kits then, the replicas of which became a collector’sitem for several reasons. Team India will sport the newlylaunched Cricket Team Kit for both the ODI and T20 formatsof the game from the forthcoming India Australia seriesbeginning on October 17, 2010.

KIT INNOVATIONS NEW MATERIAL Team India’s new ODI kit is made with a special materialfor superior moisture management.

ENHANCED COOLING Aerographic prints on the back panel along high sweat zonesenhances cooling while increasing aesthetics.

LIGHT AS A FEATHER The fabric is also 13% lighter than its predecessor and helpskeep players dry by drawing sweat to the outside of thegarment where it can easily evaporate. Ventilation zoneshave been placed on each side of the jersey to enhancebreathability. TNN

IOC bets big on petrochem business15-million tonnes Paradip facility to go on stream next fiscalIndian Oil Corporation (IOC) on Wednesday announced thatits turnover from the petrochemical business was expectedto more than double to Rs.15,000 crore next fiscal.

Addressing a press conference here to announce the launchof the ‘Propel’’ brand of petrochemical products here, IOCChairman B. M. Bansal said the company clocked a turnoverof Rs.3,000 crore from the petrochemical business in 2009-10 and this year it was expected to rise to Rs.6,000 crore.

“Next fiscal, we hope to run our naphtha cracker plant atPanipat full stream that will see our turnover rising toRs.15,000 crore,’’ he remarked.

Mr. Bansal said IOC was hoping to capture 20 per centmarket share of the petrochemical business in India fromthe current 5 per cent. “Every segment that we operatein, whether it is lubricants, automotive fuels, LPG oraviation we have established ourselves as leaders. ‘Propel’will be the latest in the bouquet of our brand offerings andis backed by the same intensity of passion that helped uscapture the hearts and minds of our customers,’’ he said.

Further, he said IOC had earmarked Rs.30,000-croreinvestments during 2007-12 for setting up world-class plantsand nationwide marketing infrastructure.

“These plants have been designed to use product streamsfrom IOC’s own refineries, to produce a wide range of value-added petrochemical products and intermediates forsegments as diverse as detergents, polyesters andpolymers/plastic,’’ he added.

He said IOC had also laid out a web-based marketingstrategy, showcasing its capability to manufacture andmarket the full range of petrochemicals.

292929

IOC is setting up a petrochemicals complex at its upcominggrassroots refinery at Paradip in Orissa.

To be commissioned by 2011-12, the 15-million tonnes perannum refinery will have facilities for production of front-end petrochemicals, including paraxylene, polypropyleneand styrene.

A state-of-the-art 1.20 lakh tonnes per annum styrenebutadiene rubber (SBR) unit, the first in India, is underway at Panipat as a joint venture with TSRC Corporation ofTaiwan and Marubeni Corporation of Japan to furtherstrengthen IOC’s presence in specialty petrochemicals.

Mulching – Israel’s cropping art a bighit in India

Michael GonsalvesMulching, an agricultural cropping technique from Israelinvolving placing organic or synthetic materials on the soilaround plants, is yielding high growth in India. Agriplast, apioneer in plastics in agriculture in India, has beenpopularising this technique with the Indian farmers.

“Mulching is a proven agricultural cropping technique thatinvolves placing organic or synthetic materials on the soilaround plants, which has provided high yield for thefarmers,” Rajeeb Kumar Roy, director of Bangalore-basedAgr iplast, said.

“It is a tool for the second green revolution in India,” headded. The firm imports mulching cover ma terials fromGinegar Pl astic Products, an Israel sto ck exchange listedcompany.

“I used mulching cover to grow brinjal crop on one acre ofland and I was thrilled to harvest a whopping 110 tonnes ofbrinjals and I earned Rs 9.90 lakh,” Kiran Pingley, a farmerfrom Nashik district in Maharashtra, told FinancialChronicle.

He said because of the use of mulch cover, there was a 30-40 per cent more crop yield. He said he spent about a totalof Rs 2.25 lakh on drip irrigation system, soil treatmentand manure and pest control.

“Mulch cover sign ificantly prevented water eva porationfrom the ground, growth of weeds and helped maintainsoil temperature and insect attacks,” Pingley said.

Another enterprising farmer in Sangli district in southMaharashtra has also earned good income due to the useof mulch technique. “On an experimental basis I coveredmy one acre of land with mulch cover and grew ridge gourdswith an investment of Rs 13,000,” PR Patil said. “In the

last 24 days, the farm has yielded 12 tonnes of ridge gourds,fetching me an income of Rs 1.08 lakh,” he said. The outputhad jumped more than 50 per cent, he added. Patil isexpecting to harvest about 40 tonnes of ridge gourds whichwould earn him about Rs 3.06 lakh.

He said his neighbouring farmers, who had not used mulchcover were shocked at the yield and had now decided touse the technique. After ridge gourd crop, which will lastfor the next four to five months, he said he would growtomatoes and expects to harvest a bumper crop of tomatoestoo.

Roy said the price of a range of mulch cover from blackand white embossed mulch to silver and yellow brown SLTto photo-selective mulch ranged from Rs 5 to Rs 22 per sqmetre depending on the crop being produced on the farm.He said about 2,000 to 3,000 metres of mulch cover wasneeded to cover one acre of land depending on the type ofcrops cultivated.

Roy said mulching could be used in growing vegetables likechillies, egg plant, bell pepper and also fruits likestrawberries, papaya, pomegranate, sweet lime, orange,guava and grapes, among other things.

He said his firm with its network of 50 distributors andfield workers has also introduced imported shade nets andhigh quality insect nets of different types for a variety ofcrops with a price range of Rs 18 to Rs 68 a sq meter witha five-year guarantee.

Plastic Surgery in Ancient IndiaOur Scientific Heritage

Gunakar MuleyFrom 1769 AD to 1799 AD, in a period of thirty years, fourMysore Wars were fought between Hyder Ali and his sonTipu Sultan and the British. As a result of these wars theBritish learnt two very important Indian techniques —rocketry and plastic surgery. Both these Indian techniqueswere further improved first in England and then in otherEuropean countries (see ‘Story of Indian Rockets’, DREAM,October 1999). How the British learnt the art of Indianplastic surgery is a fascinating story.

A Maratha cart-driver, Kawasajee, who had served theBritish, and four tilanges (Indian soldiers of British army)had fallen into the hands of the Sultan of Srirangapattam.Their noses and right arms were cut off as a punishmentfor serving the enemy. Then they were sent back to theEnglish command.

After some days, when dealing with an Indian merchant,the English commanding officer noticed that he had a

303030

peculiar nose and scar on his forehead. On inquiry, he learntthat the merchant’s nose had been cut off as a punishmentfor adultery and that he had a substitute nose made by aMaratha Vaidya of the kumhar (potter) caste. Thecommanding officer sent for the Vaidya and asked him toreconstruct the nose of Kawasajee and others.

