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Rs. 1,000 crores 190 acres Plastic Park sanctioned to Mangaluru to employ 30,000
'Centre to sanction plastic park soon'

About 36 companies have already shown a keen interest in setting up the firm in the plastic park.

Resolution opposing land acquisition passed - against laying the natural gas pipeline of the GAIL

Fumzas new cruise passenger boat tested for seaworthiness
http://www.fumzas.net/

When will Mangaluru launch its first amphibious boat?

Narendra Modi Cabinet approves biggest ever highway development plan worth Rs 7 lakh crore

The official said the highway projects approved also include economic corridor developments aimed at the faster movement of cargo.

The government had earlier planned to develop economic corridors with a length of about 21,000 kilometres besides 14,000 kilometres of feeder routes. The corridors included Mumbai-Cochin-Kanyakumari, Bengaluru-Mangaluru, Hyderabad-Panaji and Sambalpur-Ranchi, to name a few.

Does that mean both NH-66 & NH-75 are economic corridors?

Mangaluru-Raichur (461 km) will be an Economic Corridor

I doubt this. I think Mangaluru-Shivamogga-Davanagere-Ballari-Raichur road will be upgraded as a proper fourlane road excluding westernghat stretch.

MCFL Q2 net profit up 34%, co to invest Rs 600 cr in new plant

U.S. Consul engages entrepreneurs ahead of GES

HPCL to acquire MRPL in share-swap deal

Indian JBF targets commercial volume at Mangalore PTA plant by end of March 2018

A seafood park at Mangaluru is in conceptualisation stage

The state has eight food parks in Dakshina Kannada ...

Where is food park of Dakshina Kannada located?

National vendor development programme from Nov 7

I had totally forgotten about HAL presence in Kasargod. Whether Kerala is interested in developing Kasargod for aerospace including seaplane?

Work Plan is needed for exploring Industrial Opportunities

Good that meeting on IT opportunities was held in gulf countries. There are a lot of ICT related stuffs Mangalore can do in Gulf Countries as I posted earlier. What we need is an expert team in Building Automation & Home Informatics. Mangalore can come up with its own ICT network conecting all engineering colleges including AIMIT similar to SCCN or NAIN to build educational infrastructure to create man power to serve Gulf countries in Home Automation sector. (check the end of post #352 below) Let me also add this to the next post on Analytics (Artificial Intelligence) educational infrastructure requirements. I don't know why the central or the state government didn't think of ICT network for startup coast engineering colleges or at least include a college in SCCN! Though Incubation Centre in Mangalore can be used there is nothing like learning at college campus by automating entire campus.

Syngene site in Mangalore is being mobilised and expected to start construction shortly

MSEZ industries have improved local economy: Mangaluru MP

Not enough without IIPE, NIPER. Why Mangaluru MP is now silent on NIELIT? IT Park will get requisite boost once these research institutes are established in Mangaluru.

Ample opportunities for investors in DK, Udupi: MP

He said the Centre is contemplating on setting up a plastic park on a 300-acre land at Ganjimutt in Mangaluru. The park will come up using the raw materials from MRPL.

In his presidential address, MLA J R Lobo said that a sum of Rs 2,500 crore has been sanctioned for various development works in Mangaluru. Priority will be given for infrastructure development.

Will CIPET be located nearby Plastic Park? That would be most useful for mutual interaction between industries, experts & students.

183rd SEAC Meeting

Once the industrial plots are completely sold expected establishments are interlinked/interdependent projects such as Garment Industries, IT/BT & Electronics, Agro Based Industries, Pharmaceutical Industries and general industries.

Wish for Medical/Hospital Garments, Medical Textiles/Fabrics, Medical IT/BT & Electronics industries in Mangaluru. Wonder how many Additive Industries especially for medical applications, Nano Industries especially for medical applications, Technical Textile Industries especially Biotextile Industries will come in Ganjimutt.

Ganjimutt Plastic Park: Site Inspection

While inspecting the site for 'Plastic Park' suppose a coconut park is discovered then whether we are going to have 'Coconut Park' there or not?

Here is the list of parks proposed in Mangalore so far - Apparels Park, Textile Park, IT Park, Plastic Park, Pharmaceuticals Park, Marine Biotech Park, Food Park, Coconut Park, Seafood Park, Electronics Manufacturing Hub. I think there was a proposal for Machine Tools Park also. And then a Rubber Plant was proposed in Sullia.

