Small Enterprises

'Up small units' service tax exemption'

2012-02-25T11:50:00.000+05:30

'Up small units' service tax exemption'

We agree..!

Gold Refining Video

2012-02-24T19:36:00.000+05:30

Gold Refining Video
Here is an interesting tutorial on Gold Refining
It is the Project of the Day !

Kevlar

2012-02-23T13:46:00.000+05:30

Kevlar is the registered trademark for a para-aramid synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora.

Developed at DuPont in 1965, this high strength material was first commercially used in the early 1970s as a replacement for steel in racing tires. Typically it is spun into ropes or fabric sheets that can be used as such or as an ingredient in composite material components.

Currently, Kevlar has many applications, ranging from bicycle tires and racing sails to body armor because of its high tensile strength-to-weight ratio; by this measure it is 5 times stronger than steel on an equal weight basis.

Polyaniline

2012-02-21T13:05:00.000+05:30

Polyaniline (PANI) is a conducting polymer of the semi-flexible rod polymer family. Polyaniline is among a family of conductive polymers, and has properties similar to some metals. It was discovered as “aniline black” in an organic form as part of melanin, a type of organic polymer in 1934.

Melanin does many things in nature, including protecting the skin by regulating UV exposure through a polyaniline interaction. In a natural form, polyaniline is usually found folded with other polymers.

In the late 1990s it became evident that polyaniline was a flexible and highly useful polymer, and could be used in applications ranging from intelligent windows to computer chips.

A History Of The Use Of Alum (Mineral)

2012-02-19T14:38:00.000+05:30

A History Of The Use Of Alum (Mineral)

History always is useful to know...?

WUSME World Union of Small and Medium Enterprises: The new home of SMEs supporting institutions

2012-02-19T10:41:00.000+05:30

WUSME World Union of Small and Medium Enterprises: The new home of SMEs supporting institutions

Make a note...

Can be reference point !

Timely payments by large corporates can boost SME profits by 15 per cent

2012-02-19T10:39:00.000+05:30

Timely payments by large corporates can boost SME profits by 15 per cent

It is a fact....there is law to enforce it too!

But how far it is effective?

Popo corn Machine

2012-02-16T08:40:00.000+05:30

Styrene Butadiene Latexes

2012-02-14T13:10:00.002+05:30

Styrene-butadiene or styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) is a synthetic rubber copolymer consisting of styrene and butadiene. It has good abrasion resistance and good aging stability when protected by additives, and is widely used in car tires, where it may be blended with natural rubber.
It was originally developed prior to World War II in Germany,[1]. Industrial manufacture began during World War 2, where it was used extensively by the USA to replace the Far-East natural rubber supplies captured by the Japanese.
Styrene butadiene latexes usually have a resin content of about 50%. The styrene/butadiene ratio varies from 54:46 to 80:20.

Gold hallmarking fraud: Jewellers 'liable'

2012-02-14T12:35:00.000+05:30

Gold hallmarking fraud: Jewellers 'liable'

Save the consumers....good?

DTPA

2012-02-09T13:19:00.001+05:30

Pentetic acid or diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid (DTPA) is a polyamino carboxylic acid consisting of a diethylenetriamine backbone with five carboxymethyl groups.
The molecule can be viewed as an expanded version of EDTA and it is used similarly.
DTPA is a calcium (Ca-DTPA) or zinc salt (Zn-DTPA) that is used to perform medical
imaging of the brain, kidneys, and lungs.
It is can also be used to remove certain radioactive materials, except uranium or neptunium, from a person’s body.

Diagnostic center

2012-02-06T16:52:00.000+05:30

Diagnostic imaging is a process in which doctors use medical images to determine the source of medical problems in patients.
The future of diagnostic imaging looks to further the trend of finding the problem in a patient early, before any insurmountable damage has been done. However, future methods look to take this a step further.
The total Indian healthcare sector is today 34 billion USD and it is projected to grow to nearly 40 billion by 2012. The diagnostic and pathology market is around two percent of the total market. Indian diagnostic market has been growing fast, at 15-20 percent growth rate but there are lots of development needs.