The operation was performed near Pune in the presenceof two English doctors, Thomas Cruso and James Findlay.An illustrated account of this operation, carried out by anunnamed Vaidya, appeared in the Madras Gazette.Subsequently, the article was reproduced in theGentleman’s Magazine of London in October 1794. Theoperation is described as follows :

“A thin plate of wax is fitted to the stump of the nose so asto make a nose of good appearance; it is then flattenedand laid on the forehead. A line is drawn around the wax,which is then of no further use, and the operator thendissects off as much skin as it had covered, living undivideda small slip between the eyes. This slip preserves the bloodcirculation till a union has taken place between the newand the old parts.

“The cicatrix of the stump of the nose is next paired off,and immediately behind the new part, an incision is madethrough the skin which passes around both alae, and goesalong the upper lip. The skin, now brought down from theforehead and being twisted half around, is inserted intothis incision, so that a nose is formed with a double holdabove and with its alae and septum below fixed in theincision. A little Terra Japonica (pale-catechu) is softenedwith water and being spread on slips of cloth, five or six ofthese are placed over each other to secure the joining. Noother dressing but this cement is used for four days. It isthen removed, and cloths dipped in ghee are applied. Theconnecting slip of skin is divided about the twentieth day,when a little more dissection is necessary to improve theappearance of the new nose. For five or six days after theoperation, the patient is made to lie on his back, and onthe tenth day, bits of soft cloth are put into the nostrils tokeep them sufficiently open. This operation is alwayssuccessful. The artificial nose is secured and looks nearlyas well as the natural nose, nor is the scar on the foreheadvery observable after a length of time.”

This description fired the imagination of the young Englishsurgeon J.C. Carpue, who after gathering more informationon the “Indian nose” performed two similar operations in1814 with successful results. After Carpue published hisaccount, Graefe, a German surgeon, performed similarplastic operations of the nose using skin from the arm.After this plastic surgery became popular throughoutEurope. All replacement operations which use a flap ofskin in the immediate vicinity of the loss are known as

Indian plastic surgery.

Plastic surgery has little to do with plastics, the syntheticsubstances so common today. The term ‘plastic’, derivedfrom the Greek plastikos, means to mould or shape. Thetask of plastic surgery is to restore the appearance andfunction of parts of the body destroyed or damaged bydisease or injury. Contrary to popular belief, plastic orreconstructive surgery is not merely cosmetic surgery butan important discipline that aims at correcting all sorts ofphysical deformities. Though a very old technique, plasticsurgery has made great strides only after the First WorldWar.

The Bible contains no reference of plastic operations. Thereis no mention of plastic surgery in the ancient Greekliterature. Homer (9th century BC) has described varioustypes of wounds and their treatments but did not mentionthe possibility of replacing parts of the nose or otherfeatures. Roman legends vaguely mention plastic surgery.Genuine records of plastic operations are not found inEurope until the middle of the fifteenth century. Thesecome from Italy. Many European scholars are of the opinionthat reports of Indian plastic operations reached Italy byway of seamen and merchants, who used to undertake longjourneys to the Far East at the beginning of the MiddleAges. Like other methods Indian mathematics and medicine,the Italians might have learnt the techniques of Indianplastic surgery from the Arab Moors.

From Italy we have the record that in 1442, Branca, asurgeon of Catania in Sicily, carried out plastic operationsof the nose, using flap from the face. His son Antoniocontinued his work and was the first to use a flap from thearm for reconstructing the nose. The work was carried onby the Boinias, another Italian family. The plastic operationscarried out by the Boinia brothers are described in a bookpublished in 1568 by Fioravanti, a doctor of Bologna.

However, it was in the hands of Gasparo Tagliacozzi (1546-99), a professor of surgery and of anatomy at the BolognaUniversity, that plastic surgery attained wide fame inEurope. His book De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem (Thesurgery of defects by implantation), printed in 1597, wasthe first scientific treatise on plastic surgery. Tagliacozzihas described a method of plastic substitution of the noseby skin from the arm and of replacement of the ears andlips, demonstrating his work by a large number ofillustrations.

The Church dignitaries regarded plastic surgery as aninterference in the affairs of the Almighty. They not onlyexcommunicated Tagliacozzi but later got his corpseexhumed from its church grave and placed in anunconsecrated ground !

313131

In the 17th and 18th century not much importance wasattached to plastic surgery in Europe. The great Voltaire(1694-1778) wrote a satirical poem on Tagliacozzi and hisoperation on the nose, using flap from the buttocks. Manygentlemen who lost their nose in duel or through othermisfortunes had substitutes made of gold, silver or ivory.The Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) oncebecame involved in a dispute with another young Danishnobleman over who was the better mathematician. Thedispute led to a duel in which Tycho lost part of his nose.This he replaced with a mixture of gold, silver, and wax, ofwhich he was very proud.

In ancient Europe, as we have seen, there was no traditionof plastic operations.

The plastic operation on nose done by Branca in 1442 wasvery similar to the one described in the Sushruta-Sanhita,an Ayurvedic compendium composed in the early centuriesof the Christian era. In India, from ancient times to theearly nineteenth century, we find a living tradition of plasticoperations of the nose, ear and lip. The Kangra (correctlypronounced as ‘Kangada’) district in Himachal Pradesh wasfamous for its plastic surgeons. Some scholars are of theopinion that the word ‘Kangada’ is made from ‘Kana +gadha’ (ear repair). The British archaeologist Sir AlexanderCunningham (1814-93) has written about the tradition ofKangra plastic operations. We have information that in thereign of Akber a Vaidya named Bidha used to do plasticoperations in Kangra.

The Charaka-Sanhita and the Sushruta-Sanhita are amongthe oldest known treatise on Ayurveda (the Indian scienceof medicine). Chronologically, Charaka-Sanhita is believedto be an earlier work, and deals with medicine propercontaining a few passages on surgery. The Sushruta-Sanhita,a work of the early centuries of the Christian era, mainlydeals with surgical knowledge. The extant Sushruta-Sanhitais, according to its commentator Dalhanacharya (twelthcentury AD), a recension by Nagarjuna. The originalSushruta-Sanhita was based on a series of discourses ofKashiraj Divodas (or Dhanvantari) to his disciples, Sushrutaand others.

There has been a tradition to divide the Ayurveda worksinto 120 chapters. The Susruta Sanhita also contains 120chapters, grouped into five sthanas (books): Sutrasthana,Nidanasthana, Sharirasthana, Chikitsashana andKalpasthana. Besides, the compendium contains anappendix, called Uttaratantra, consisting of 66 chapters.

The plastic operations of otoplasty (plastic surgery of theear) and rhinoplasty (plastic surgery of the nose) aredescribed in the 16th chapter of the first book(Sutrasthanam) of the compendium. First, methods are

described for piercing the ear-lobes of an infant which stillis a widespread practice in India. Often these ear-lobes,due to the use of heavy ornaments, get considerablyexpanded and ultimately sunder. Sushruta has described15 methods of joining these cut-up ear-lobes. For theseplastic operations, called Karnabandha, a piece of skin wastaken from the cheek, turned back, and suitably stitchedon the lobules. Further treatment of the operation, periodicdressing of the wound and the use of various ointments iselaborately described.