KIOCL achieves 344% higher pellet production at 1.06 mt in H1

MRPL Q2 net profit jumps to Rs. 477.95 crore

If MRPL spends Rs. 200 crores every year then Mangaluru will have a world class IIPE in another five years.

Develop phase 2 of Bykampady Industrial Area: KCCI

KCCI President Vathika Pai said that the chamber will urge the State government to develop phase 2 of Bykampady Industrial Area in the Jesco land.

Briefing reporters here on Wednesday, she said that making smaller plots of the two acre and one acre would help in supporting the growth of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the region.

There is a huge demand for industrial lands at Bykampady because of the proximity to the port and NH 66. There is a lot of demand for smaller plots from SMEs who are paying exorbitant rent, rendering their units unviable. A single window clearance facility to support entrepreneurs would help the upcoming SMEs in the region, she said.

About 348 acre land is available in Bykampady. If the KIADB distributes at least half of the land, then it would benefit the SMEs in the region, she felt.

She said that Bykampady Township Authority proposal is ready and would be submitted to the state government shortly.

Vathika said that KCCI will continue to represent to the authorities concerned to shift the CRZ headquarters to Mangaluru instead of Bengaluru. "Its presence in this coastal area is what is required and not in a city which has no coastline at all," she said.

Even MRPL, MCF, KIOCL headquarters should be shifted to Mangaluru.

iPizza all set to melt in to hearts of ice-cream connoisseurs
Ideal Ice-Cream scoops up 8 medals in season six of Great Indian Ice-Cream Contest
Hangyo bags six national awards for best ice cream

Meet Mangala's Man of Multi-apps Maha-Machines
Highspeed boat delivered to coastguard by BDIL
Baikampady Industrial Area: Expecting 2nd stage development

'Don't encourage industry at the cost of agri'

Apparel Park proposal should be revived, 2

If apparel industry has to be developed to replace beedi industries then a model similar to the existing beedi industries has to be planned. That is, tailors taking raw material (i.e., cloths, threads, buttons etc) from agents and then submitting finished products. Other model of interest is disappearing handloom homeindustries model (handloom office, मग्ग कछेरि) where thread is supplied by agents and finished product is submitted back by weavers. Otherwise working women should have facilities to look after their small kids in the park itself.

It is positive news that IT Parks are getting filled in tier-II cities of Karnataka {1}. When will IT Park works will start at Mangaluru? What is the progress on NIELIT?

Whether Mangaluru/Udupi will get 'Gem & Jewellery Park' also as Udupi is getting Gem & Jewellery Training Institute?

Industries, major consumers asked to reduce water consumption by 30% in summer

Karnataka sets the ball rolling on first plastic park

Anil Kumar Sastry
Mangaluru, November 26, 2017 23:36 IST
Updated: November 26, 2017 23:36 IST

The State government is prepared to provide 96 acres of Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board land at Ganjimutt, off Mangaluru, for the park.

The process of setting up Karnataka’s first ‘plastic park’ in Mangaluru has gained momentum with the State government identifying 96 acres of land for phase 1 of the project and Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL) ready to supply the raw material.

The government is prepared to provide 96 acres of Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) land at Ganjimutt, off Mangaluru, for the park, and 32 entrepreneurs have shown interest in opening units there, said Gokuldas Nayak, Joint Director of the Industries and Commerce Department.

The sole petroleum refinery in the State, MRPL, has abundant raw material (polypropylene), up to 440,000 tonnes, to set in production, said MRPL managing director H. Kumar.

The department is trying make the park a cluster so as to get a grant (of about Rs. 40 crore) from the Union government to create infrastructure, including a common effluent plant, common testing facility, roads and drainage. The common infrastructure will enable entrepreneurs to cut down their costs, Mr. Nayak said.

Training and testing

The proposed park, which could provide employment for over 30,000 people, is also to get a unit of the Central Institute of Plastic Engineering and Technology to train youngsters and test products coming out of the units in the park, says Union Minister of State for Entrepreneurship and Skill Development Anantkumar Hegde.