Chlorinated Methanes

2012-02-06T16:43:00.000+05:30

The chlorination of methane proceeds through a radical mechanism. Like most radical mechanisms there are three steps: initiation, propagation and termination.

The chlorination of methane does not necessarily stop after one chlorination. It may actually be very hard to get a monosubstituted chloromethane. Instead di-, tri- and even tetra-chloromethanes are formed.

Demand for methylene chloride on the export market had been steadily increasing since January, producers said, which had pushed prices to levels some had not previously expected.

Globally, about 90-95% of the chloroform is used as a precursor for HCFC-22, which is used in refrigerants and fluoropolymers such as polytetrafluoro-ethylene (PTFE).

Horse farm

2012-02-06T16:40:00.002+05:30

A stud farm or stud in animal husbandry, is an establishment for selective breeding of livestock. The word "stud" comes from the Old English stod meaning "herd of horses, place where horses are kept for breeding". The Carthusian monks are famous for their role in breeding the Andalusian horse in Spain, while monasteries in Bavaria were responsible for the original Rottaler horse.

Gilsonite

2012-02-06T16:39:00.000+05:30

Gilsonite is a naturally occurring glossy black asphaltic, solid hydrocarbon resin with a low specific gravity. It occurs in its very pure natural state in a mineral called Uintaite.
Gilsonite, a unique natural hydrocarbon high in asphaltenes and nitrogen compounds, is a granular solid that is fully compatible with bitumen. It can be melted into hot bitumen, added during the hot-mix manufacturing process, or blended into a preservation treatment.
Gilsonite is also used in protective coverings, anticorrosive paints, roofing compounds, dark rotogravure printing inks, carbon electrodes for the nuclear industry, varnishes, and as a reducing agent in slurry explosives

SBI waives service fee on SME loans

2012-02-06T00:37:00.000+05:30

SBI waives service fee on SME loans

Thank you..SBI

Activated Alumina

2012-02-03T16:56:00.000+05:30

Activated alumina is manufactured from aluminium hydroxide by dehydroxylating it in a way that produces a highly porous material.

Activated alumina is used for a wide range of adsorbent and catalyst applications including the adsorption of catalysts in polyethylene production, in hydrogen peroxide production, as a selective adsorbent for many chemicals including arsenic, fluoride, in sulfur removal from gas streams (Claus Catalyst process).

Activated alumina is also widely used to remove fluoride from drinking water. In the US, there are widespread programs to fluoridate drinking water.

Activated alumina technology can be expensive, and many of its costs are associated with disposal of the contaminated water that is created when alumina is purged of contaminants and “reset” for future use.

Organic carbonates

2012-02-02T17:02:00.000+05:30

In organic chemistry a carbonate can also refer to a functional group within a larger molecule that contains a carbon atom bound to three oxygen atoms, one of which is double bonded. These

compounds are also known as organocarbonates or carbonate esters, and have the general formula ROCOOR′, or RR′CO3.

Dimercaprol

2012-02-01T11:47:00.001+05:30

Dimercaprol is a chelating (KEE-late-ing) agent. A chelating agent is capable of removing a heavy metal, such as lead or mercury, from the blood.

Dimercaprol is used to treat poisoning with arsenic, gold, or mercury. It is also used together with another medication called edetate disodium (EDTA) to treat lead poisoning.

Dimercaprol is prepared by the bromination of allyl alcohol to glycerol di-bromine-hydrine followed by reaction with sodium hydrosulfide under pressure. It can also be prepared by hydrogenizing hydroxide propylene trisulfide .

Aluminum chemicals

2012-02-01T11:26:00.000+05:30

Aluminium or aluminum (American English) is a silvery white member of the boron group of chemical elements. It has the symbol Al, and its atomic number is 13. It is not soluble in water under normal circumstances. Aluminium is the third most abundant element (after oxygen and silicon), and the most abundant metal, in the Earth's crust. It makes up about 8% by weight of the Earth's solid surface. Aluminium metal is too reactive chemically to occur natively. Today, aluminum and aluminum alloys are used in a wide variety of products: cans, foils and kitchen utensils, as well as parts of airplanes, rockets and other items that require a strong, light material.