In describing the method of rhinoplasty (Karnabandha),Sushruta says that the portion of the nose to be coveredshould be first measured with a leaf . Then a piece of skinof the required size should be dissected from the livingskin of the cheek, and turned back to cover the nose,keeping a small pedicle attached to the cheek. The part ofthe nose to which the skin is to be attached should bemade raw by cutting of the nasal stump with a knife. Thephysician then should place the skin on the nose and stitchthe two parts swiftly, keeping the skin properly elevatedby inserting two tubes of eranda (the castor-oil plant) inthe position of the nostrils, so that the new nose gets propershape. The skin thus properly adjusted, it should then besprinkled with a powder composed of liquorice, red sandal-wood and barberry plant. Finally, it should be covered withcotton, and clean sesame oil should be constantly appliedto it. After some days the wound heals up and the graftingis successful. Sushruta also mentions the reconstruction ofthe broken lip and hare-lip (Oshtha-sandhana).

Thus, plastic surgery is a very old science. It is, however,difficult to say when the first plastic operations on manwere performed. Primitive man knew how to do grafting inplants. This might have given him the idea of transferringtissues in man and animals. The necessity arose when helost such parts of his body as the nose, which has been acommon form of injury in all periods of history. In oldendays, removal of the nose was also one of the most commonform of punishment. Manu, the famous lawgiver, mentionsthe ears and the nose among the ten parts of the body onwhich punishments are to be executed (Manusmruti :8.125), Thus it became a social necessity to find a substitutefor the lost nose. The development of plastic surgery isclosely connected with the operative techniques used inthe field known as rhinoplasty.

After getting fresh impetus from India, plastic surgery hasmade great progress in the past two hundred years. In 1933the first international congress of plastic surgery was heldin Paris. Basically, the task of plastic surgery is to restorethe parts of the body destroyed or damaged by disease orinjury. But in recent years “cosmetic surgery” as beautytreatment has become very fashionable. Anyway, we shouldalways remember that the sources of modern plastic surgery

323232

are the Sushruta-Sanhita and it was from India theEuropeans learnt the technique of rhinoplasty.

Illustrations :1. In 1793, a Maratha Vaidya reconstructed the nose of

a cart-driver. Illustration from “Gentleman’sMagazine” (London), Oct.1794.

2. Italian method of plastic surgery of the nose takingflap from the arm (two illustrations from Tagliacozzi’swork).

3. Present type of Indian flap from forehead used fornasal plastic surgery.

4. Sushruta doing plastic surgery of the ear.5. Some surgical instruments (Yantra and Shastra) as

described in the Sushruta-Sanhita.

Toyota to use sugar cane-based PET incar interiors

Rhoda MielToyota Motor Corp. will use a sugar cane-based PET invehicle liners and other interior surfaces in what it callsthe world’s first use of the material.

Toyota Tsusho Corp., founded by the carmaker in the 1930s,developed the material with Toyota City-based Toyota. Thebio-PET, called Ecological Plastic, offers improvedperformance in heat resistance and durability comparedto other bio-based resins and can compete with standardPET, the company said in an Oct. 13 news release.

Toyota’s plans to use the PET extensively provides thevolume production levels needed to improve the cost perpart, while the material also can be used in both seats andcarpeting in addition to standard plastic parts.

Toyota Tsusho replaces standard monoethylene glycol inPET with a raw material made from sugar cane.

Its first use will be in the 2011 Lexus CT200h compacthybrid, as the luggage compartment liner. The car will goon sale in early 2011. From there, the company said it willexpand both the number of vehicles using Ecological Plasticas well as the extent of vehicle interior parts using it.

It will also introduce a vehicle in 2011 using the plastic in80 percent of the interior.

Toyota has used environmentally friendly plastics, with bothbio-based resins and plastics with recycled content, since2000. Its Japan-only Sai hybrid debuted in 2009 with 60percent of its exposed interior surfaces made from bio-plastics.

Additives for Transparent PlasticPackaging

Jennifer MarkarianTransparent plastics are certainly not new to packagingapplications, and their use has continued to grow, asdesigners take advantage of clarity as yet another tool todifferentiate their packaged goods. At the same time, useof clarified polypropylene (PP) in packaging is growing,driven by its reduced environmental footprint, cost, andfunctionality relative to many other transparent materials.Additives play the key role in enhancing clarity andprotecting the contents of transparent packaging.

Clarifiers and nucleating agentsClarifying or nucleating agents can now improve the clarityof polypropylene (PP) to a point where PP can competewith glass and with inherently clear polymers likepolystyrene (PS), polycarbonate (PC) and poly(ethyleneterephthalate) (PET). Designers can then take advantageof PP’s reduced environmental footprint. “Polypropylenescores well on environmental scorecards. PP is recyclable,and PP manufacturing is less energy-intensive and produceslower greenhouse gas emissions than some other polymers.PP has a lower density and corresponding lighter weight,so that even if you need a thicker wall the overall partweight can be less. This also means lower transportationand raw material costs (per part),” says Brian Burkhart,global marketing manager at Milliken Chemical. Removingthe clarity barrier for PP opens up new design possibilities.

According to a SpecialChem online poll in September 2008,41% of respondents said their biggest challenge with PPclarifiers was getting the desired clarity. Twenty percentranked dispersion as the top concern and 15% choseorganoleptics (taste and odor). Clarifiers introduced in thelast few years claim to meet these challenges, offeringbetter performance in PP than traditional sorbitol-basedclarifiers (like DMDBS).

One of these is Irgaclear® XT 386 from Ciba, now part ofBASF, which improves optical properties of PP using muchlower additive levels than conventional clarifiers. Thechemistry of the next-generation additive features highthermal and chemical stability, providing improvedorganoleptics and less plate-out during processing. The highstability of the clarifier allows it to be used as recyclate orregrind without impacting the final haze and clarityproperties, says the company.

RiKA International’s RiKACLEAR PC1 is a non-sorbitolclarifier that provides low haze with robust thermal stabilityand a wide processing window, says the company.

Milliken launched Millad® NX8000 at K2007 as a

333333

“breakthrough in clarifier technology” that typicallyenables up to a 50 percent haze reduction compared tothe current industry standard, reports the company. Thenew technology has food-contact regulatory approval andgood organoleptics, allowing its use in food and beveragepackaging. Millad NX8000 hassubstantially better dispersioncharacteristics than competitive clarifiers, says Mr.Burkhart, who comments, “Millad NX8000’s good dispersionallows reduced processing temperatures and maybe evenreduced cycle times, which can lower energy costs. MilladNX8000 also shows good processing stability.”

Milliken also introduced Hyperform HPN-20E, abreakthrough nucleating agent for polyethylene (PE) thatreduces haze and improves barrier of LLDPE and HDPE filmswithout the addition of LDPE, and HPN-600ei, a nucleatingagent for PP thermoforming applications that givesexcellent clarity, mechanical properties, and productivitybenefits.

SABIC to Expand SpecialtyPolypropylene Compounding at Bay

St. Louis, Miss. By 2011MICHIGAN, USA — SABIC Innovative Plastics announced thatit is adding specialty polypropylene (PP) compounding toits Bay St. Louis, Miss. site in the first quarter of 2011. Thesite will use its existing infrastructure and adopt newprocesses to produce SABIC® PP compounds and SABICSTAMAX® long glass fiber-reinforced PP composites.