The three primary stakeholders — the Union Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, the State government, and the anchor tenant (MRPL) — are already in the picture and the process of forming a special purpose vehicle or another entity to establish the park is in motion. MRPL is striving to create the required ecosystem for the park by involving the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and other bodies, Mr. Kumar said.

Plastindia 2018 to benefit plastic industry, organisers

With the 10th International Plastics Exhibition, Conference and Convention — Plastindia 2018 — scheduled to be organised in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, from February 7 to 12, 2018, Plastindia Foundation has stated that a large participation of entrepreneurs from Mangaluru will promote substantial growth of the sector in the Karnataka coast.

With a plastic park and Central Institute of Plastic Engineering and Technology in the pipeline for Mangaluru, there is wide scope for the further growth of the industry in the region, he said.

There are also a couple of bioplastic manufactures in Gandhinagar/Ahmedabad. But what Mangaluru needs is seaweed based bioplastic/biotextile products manufacturing ability, which is still in research phase - Seaweeds can be a new source for bioplastics. Coastal Gujarat & Tamilnadu have seaweed farmers. Central salt and marine and chemical research institute (CSMCRI), Bhavnagar, Gujarat has developed many seaweed technologies like cultivation, biofertilizer (bio-stimulants), biodegradable films, non-animal gelatin capsules etc. (I was thinking so far CMFRI/NIOT are main Indian research institutes on seaweed). Having CSMCRI along with CIPET in Mangaluru will give a boost to seaweed based industries in Canara, Konkan & Malabar region. We also need to know how to use effluents of desalination plants.

By the way, how many companies in Plastic Park will be manufacturing high performance medical grade plastics?

KCCI opposes reported move to close down Mangaluru ESIC office

Drones to keep areca plantations healthy

Working on standards for plastic toys: U.T. Khader

Toys are important but hope Ganjimatt Plastic Park will focus more on high-performance plastics.

MLC Ivan insists on Garment Industries

Good that a few people have started their own home garment industry. Now it has to be given a industrial cooperative society form and be developed like cooperative handloom industry. Even coconut/coir industry can be developed in a similar model.

Supplementary process initiated for Plastic Park with CIPET, 2

Neera policy notified in gazette

ESI's sub-regional office will not be shifted: MP

DC directs industries department to provide basic amenities to industrial areas

What are the types of industries planned at proposed Puttur SEZ? Or is it SAZ?

Baikampady Industrial Area road gets concrete

Nabard estimates Rs. 11,921 crore credit potential for Dakshina Kannada

Made in India miso

Rs. 273 crores Expansion of IOCL Mangalore Terminal for Blending

KIOCL will start the production of ductile iron spun pipes after overhauling BFU

Stating that the blast furnace unit (BFU) of the company in Mangaluru will be revamped, the Minister said the company will start the production of ductile iron spun pipes after its overhauling. The unit can produce 2 lakh tonnes of these pipes after the revamp of the unit, he said.

KIOCL ductile iron spun pipe (DISP) project was silent for sometime & has become alive again.

My wish is somebody should start manufacturing Surgical/Pharma/Medical & Marine Grade Stainless Steel/Titanium at Mangaluru. If this is materialized then we can have its biomedical & marine applications cluster. I don't know whether CS India Steel is still there in Udupi.

Mangalore LNG LNG Terminal- Capacity, SPA Contracts, Construction, Capex, Companies and Trade

This report is on Mangalore of Tulunadu or some other Mangalore?

MCF conducts public hearing for project expansion
MCF to invest Rs. 1,500 cr. to double double production of fertilizers

The Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilisers (MCF), a subsidiary of Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd., is on an expansion mode to nearly double its production in about two years.

MCF, which produces about a million ton of fertilizers a year, has plans to add another 7.5 lakh tonnes during its expansion programme, said Director Prabhakar Rao. The proposal is in line with the Union Government’s make-in India policy to reduce imports. Now the country is importing about 10 million tonnes of fertilizers every year.

Speaking at a mandatory public hearing programme organised by the company in the presence of Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner S. Sasikanth Senthil here, Mr. Rao said another 1.5 lakh tonnes of urea production would be added to the existing 4 lakh tonne production while production of DAP/NPK would get increased from the present 4 lakh tonnes to one million tonnes in the next two-five years.