Pre-feasibility: Mukhtar Dairy Farm Call +92 (0) 300 8402812 April 18 20...

2012-01-31T11:53:00.001+05:30

Make Sodium Acetate "Hot Ice" with vinegar and baking soda (pt1)

2012-01-31T11:36:00.000+05:30

Surgical Spirit

2012-01-30T10:52:00.001+05:30

Surgical Spirit is a clear, colourless liquid with a distinctive odour and is prepared from a special Denatured Alcohol solution. It is sometimes referred to as 'Rubbing Alcohol'.

Surgical Spirit is widely used as a topical preparation for cooling, soothing or hardening the skin in a wide variety of applications such as in hospitals, in the welding industry, by some musicians and by those who enjoy hill walking.

Surgical Spirit is used for its antiseptic properties in cleaning and disinfecting surfaces and in treating minor cuts and abrasions.

Surgical Spirit is used by surgeons to cleanse their hands and instruments before surgery.

Silver Acetate

2012-01-30T10:44:00.001+05:30

Silver acetate (AgC 2 H 3 O 2 ) is a photosensitive, white crystalline substance commonly used as a pesticide. It also produces a repulsive taste when combined with cigarette smoke, so it is used in chewing gum and lozenges to aid the cessation of smoking.

In industry, silver acetate has been used in the preparation of highly reflective, conductive silvered polymer films.

Silver Acetate is also could be used to catalyze cycloaddition reactions of isocyanatoacetates.

In the health field, silver acetate-containing products have been used in such products as gum, spray, and lozenges to deter smokers from smoking.

Mortar

2012-01-30T10:41:00.001+05:30

Mortar is a workable paste used to bind construction blocks together and fill the gaps between them. The blocks may be stone, brick, cinder blocks, etc.

Portland cement mortar (is very often known simply as cement mortar) and is created by mixing Ordinary Portland cement (OPC), hydrated lime, and aggregate (or sand) with water.

The use of mortars in bulk silos (granel) offers many advantages for the contractors in terms of logistics and efficiency increase. There is a lot of potential throughout the world especially in urban agglomerations.

Bromoacetic Acid

2012-01-30T10:37:00.002+05:30

Bromoacetic acid is the chemical compound with the formula CH2BrCO2H. This colorless solid is a relatively strong alkylating agent.

Bromoacetic acid and its esters are widely used building blocks in organic synthesis, for example in pharmaceutical chemistry.

Monobromoacetic acid has been used in commercial letterpress printing, in the production of plastics and in medical and surgical hospitals.

Alcohol Sorghum

2012-01-30T10:34:00.001+05:30

Sweet sorghum is rich in stalk sucrose & sugars which resemble exactly sugarcane for its juicy stalk as has an advantage over sugarcane for alcohol production. The sugarcane stalks has a great potential to produce alcohol.

Worldwide the brewing industry is becoming more competitive and constantly looking for ways to improve beer quality and reduce manufacturing costs. Sweet sorghum is a new potential substitute for barley which can be used as an alternate substrate and also raise economic benefits.

Sweet sorghum alcohol production was estimated to generate 70 kWh of electricity per ton of bagasse, based on the electricity production from sugarcane bagasse.

Business Line : Industry & Economy / Economy : Anti-dumping duty on morpholine from EU, China, US

2012-01-28T16:00:00.000+05:30

Business Line : Industry & Economy / Economy : Anti-dumping duty on morpholine from EU, China, US
why is the dumping taking place?
Do we have enough production capacity in India??
Find out here