Adding specialty PP to the site’s compounding capabilitiesenables the company to provide a broader range of high-performance materials to its customers in North Americaand to help satisfy demand for specialty compounds.Investment in this highly automated and technologicallysophisticated process supports SABIC Innovative Plastics’commitment to meeting both automotive OEM needs forlightweight, high-performance materials that cansignificantly reduce fuel consumption and emissions vs.competitive products, and non-automotive needs in keysegments such as fluid handling and appliance.

“Plastics are becoming more familiar to automotivedesigners and the percentage of PP compounds used intoday’s cars is increasing,” said Gregory A. Adams, VP -Automotive, SABIC Innovative Plastics. “The Bay St. Louisfacility is ideally located to quickly supply our customersin the NAFTA countries. Our expanded compoundingcapabilities will strengthen our ability to deliver some ofthe most comprehensive and innovative material solutionsto address the changing needs of today’s car designers.”“Our customers’ success is the linchpin of our success,”said Leon Jacobs, Global Business Director - PP, SABICInnovative Plastics. “We have very strong relationships with

automotive OEMs and tier-1 suppliers that are founded ontrust, teamwork and co-development expertise. Animportant component of these relationships is our ability,as a leading global player, to ensure flexible and reliablesupply and the capacity expansion of our key automotivematerials in Bay St. Louis will help us respond quickly tothe dynamic and changing needs of the industry.”

High-performance products for diverse automotiveapplicationsSABIC PP compounds are the materials of choice for agrowing number of global OEMs and tiers for producingbumper fascias, instrument panels (IPs), door panels,interior trims and other important automotive applications.The market demand for SABIC STAMAX composites is growingdue to their outstanding combination of excellent strength,dimensional stability and high flow for thin-wall structuralparts. SABIC STAMAX materials support the design ofapplications that combine lightweight with functionalintegration for such components as front-end modules, IPcarriers, door modules, tailgates and seating systems.

SABIC is Exhibiting at K 2010 in Düsseldorf, Germany inHall 6, Stand D42.

About SABIC Innovative PlasticsSABIC Innovative Plastics is a global supplier of engineeringthermoplastics with a 75-year history of breakthroughsolutions. Today, SABIC Innovative Plastics is a multi-billion-dollar company with operations in more than 35 countriesand approximately 9,000 employees worldwide. Thecompany serve diverse markets such as automotive,electronics, building & construction, transportation, andhealthcare. The company’s extensive product portfolioincludes thermoplastic resins, coatings, specialtycompounds, film, and sheet. SABIC Innovative Plastics is awholly owned subsidiary of Saudi Basic IndustriesCorporation (SABIC), one of the world’s top sixpetrochemicals manufacturers.

Source: SABIC Innovative Plastics

GAIL Inks Pact with BCPL forMarketing Polymer Products

NEW DELHI, India — GAIL (India) Limited and BrahmaputraCracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL) have initiated anagreement for marketing all the petrochemical productsproduced from BCPL at Lepetkata, Assam. The agreementwas signed in presence of senior officials of both theorganizations.

According to the agreement, GAIL will market 220,000tonnes of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) along with 60,000 tonnes of

343434

polypropylene produced annually from the at BCPL plantat Assam. With this development, GAIL will be marketing780,000MT of polymers per annum by FY 2012-2013.

Speaking on the occasion, Prabhat Singh, Director -Marketing, GAIL said, “With marketing of BCPL products,GAIL would be adding more than 50 percent of the currentvolume and increase its spectrum of product offerings tocustomers by addition of polypropylene in its productportfolio.” Adding further on the aspect of licensor’stechnology, Singh said that the manufacturing process ofBCPL products will add gas-based process in polymerproduction, wherein GAIL Petrochemicals already use theslurry and the solution processes.

Shri JK Singh Teotia, MD, BPCL said that the plant will becommissioned in year 2012 and soon the products will caterto the North Eastern market, creating opportunities indownstream sector and will positively contribute in thesocio economic development of the region. He said thatGAIL’s petrochemical marketing network will definitelystrengthen the market acceptability of BCPL products.

BCPL will produce various ranges of polymers for differentapplications in sectors such as packaging film, roto-,injection-, raffia-, and blow-molding. This will boost thesupply of different end use products like water storagetanks, household items, house-wares, crates, buckets and

packaging materials, woven sacks for packaging offertilizers and cement, containers for edible oil andchemicals in the North Eastern States. GAIL has a widemarketing network in the country today and holdsapproximately 21 percent share in polyethylene market.

BCPL has already placed purchase orders and the contractsof value over Rs 3,540 crore and the placement of remainingorders and contracts are being expedited. Civil andstructural works for the main process units namely Ethylenecracker unit, Polyethylene unit (HDPE/LLDPE),Polypropylene unit, C2+ extraction unit, Gas processingunit, Gas de-hydration unit and Gas sweetening unit havecommenced. The total Capex incurred till the middle ofJuly 2010 was about Rs 4,343 crore and total expenditureplanned for FY 2010-11 is Rs 2,272.32 crore.

BCPL is a joint venture company (JVC) with GAIL as thelead promoter with 70% equity. The other joint venturepartners are Oil India Limited (OIL), Numaligarh RefineriesLimited (NRL) and Assam Government, each having 10%equity. The scope of business of the JVC includes investing,setting up and operation and maintenance of the facilitiesfor integrated Petrochemical Complex at Lepetkata, DistrictDibrugarh, Assam, comprising of a cracker unit, downstreampolymer and integrated off-site/utilities plants, facilitiesfor Gas Sweetening and Ethane and Heavier HydrocarbonRecovery Unit at Lakwa.

CHAMBER OF SMALL INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONSTSSIA House, Plot P-26, Road No. 16-T, Wagle Estate, Thane -4

Phone – 25803536 / 25820429 Fax - 25823303

From the Desk of Secretary GeneralDear Sir/ Madam, 13th September 2010

Subject : Direct Taxes Code Bill, 2010I am pleased to inform you that persistent efforts of COSIA has brought desire results as far as inclusion of disallowanceof interest referred to in section 23 of MSMED Act, 2006 in DTC Bill, 2010.

There was a clear omission of this inclusion in the primary DTC Bill and subsequent second discussion paper also. COSIArepeatedly followed this issue with the Union Ministry of Finance, CBDT, Union Ministry of MSME and other concernedSecretaries. Now the DTC Bill which is presented in LokSabha and has been referred to the Standing Committee ofParliament includes a clear provision that any amount of interest referred to in section 23 of MSMED Act, 2006 shall notbe included in the Finance Charges.

For details you may please referred to section 32 [3], 34 and 36 of the said bill.

I would also like to draw your attention to the chapter IV pertaining to the computation of total income of non-profitorganizations. Please go through section 90 to 103 of the said bill and let us have your suggestions if any oncosia.cosia@gmail.com at the earliest.