The company would be investing close to Rs. 1,500 crore for the expansion programme, which also includes setting up a poly-carboxylate ether unit to produce super plastisizer that is mixed with concrete to strengthen the mix.

The company does not require any additional land and the new units would come up within the 192 acres of its premises at Panambur. Nor would it require additional water than 9 million litres per day supplied by Mangaluru City Corporation as MCF has become a zero-effluent discharge entity. All the water is utilised within the premises, Mr. Rao said.

The expansion would provide direct employment to about 400 people in additional to the existing 1,200 and indirect employment to over 3,000 people in terms of packing bags production, transportation etc.

Where packing bags are manufactured? What happening with biofertilizer production from seaweed?

Amenity building of Campco to be inaugurated on Jan 21

Union Budget 2018-19: ASSOCHAM seeks 10% customs duty on pulp imports

Alas, nobody is teaching Tuluvas how to produce pulp & paper from seaweeds. What we should plan for is a 'pulp & paper, printing, packing & labeling industrial cluster' mostly near a riverway for easy transportation of seaweeds and outputs. We need to use rivers for agriculture, industries which needs waterways and also probably for BRTS. Only red area of Mangaluru-Udupi belt shown in my old post in this forum is to be used for urbanization and industrialization except for SAZ. As these ideas develop we can consolidate them as a post on 'Mangaluru-Udupi seaerotropolis' or 'Alupa seaerotropolis' later. The government has changed name of 'Mangaluru CEZ' to 'Canara CEZ' but I will identify it as 'Alupa CEZ' after Alupa kings who ruled this region for more than 1000 years as Canara is a name given by portugese colonizers (we have already renamed South Canara & North Canara successfully but this government trying to bring it back) and also as many things named after Canara have ditched the region already. But before the 'Alupa seaerotropolis' the government should be ready with property laws for sea! By the way hope that proposed Skills University will be established in Uttara Kannada and focus on developing skills on mariculture including seaweed cultivation and other marine stuffs also.

We have to also explore whether Seaweed Fabrics microeconomy can be built to replace beedi industries by allocating seaweed garment & apparel manufacturing tasks to home workshops or village workshops through handloom societies or a similar cooperative society.

Union minister, Suresh Prabhu, to interact with entrepreneurs in city

Grace Ice Cream bags three national awards

Campco gets FIEO Southern Region award
CAMPCO gets FIEO Regional Export Award
Union minister Suresh Prabhu to inaugurate Campco’s new amenity building on Jan 21

Nalin Kumar Kateel, member of Parliament, Dakshina Kannada will lay the foundation for arecanut, pepper and rubber master godown at Kavu site.

Amenity building is added to the factory to meet the present international food safety standards and zoning of food processing area as per FSSAI Standards.

The building is built at a cost of Rs13 crore with a total area of 42,000 sq ft, having three floors and one cellar. Each floor has an area of 10,500 sq ft.

A total number of 800 workers/staff will work in three shifts. The factory is fitted with CC cameras for security and safety. It has been equipped with fire safety equipment. To keep up with green energy, the factory has been built with a system for rain water harvesting, bio fuelled boiler and VAM. It is also having infrastructure like Air Shower, Canteen and Wash Rooms, Changing Rooms, Hand Washing stations etc.

‘India to emerge $5 trillion economy in 8 years’

Dakshina Kannada to be selected for the pilot on GDP growth

Union Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu on Saturday said that his Ministry will select Dakshina Kannada district as a pilot for its plans to improve National Gross Domestic Product (GDP) through district-level plans.

He said the Ministry also has plans to make Mangaluru a hub of education and health tourism by tapping the existing vast resources in the region. Mangaluru would become a new growth engine with its many advantages, he added.

District has potential to emerge on top with high GDP, says Suresh Prabhu

HPCL may acquire MRPL in cash, share-swap deal

Whatever but for next five years spend Rs. 200 crores per year on setting up world class IIPE in Mangaluru. We also need 'Indian Institute of Hazard/Disaster Management & Informatics' as Mangaluru is the chemical inventory of Karnataka.

'Syngene has started construction activities of API manufacturing facility - on track to be operational in 2019'

Construction of Storage Tank Terminal Facility, M.K.Agrotech

How many of the investments mentioned here have materialized so far? - Dakshina Kannada gets Rs 12K crore investment proposals