President Obama Gives Naif Al-Mutawa and THE 99 A Shout Out

2012-01-27T20:45:00.000+05:30

Copper Acetate

2012-01-26T15:58:00.000+05:30

Copper(II) acetate, also referred to as cupric acetate, is the chemical compound with the formula Cu(OAc)2 where OAc- is acetate (CH3CO2-). The hydrated derivative, which contains one molecule of water for each Cu atom, is available commercially. Anhydrous Cu(OAc)2 is a dark green crystalline solid, whereas Cu(OAc)2(H2O)2 is more bluish-green. Since ancient times, copper acetates of some form have been used as fungicides and green pigments. Today, copper acetates are used as reagents for the synthesis of various inorganic and organic compounds. Copper acetate, like all copper compounds, emits a blue-green glow in a flame. Copper(II) acetate was historically prepared in vineyards, since acetic acid is a byproduct of fermentation. Copper sheets were alternately layered with fermented grape skins and dregs left over from wine production and exposed to air. This would leave a blue substance on the outside of the sheet.

Sodium lignosulphonate

2012-01-24T11:38:00.002+05:30

Sodium lignosulfonate (lignosulfonic acid, sodium salt) is used in the food industry as a de-foaming agent for paper production and in adhesives for items that come in contact with food. It has antimicrobial and preservative properties, and is used as an ingredient in animal feeds.
It is also used for construction, ceramics, mineral powder, chemical industry, textile industry (leather), metallurgical industry, petroleum industry, fire-retardant materials, rubber vulcanization, organic polymerization.
Sodium lignosulfonate was prepared from stripped sulphite waste liquor obtained from the Rhinelander Paper Company, Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Twelve L of this liquor were filtered and then saturated with sodium chloride.

Algae Farming in the USA - 7 days away - Limited Seating

2012-01-23T20:25:00.001+05:30

Spirulina Cultivation
Interest may attend ...
For additional
information, please contact:National Algae Association4747 Research
Forest Dr., Suite 180The Woodlands, Texas 77381936.321.1125
info@nationalalgaeassociation.com

Palladium Acetate

2012-01-20T16:38:00.000+05:30

Palladium(II) acetate is a chemical compound of palladium described by the formula Pd(O2CCH3)2 or Pd(OAc)2. It is considered more reactive than the analogous platinum compound. It is soluble in many organic solvents.
Palladium has a rich organometallic chemistry which has developed over the past twenty-five years. While palladium is not unique in its ability to carry out a wide range of carbon-carbon bond forming reactions, its ver- satility has resulted in an increasing effort being made towards the use of palladium reagents in organic synthesis in academic and industrial research laboratories.Widely used procedures such as the Heck, Suzuki and Sonogashira cross-coupling reactions and Buckwald-Hartwig aminations most commonly employ a palladium-based catalyst.

Swimming Pool

2012-01-20T16:36:00.000+05:30

Swimming Pool or Pool means an artificial basin, chamber or tank used, or intended to be used, for public swimming, diving, or recreative bathing, but does not include baths where the main purpose is the cleaning of the body, nor individual therapeutic tub.
Swimming pools provide a great way to exercise and beat the summer heat. Building and maintaining a pool, however, also means relatively high costs added to your household’s budget.

Methanol to Gasoline

2012-01-19T16:58:00.001+05:30

The mobile MTG (Methanol to Gasoline) process converts methanol to high octane unleaded Gasoline using a zeolite catalyst.
The process, which would be the first commercial production in the world, would supply one-third of the domestic gasoline demand 22% of its total fuel requirements in 1986, when the plant was in full operation.
The Mobil MTG process was said to be able to able to produce a barrel of synthetic gasoline for US 23 dollar.

FIIs bet on auto, pharma; shun banking & metals

2012-01-16T08:50:00.000+05:30

FIIs bet on auto, pharma; shun banking & metals

Good to know sectors to invest in

And which to keep off

Hallmarked gold: Buyers to face 'delays'

2012-01-14T11:10:00.000+05:30

Hallmarked gold: Buyers to face 'delays'

Not much awareness among people....hall marking centres have good scope?

Trifluoroacetic Acid

2012-01-13T16:04:00.000+05:30

Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) is the simplest stable perfluorinated carboxylic acid chemical compound, with the formula CF3CO2H. It is a strong carboxylic acid due to the influence of the electronegative trifluoromethyl group. TFA is almost 100,000-fold more acidic than acetic acid. TFA is widely used in organic chemistry.