Dilip Salvekar

353535

Incentives for setting up of New Industrial Enterprisesin Andhra Pradesh- Industrial Investment Promotion Policy (IIPP) 2010-2015

GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESHINDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE (IP) DEPARTMENT

G.O.Ms.No. 61 Dated: 29-06-2010Read the following:-1. G.O.Ms.No.108, Industries & Commerce (IP)

Department, Dated 20-05-96.2. G.O.Ms.No.241, Industries & Commerce (IP)

Department, Dated:15.07.983. G.O.Ms.No.9, Industries & Commerce (IP)

Department, Dated:05-01-20014. G.O.Ms.No.141, Industries & Commerce(IP)

Department, Dated:03-07-20045. G.O.Ms.No.178, Industries & Commerce(IP)

Department, Dated:21-06-20056. G.O.Ms.No.161, Industries & Commerce(IP)

Department, Dated:22-06-20077. G.O.Ms.No.300 Industries & Commerce (Tex)

Department, Dated:08-11-20058. G.O.Ms.No.267, Industries & Commerce(IP)

Department, Dated:06-10-20079. G.O.Ms.No.149, Industries & Commerce(IP)

Department, Dated:20-06-200810. G.O.Ms.No.105, Industries & Commerce(IP)

Department, Dated:23-04-200811. G.O.Ms.No.274, Industries & Commerce(IP)

Department, Dated:16-10-200812. G.O.Ms.No.333, Industries & Commerce

(IP)Department, Dated:20-12-200813. G.O.Ms.No.50, Industries & Commerce(IP)

Department, Dated:11-02-200914. G.O.Ms.No.32, Industries & Commerce(IP)

Department, Dated:13-04-201015. From the Commissioner of Industries Single

File.No.30/1/2010/0959, dated.23.06.2010.O R D E R:1. Government is extending various Incentives for

encouraging establishment of new industrialEnterprises in the State since 1961. In the reference5th read above, Government have issued certainincentives to Tiny, SSI, Medium, Large & Megaindustries under Industrial Investment PromotionPolicy 2005- 2010, which was concluded by31.03.2010. In respect of Mega projects which areunder pipeline status, the date of commencementof commercial production was extended upto 31-03-2012 vide Government Order 13th read above. Inthe Government Order 14th read above, Governmenthave accorded extension of the Industrial InvestmentPromotion Policy 2005-10 including policy for

promotion of Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribeentrepreneurs, Service Sector for Scheduled Caste /Scheduled Tribe entrepreneurs and PavalavaddiScheme etc., for a further period of three monthsi.e., upto 30.06.2010 or till new Industrial Policy2010-2015 comes into force whichever is earlier.

2. In order to bring out an attractive industrial policyby the Government for the next five years period,official teams from Industries Department weredeputed to industrially developed States like Gujarat,Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra to study the policiesand to identify the best practices. Extensiveconsultations were also held with IndustrialAssociations i.e., CII, FICCI, FAPSIA, FAPCCI, ALEAP,COWE, AP Spinning Mills Association, ASSOCHAM, etcto elicit their views in formulation of the NewIndustrial Policy.

3. Series of meeting were conducted with number ofindustrial associations, line departments, Head ofDepartments concerned and finalised the draftIndustrial Investment Promotion Policy 2010-15. Adetailed study was made on the Draft IndustrialInvestment Promotion Policy 2010-15, covering theincentives being offered under the existing policy incomparison with industrial policies of otherindustrially developed states like Gujarat,Maharashtra, Tamilnadu etc. and the incentivesproposed to be included in the new industrial policy.After careful examination, the Government approvedthe New Industrial Policy “Industrial InvestmentPromotion Policy (IIPP) 2010-2015” giving majoremphasis for Creation of Quality Infrastructure,promotion of Manufacturing Investment Zones andIndustrial Corridors, special focus on MSMEs, growthenabling incentives to create a level playing field,to tap the potential of ever expanding service sectorrelated to industrial activity, fostering industrialclusters, promotion of anchor industries for creationof ancillary base, Capacity building and skillupgradation, inclusive development to buildcompetency in Women and Scheduled Caste &Scheduled Tribe Entrepreneurs, QualityCompetitiveness, Export Promotion, promotion ofcleaner technology, leveraging existing strengths forvalue addition, special focus on thrust sectors,revitalization of MSMEs. The detailed policy

363636

document is appended at Annexure-I.

4. Under the new “Industrial Investment PromotionPolicy (IIPP) 2010-2015”, the Government approvedthe following fiscal benefits covering the categoriesof (a) Micro/Small Enterprises (b) Medium Enterprises& Large Industries (c) Scheduled Caste & ScheduledTribe Entrepreneurs (d) Women Entrepreneurs and(e) Mega Projects.

4.1.0 Micro and Small Enterprises (MSE’s)Small Enterprise means a Unit having the investmenton plant and machinery up to limit as defined by theGovernment of India from time to time.

Micro Enterprise means a Unit in which Investmenton plant and machinery up to limit as defined by theGovernment of India from time to time.

4.1.1 100% reimbursement of Stamp duty and transfer dutypaid by the industry on purchase of land meant forindustrial use.

4.1.2 100% reimbursement of Stamp duty for Lease ofLand/Shed/ Buildings and also mortgages andhypothecations.

4.1.3 25% rebate in land cost limited to Rs.10.00 Lakhs inIndustrial Estates/Industrial Parks.

4.1.4 25% Land conversion charges for industrial use limitedto Rs.10.0 lakhs.

4.1.5 Fixed power cost reimbursement @ Rs.0.75 per unit(upper ceiling) on the proposed revised rates (2010-11) for 5 years from the date of commencement ofcommercial production. In case, decrease in PowerTariff, the reimbursement will be reducedproportionately.

4.1.6 15% investment subsidy on fixed capital investmentsubject to a maximum of Rs.20.00 lakhs.

4.1.7 Reimbursement of 100% VAT/CST or State Goods andServices Tax (SGST) for a period of 5 years from thedate of commencement of commercial productionto Micro Enterprises.

4.1.8 Reimbursement of 50% VAT/CST or State Goods andServices Tax (SGST) for a period of 5 years from thedate of commencement of commercial productionto Small Enterprises.

4.1.9 Interest subsidy under Pavala Vaddi Scheme on theterm loan taken on the fixed capital investment byNew Micro and Small Enterprises in excess of

3% per annum subject to a maximum reimbursement of9% per annum for a period of 5 years from the dateof commencement of commercial production.

4.1.10 Seed capital assistance to First GenerationEntrepreneurs to set-up Micro Enterprises @10% ofthe Machinery cost, which will be deducted fromthe eligible investment subsidy.

4.1.11 50% Reimbursement of cost involved in skill

upgradation and training the local manpower limitedto Rs.2000 per person.

4.1.12 50% subsidy on the expenses incurred for qualitycertification/ patent registration limited to Rs. 2.00Lakhs for MSE’s.

4.1.13 25% subsidy on specific cleaner production measureslimited to Rs.5.00 Lakhs

4.1.14 To extend investment subsidy to the identifiedservice activities related to industries setup in allMunicipal Corporation limits in the state as per thelist appended as Annexure - II.

4.2.0 Medium Enterprises & Large Industries MediumEnterprise means an industry in which Investmenton plant and machinery up to limit as defined by theGovernment of India from time to time. LargeIndustry means an industry in which the investmenton plant and machinery is less than Rs 250 croresexcept Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.

4.2.1 100% reimbursement of Stamp duty and transfer dutypaid by the industry on purchase of land meant forindustrial use.

4.2.2. 100% reimbursement of Stamp duty for Lease ofLand/Shed/ Buildings and also mortgages andhypothecations.

4.2.3 25% rebate in land cost limited to Rs.10.00 Lakhs inIndustrial Estates/Industrial Parks.

4.2.4 25% Land conversion charges for industrial use limitedto Rs.10.0 lakhs only for Medium Enterprises.

4.2.5 Fixed power cost reimbursement @ Rs.0.75 per unit(upper ceiling) on the proposed revised rates (2010-11) for 5 years from the date of commencement ofcommercial production. In case, decrease in PowerTariff, the reimbursement will be reducedproportionately.

4.2.6 Reimbursement of 25% VAT/CST or State Goods andServices Tax (SGST) for a period of 5 years from thedate of commencement of commercial production.

4.2.7 50% Reimbursement of cost involved in skillupgradation and training the local manpower limitedto Rs.2000 per person.

4.2.8 50% subsidy on the expenses incurred for qualitycertification/patent registration limited to Rs. 2.00Lakhs only for Medium Enterprises.

4.2.9 25% subsidy on specific cleaner production measureslimited to Rs.5.00 Lakhs.

4.2.10 Infrastructure like roads, power and water will beprovided at door step of the industry for standaloneunits by contributing 50% of the cost of infrastructurefrom IIDF with a ceiling of Rs.1.00 Crore, subject to(a) the location should be beyond 10 kms from theexisting Industrial Estates/IDA’s having vacant land/shed for allotment and (b) cost of the infrastructurelimited to 15% of the eligible fixed capital investmentmade in the industry.

4.3.0 Scheduled Castes / Scheduled Tribe Entrepreneurs

373737

SC/ST Entrepreneurs mean those units establishedas sole Proprietor or invariably having 100% share inPartnership/Private Limited Companies videGovernment Order 10th read above. Scheduled Casteand Scheduled Tribe entrepreneurs can also set upindustries covered in the Annexure-III to availincentives in this policy.

4.3.1 100% reimbursement of Stamp duty and transfer dutypaid by the industry on purchase of land meant forindustrial use.

4.3.2 100% reimbursement of Stamp duty for Lease of Land/Shed/ Buildings and also mortgages andhypothecations.

4.3.3 33 1/3% rebate in land cost limited to Rs.10.00 Lakhsin Industrial Estates/Industrial Parks.

4.3.4 25% Land conversion charges for the industrial uselimited to Rs.10.0 lakhs.

4.3.5 Fixed power cost reimbursement @ Rs.1.00 per unit(upper ceiling)on the proposed revised rates (2010-11) for 5 years from the date of commencement ofcommercial production. In case, decrease in PowerTariff, the reimbursement will be reducedproportionately.

4.3.6 Seed capital assistance to First GenerationEntrepreneurs to set-up Micro Enterprises @10% ofthe Machinery cost, which will be deducted fromthe eligible investment subsidy.

4.3.7 35% investment subsidy on fixed capital Investmentfor Micro and Small Enterprises by SC and STEntrepreneurs and additional 5% investment subsidyfor SC Women and ST Women Entrepreneurs, with amaximum limit per unit is Rs.50.00 Lakhs (i.e. 35%for SC and ST Entrepreneurs and 40% for SC Womenand ST Women entrepreneurs). Additional 5%investment subsidy for units set up in Scheduled Areasby ST entrepreneurs with a maximum limit per unitis Rs.50.00 Lakhs.

4.3.8 Reimbursement of 100% VAT/CST or State Goods andServices Tax (SGST) for a period of 5 years from thedate of commencement of commercial productionto Micro Enterprises.

4.3.9 Reimbursement of 50% VAT/CST or State Goods andServices Tax (SGST) for a period of 5 years from thedate of commencement of commercial productionto Small Enterprises.

4.3.10 Interest subsidy under Pavala Vaddi Scheme on theterm loan taken on the fixed capital investment byMicro and Small Enterprises in excess of 3% perannum subject to a maximum reimbursement of 9%per annum for a period of 5 years from the date ofcommencement of commercial production.

4.3.11 50% Reimbursement of cost involved in skillupgradation and training the local manpower limitedto Rs.2000 per person.

4.3.12 50% subsidy on the expenses incurred for quality

certification/ patent registration limited to Rs. 2.00Lakhs for Micro and Small Enterprises.

4.3.13 25% subsidy on specific cleaner production measureslimited to Rs.5.00 Lakhs.

4.3.14 For Micro and Small Enterprises set up by ScheduledCaste and Scheduled Tribe entrepreneurs,Infrastructure like roads, power and water will beprovided at doorstep of the industry for stand aloneunits by contributing 50% of the cost of infrastructurefrom IIDF with a ceiling of Rs.1.00 Crore, subject to(a) the location should be beyond 10 kms from theexisting Industrial Estates/IDAs having vacant land/shed for allotment and (b) cost of the infrastructurelimited to 15% of the eligible fixed capital investmentmade in the industry. 50% of the cost of infrastructureis raised to 75% in respect of units set up by STentrepreneurs in Scheduled areas.

4.3.15 The line of activity of Proclainer is considered aseligible exclusively in case of Scheduled Caste andScheduled Tribe entrepreneurs and incentive shallbe extended under service activity.

4.3.16 Joint venture industries of Scheduled Caste orScheduled Tribe entrepreneurs should be owned 100%by Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe entrepreneursor a combination of Scheduled Caste and ScheduledTribe promoters. In case of combined ownership theincentives will be determined basing on majorityholding by Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribepromoters. Such majority Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe share holding should continue forat least six (6) years from the date of production,failing which the special incentives allowed toScheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe entrepreneurs willbe recovered.

4.4 Women EntrepreneursWomen entrepreneurs mean those units establishedas sole Proprietress or invariably having 100% sharein Partnership/Private Limited Companies videGovernment Order 11th read above.

4.4.1 Additional 5% investment subsidy on fixed capitalinvestment subject to a maximum of Rs.5.00 lakhsto MSE’s.

4.4.2 All other benefits as per para No.4.1.0 (Micro & SmallEnterprises under IIPP 2010-15).

4.5.0 Mega ProjectsMega Project means the Industrial unit, which setsup with a capital investment of Rs.250 Crores andabove or a project that creates employment to morethan 2000 persons.

4.5.1 Mega projects i.e. projects with an investment ofRs.250 Crores and above or a project that createsemployment to more than 2000 persons are eligiblefor all the incentives available for Large Industriesand Medium Scale Enterprises.

4.5.2 Further, the Government will also extend tailor-made

383838

benefits to suit to a particular investmentrequirements on case to case basis.

4.6.0 Existing Micro/Small/Medium Enterprises Industries50% subsidy on the expenses incurred for qualitycertification limited to Rs. 2.00 Lakh.

4.7.0 Infrastructure support:4.7.1 To provide Rs.100.00 crores of budget every year for

promotion of quality infrastructure like roads, power,water, waste management etc. under IndustrialInfrastructure Development Fund (IIDF) Scheme.