TFA occurs naturally in sea water, but only in small concentrations (<200 ng/L). Therefore, TFA is prepared industrially by the electrofluorination of acetyl chloride and acetic anhydride, followed by hydrolysis of the resulting trifluoroacetyl fluoride.

Phosgene

2012-01-12T14:36:00.002+05:30

Phosgene is the chemical compound with the formula COCl2. This colorless gas gained infamy as a chemical weapon during World War I. It is also a valued industrial reagent and building block in synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other organic compounds. In low concentrations, its odor resembles freshly cut hay or grass.
The primary use of phosgene is in the production of toluene diisocyanate (TDI), a precursor of the polyurethane resins used to make foams, elastomers, and coatings. A rapidly growing use of phosgene is in the manufacture of polymethylene polyphenylisocyanate (PMPPI), which is used in the production of rigid polyurethane foams.

Diphenyl-carbonate

2012-01-11T16:53:00.001+05:30

Diphenyl carbonate (DPC)is an organic chemical compound. It is both as a monomer in combination with bisphenol A in the production of polycarbonate polymers and a product of the decomposition of polycarbonates.
DPC is produced in two steps: phenol and DMC react to form phenylmethyl carbonate (PMC), followed by PMC disproportionation to DPC.
High purity Diphenyl carbonate can be synthesized via the transesterification of DMC and phenol.

Falling rupee forces auto parts firms to rethink local shop floor

2012-01-09T00:58:00.000+05:30

Falling rupee forces auto parts firms to rethink local shop floor

Blessing in disguise?

Which auto parts.....more information

'Gold may touch $2K an ounce in 2012'

2012-01-09T00:55:00.001+05:30

'Gold may touch $2K an ounce in 2012'

Scope for trading, refining, scrap recovery....very good and attractive

See www.primaryinfo.com

Lithopone

2012-01-07T15:08:00.001+05:30

Lithophone is a white pigment consisting of a mixture of barium sulfate and zinc sulfide. It is used in interior paints and in some enamels. It is widely used for white paint.
It was manufactured by Krebs Pigments and Chemical Company and other companies.The material came in different "seals", which vary in percent of zinc sulfide. Gold seal and Bronze seals contain 40-50% zinc sulfide, offering more hiding power and strength.
It is produced by precipitation through filtering, heating and quenching works. Lithopone has mostly been replaced by titanium dioxide which is more durable, but it is much cheaper. It is used as a base for lake pigment and used as a inert pigment for paint, ink and cosmetics as well as in a large range of applications in plastic industry. It is used as a filler in paper, leather, and linoleum.

Solvent Extraction

2012-01-07T14:43:00.000+05:30

Solvent extraction (also known as chemical extraction) is a cleanup method that uses solvents to extract or remove harmful chemicals from polluted materials.

The greatest contribution in achievements of solvent extraction provided extractants based on hydroxyoximes. As they were synthesized there were no better copper extractants, and since then all investigations were performed in order to improve their properties.

With the recently developed technologies that are now under investigations in demonstration plants and ongoing research into improved technologies, we can safely predict that solvent extraction will eventually contribute to an increasing fraction of the copper produced each year not only from oxide but also from sulphide ores.

Renewable Energy Certificate

2012-01-07T14:37:00.000+05:30

A REC represents the property rights to the environmental, social, and other nonpower qualities of renewable electricity generation.

RECs are known under functionally equivalent names such as Green Tags or Tradable Renewable Certificates (TRCs), depending on the market. The U.S. currently does not have a national registry of RECs issued.

In India there are several options for pricing renewable electricity such as using Market determined prices, linking prices to Unscheduled Interchange (UI) prices, setting the tariff for electricity generated from renewable resources as average power purchase price of the distribution licensee or fixing normative or feed-in tariff for particular renewable technology.