4.7.2 Promotion of National Manufacturing Investment Zone(NMIZ) along National Highways to capitalize thestrengths in line with Government of India initiativesfor value addition within the State.

4.7.3 Promotion of Industrial Corridors to leverage theexisting strengths for optimum utilization ofresources

4.7.4 Reservation of 30-40% of the land for MSMEs in theupcoming industrial estates developed by AndhraPradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC).

4.7.5 APIIC shall allocate 16.2% of number of plots toScheduled Caste Entrepreneurs and 6% of number ofplots to Scheduled Tribe Entrepreneurs in newIndustrial Estate and preferential allotment to SC/ST entrepreneurs in Existing Industrial Estates

4.7.6 Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation(APIIC) shall allocate 10% of number of plots toWomen Entrepreneurs in the new Industrial Estates.

4.8.0 Other benefits (to all categories) Reservation of 10%of water for industrial use from the existing projectsas well as future projects will continue.

4.9.0 Facilitation of Industries4.9.1 Strengthening of existing Single Window System4.9.2 Creation of “Investment Promotion Cell” A Cell would

be created in the Commissionerate of Industries tofacilitate the investors in effective manner withadequate infrastructure and outsourcing the supportservices to facilitate investors by providing pre-investment services and also to facilitate them toget requisite clearances under the Single WindowClearance System till the project is commissioned.

4.10.0 Textile Sector Government felt that there is a needfor promotion of Textile industry in sustainablemanner and also for value addition within the Statefor optimum utilization of the cotton available inthe State.

a. The eligibility period for Spinning/Weaving/Garmenting units commissioned during IIPP 2005-10period is extended by another 3 years, making totaleligibility period as 8 years (2005-13).

b. To continue the benefits of existing incentives underTextile and Apparel Policy 2005-10 [G.O.Ms.No.300Industries & Commerce (Tex) Department,dated.08.11.2005] by another 5 years.

5. To promote Andhra Pradesh as the best investmentdestination for investors in India, the StateGovernment have offered various incentives/benefitsto all eligible new industrial enterprises set up inthe State except in the Municipal Corporation limitsof Vijayawada, Greater Visakhapatnam MunicipalCorporation and Grater Hyderabad MunicipalCorporation excluding existing Industrial Estates/Parks, Industrial Estates notified/ to be notified andcommence commercial production on or after1.7.2010 but before 31-3-2015. However, theIndustrial Enterprises located in Sanathnagar,Azamabad, Chandulal Baradari and KattedanIndustrial Estates of Hyderabad and RangareddyDistricts are not eligible for any incentives/concessions. However, the service activities set upin all Municipal Corporation limits as appended inAnnexure–II are eligible only for investment subsidyand all other service / Business activities are noteligible for any incentives set up anywhere in theState. Projects involving substantial Expansion /Diversification of existing industries in the eligiblelines of activities are also entitled for benefitsoffered under the policy. The list of ineligibleIndustries/ activities is appended to, as AnnexureIII.

6. Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe entrepreneurscan set up projects covered in the line of activitiesin Annexure – III and Annexure – IV to avail theincentives under the Industrial Investment PromotionPolicy (IIPP) 2010-2015 in the State, however projectsproposed to be set up in the Municipal Corporationlimits of Vijayawada, Greater VisakhapatnamMunicipal Corporation and Grater HyderabadMunicipal Corporation shall obtain pollutionclearances wherever necessary. Service Sectorprojects set up by the Scheduled Caste/ScheduledTribe entrepreneurs will be limited to 50% of theBudget provision in order to encourage the remaining50% for the manufacturing sector.

7. The activities indicated in the Annexure-II, Annexure-III and Annexure-IV will be reviewed from time totime for any revisions required.

8. Necessary amendments/ Orders will be issued by theconcerned Departments. Detailed operationalguidelines will be issued by the Commissioner ofIndustries separately.

9. This order issues with the concurrence of Finance(Exp.I&C) Department, vide Peshi No.8440 ofPrincipal Finance Secretary (FP) dated.26.6.2010.

10. Copy of this order is available on Internet and canbe accessed at address http://goir.ap.gov.in. (BYORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OFANDHRA PRADESH)

393939

For sale, blow moulding machines2 litre capacity, fully automatic (Make Rana)1 litre capacity, fully automatic (Make Vikum)

Parmeshwari IndustriesIDA, Kattedan, Hyderabad. Cell 9291696100

Khan Die Works (Since 1986)

Manufacturers of Blow and Injection mouldson latest CNC Techniques @ MJ MarketContact: MA Hakeem (Khan Saab)

Cell : 09394700888

Imported used injection mouldingmachines for sale

ContactV. Suresh

Cell : 9849022212

Classifieds

Classified Advertisements are beingintroduced for the benefit of members

at very nominal cost &is only for the members

Contact @ APPMA Office for details.Tel : 23203191

Bio-plastics - Need of the TimeAt present, the demand for bio-degradable materials is huge both in China and in the world. The quantity needed athome in the packing industry and catering industry alone totals more than 3million tons. The international marketdemands even more, with a 30-50% year-on-year increase, the domestic demand in 2010 is expected to reach 13.437millionwith a total market value of over 150 billion, while that of the world will be about 20million ton. Recent years, the bio-degradable industry has witnessed a rapid development. National policies are made to escalate the industry to a high-end one, which would hopefully be the key areas in bio-degradable and absorbable material industry by 2015.

The 2009 Shenzhen China International Bio-plastic Exhibition, is the most time-honored and professional of its kind inChina. It serves as a platform for trade and technology exchanges for business people from all over the world. In 2009,entrepreneurs from about 20 countries and areas participated in this fair, many of which were from the U.S.A., the U.K.,Germany, Italy, Thailand, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. During the exhibition, world-renownedcorporations like as BSF and INNOR had discussions on the application and future of biodegradable materials.

To meet the demands of many bio-degradable enterprises, Second Shenzhen International Bio-plastic Exhibition willbe held in Great China Exchange Plaza from 16th the 17th, November 2010. The fair invites business people in plasticmanufacturing, catering, packaging, machine building, and top officials form star-rate hotels. Besides, officials fromlocal government departments for economic development and International Investment Organization will also be invitedto the fair. The fair is expected to be of high-level and distinctive feature with an influence on the world bio-degradableindustry.

Scope of Exhibits:Bio-plastic products: Biodegradable Bags, Biodegradable Bowls, Biodegradable Cups, Biodegradable Containers,Biodegradable Plates, Biodegradable Trays, Biodegradable Cutlery, Biodegradable Knives, Biodegradable Forks,Biodegradable Spoons, Biodegradable Sporks, Cornstarch tableware, Oxo-Biodegradable masterbatches, Bio-plasticsadditives, Corn Starch Bags, plastic container, Sugarcane Plates and Bowls, Biodegradable plastic bowl, BiodegradableCatering Serving Fork, Biodegradable Compostable Bagasse Plates, Biodegradable Forks, Biodegradable Heavy Duty PicnicPack, Biodegradable Knives, Biodegradable Catering Salad Tongs, Biodegradable Catering Serving Fork, BiodegradableCatering Serving Spoon, Biodegradable Catering Small Tongs, Biodegradable Spoons, Biodegradable Cutlery, Biobasedsubstitutes to traditional plastics, 100% Biodegradable,100% Compostable,100% Biodegradable Cardboard, Biodegradableshopping bag, Bio-degradable plastics, Biodegradable bags, Pulp environmental tableware, Molded Pulp, Molded PulpCup, Medical bio-plastic products, E-Bio Plastic Products, Plastic Food Biotechnology, Bio-plastic cell phone case, Bio-plastic cartridges, Bio-plastic toothpaste box, Bio-plastic comb, Bio-plastic toothbrush, Bio-plastic toothpick, BioplasticsCup, Bio-plastic products and other products.

CONTACT: TEL: 86-755-28188469 13684940952 Liu LuFAX: 86-755-83721979 EMAIL:lu_liu1989@163.com

msn:belly201059@hotmail.com, WEB: www.szhowell.net

404040

414141

New Members List

Sl. Name of the Member Representative Ph.No. Line of Activity

1. PLASTOPACK: N K Bothra 24750512 Mfrs of Plastic containers in4-1-10/1, Tilak Road, Opp. Posnett Bhavan, 9346250888 HDPE, Pet from 3ml to 20ltrs.Hyderabad – 500 001,

2. SHIVANANDA PLASTICS PVT LTD: P. Harinath & P. Prahlad 08682 – 272528 Mfrs of PVC Pipes.Near Industrial Estate, 9440622120Narkatpally – Villaga & Mandal, 9440622121Nalgonda – Dist.;

3. S M ROTOFLEX PVT LTD: B L Bhandari 23875550 Polythene bags &B-70, APIE Balanagar, 23875551 Printed bags.Hyderabad -500 037, 9849055500

4. INNOVATIVE POLYMERS (P) LTD M. Surendernath (M.D) 23096499 Injection Moulding PlasticB-2, Phase –I, IDA., Jeedimetla, A. Chandra Sekhar 23093161 Components.Hyderabad – 500 055 Reddy 9849010377

9849422158

5 S V POLYPACK INDSUTRIES L Pratap Reddy 65356580 Mfrs of L D Polyfilms.Plot no 247, Silver Oak Bungalows, 9949466073Phase -2, IDA Cherlapally, Hyderabad;

6. MEENU PLAST (P) LTD Disposable Containers.Sy no 1361A, 1360, 1361E,Nandigama, Kothur – Mandal,Mahaboob Nagar – 509210

7. DUGAR POLYMERS LTD Manoj Dugar (CMD) 66311314 Del Credre and Consignment1-11-240/5/1, 5th Floor, Dilip Surana (VP) 984905110 Stockist for M/s. IndianShyamlal Building, Begumpet, 9849047968 Oil Corporation LtdHyderabad – 500 016 for their PE & PP Product.

8. AYUSHMAN MERCHANTS PVT LTD Manoj Dugar (CMD) 27847821 Del Credre and ConsignmentPlot no 35, D V Colony, 1st Floor, Dilip Surana (VP) 27721360 Stockist for M/s. ChemplastMinister Road, Secunderabad – 500 003 9849051100 Sanmar Ltd for their

9849047968 PVC Resin Product.

9. SAI POLY PACK P Srinivas Rao 66321525 Poly bag, H M, LD, PP,4-4-230 /232, Pan Bazar, 9848456465 Stretch Film, Air Bubble Film,Lala Temple Lane, Secunderabad – 500 003 With Flexo Printing & Roto

Gravure Printing.

10. MONA ENTERPRISES D Mohan (Proprietor) 9848411108 Manufacturer of PlasticH no. 16-2-281/14/A, Mathangi Complex, K. Prabakar (Manager) 9849413457 Injuction Moulding itemsLB Nagar, Godavari Khanni, & Reprocessing Unit.Dist. Karimnagar – 505209

424242

434343

Dear members,Now you can ask your Income Tax relatedqueries to Mr. Kamal Rathi, F.C.A. Kindly sendall the enquires addressed totaxqueriesappma@rediffmail.com copy markedto info@appma.org.in. All queries will be repliedby Mr. Kamal Rathi and published in A.P. PLASTICTIMES for benefit of other enterpruners

~Editor

ATTENTION

May this DiwaliLight up newdreams, fresh hopes,

undiscovered avenues, differentperspectives, everything bright& beautifulfil and fill ur dayswith pleasant surprises andmoments.Happy Dassheraand Diwali APPMA

Mr. Kamal RathiF.C.A.

444444

454545

Design Sensitization Seminar9th August, 2010 at Hotel NKM’s Grand, Hyderabad

Mr. Jayadev Meela, President of Andhra Pradesh PlasticManufacturers’ Association, welcomed the Chief Guest,Mr.B.Suresh Babu, Additional Director of Industries, Guestsof Honor, Mr.K.Manoharan, Chief Manager Projects, CIPET,and Mr.N.T.Naidu, Deputy Director MSME, Hyderabad andall the members and Past Presidents of APPMA. On thisoccasion he thanked NID for taking the initiative ofconducting the Design Sensitization Seminar. He hoped thatthe members would be benefited from this seminar.

Prof. TV Prasad Chowdhry gave a brief on National Instituteof Design.

The Chief Guest, Mr.B.Suresh Babu, Additional Director ofIndustries informed the members about different schemesavailable with the Ministry of industries and asked themembers to avail these schemes and improve their business.

The Guest of Honor, Mr.K.Manoharan, Chief ManagerProjects, CIPET enlightened the members of design facilitiesavailable with them and offered their services for thebenefit of SMEs in plastic industry. He recommitted theircooperation for any program that APPMA forwards for thebenefit of plastic industry.

The second guest of Honor Mr.N.T.Naidu, Deputy DirectorMSME, Hyderabad explained in detail the process afterdesign sensitization to finally develop the moulds and theMSME financial assistance schemes available forentrepreneurs benefits.

Mr.J.Venugopal, Hon.Secretary expressed Vote of Thanks.

After a short Tea Break, the seminar resumed with thetechnical sessions.

The first technical session was presented by Mr.ArvindDutta, on the topic Trends in Plastics. He explained indetail the importance of raw material selection in designof a new product.

The second technical session was by Mr.Suresh Navandar.His topic was Importance of Product design for PlasticIndustry. He enlightened the members as to how with aslight change in design of a product would change theeconomics of a company. He dealt in length on this subjectby giving live case studies. His presentation was veryinformative and educative.

The third Technical session came from Mr.VP Vijay Kumar.He spoke on the topic Forget Big Think Small. The relevancyof design clinics for the new and old entrepreneurs wasexplained. The process of mould creation needs an in-depthstudy and hence the precision with which a doctor does hiswork is equally importance while deciding the moulddesigns. An interactive session followed where theparticipants asked quite a few questions and the presentersclarified their doubts.

The last presentation was from Mr.M.Ravikant, TechnicalOfficer from CIPET, Hyderabad. He spoke on softwareavailable for Design Sensitization. Using CAD,CAM & CAEhe explained how these software have revolutionized thenew product design possibilities.

Mr. K.Narayana Reddy, Jt.Secretary, APPMA concluded theSeminar, with a vote of Thanks.

464646