Greener Solvents

2012-01-07T14:31:00.000+05:30

Green chemistry is a chemical philosophy encouraging the design of products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances.
There is growing interest in developing more environmentally acceptable processes in chemical or biotechnological industries. This trend towards what has become known as sustainable technologies can be defined as green chemistry and white biotechnology, when the emphasis is focussed on chemical or biotechnological processes, respectively

Gas Appliances

2012-01-07T14:28:00.001+05:30

Gas appliances is a requirement of every household, therefore the demand for these appliances is likely to increase in the local as well as the foreign market. Furthermore, only a small proportion of the market share is taken up by imported appliances, which reinforces the fact that local products have a higher demand in the domestic market.
Total global trade in terms of imports of gas appliances was $6.394 billion in 2009. USA is the largest importing country with a share of 30.2% and a total value of $1.931 billion. USA is a rapidly growing market with high annual growth rate. Germany is the second largest importer in this category with imports of $529.590 million. France is the third largest importer with total imports of $496.905 million.

Surfactants

2012-01-05T15:37:00.000+05:30

Surfactants are compounds that lower the surface tension of a liquid, the interfacial tension between two liquids, or that between a liquid and a solid. Surfactants may act as detergents, wetting agents, emulsifiers, foaming agents, and dispersants.

Surfactants are usually organic compounds that are amphiphilic, meaning they contain both hydrophobic groups (their tails) and hydrophilic groups (their heads). Therefore, a surfactant molecule contains both a water insoluble (or oil soluble) component and a water soluble component. Surfactant molecules will diffuse in water and adsorb at interfaces between air and water or at the interface between oil and water, in the case where water is mixed with oil.

Synthetic Cells

2012-01-05T12:36:00.002+05:30

The creation of the synthetic cell is part of an effort to design a "minimal cell" containing only the most basic genome required for life.

Biology, an emerging engineering discipline to program cell behaviors as easily as we program computers. Synthetic biology will improve our quantitative understanding of natural biological processes and will also have biotechnology applications in areas such as biosensing, synthesis of pharmaceutical products, molecular fabrication of biomaterials and nanostructures, and tissue engineering.

The ability to make artificial cells is a scientific milestone of immense proportions. Achieving it would mark a profound understanding of the biochemical systems that embody life, and it would also provide a fast track toward a series of fundamental scientific insights.

Starch Hydrolysates

2012-01-05T12:33:00.002+05:30

Hydrogenated starch hydrosylate (HSH) is a mixture of several sugar alcohols (a type of sugar substitute).

Hydrogenated starch hydrolysates are produced by the partial hydrolysis of starch – most often corn starch but also potato starch or wheat starch. This creates dextrins (glucose and short glucose chains). The hydrolyzed starch (dextrin) then undergoes hydrogenation to convert the dextrins to sugar alcohols.

Hydrogenated Starch Hydrolysates are being used by the food industry for many years, especially in confectionery products. With time, they have become important food ingredients because of their sweetness, low cariogenic potential, and useful functional properties.

Alcohol Sorghum

2012-01-04T16:58:00.001+05:30

Sweet sorghum is rich in stalk sucrose & sugars which resemble exactly sugarcane for its juicy stalk as has an advantage over sugarcane for alcohol production. The sugarcane stalks has a great potential to produce alcohol.

Worldwide the brewing industry is becoming more competitive and constantly looking for ways to improve beer quality and reduce manufacturing costs. Sweet sorghum is a new potential substitute for barley which can be used as an alternate substrate and also raise economic benefits.

India is the second largest producer of sorghum in the world.

Experts in the opinion that the average cost of ethanol production from sweet sorghum is around Rs. 13.25 per liter which makes it a most feasible raw material for production of ethanol in an entire year as minimum two crops could be taken in one year.

2011: Growth casualty of RBI's fight to tame inflation

2011-12-31T20:54:00.000+05:30

2011: Growth casualty of RBI's fight to tame inflation

How difficult the days are...!

Dollar funding grows scarce for India Inc

2011-12-30T19:00:00.000+05:30

Dollar funding grows scarce for India Inc

Investment problem is looming large for companies

Worldwide.....more so for Indian companies

CHBC News Water from Air Element Four Kelowna

2011-12-29T21:33:00.000+05:30

The Air to Water Technology started out about eight years ago and initial applications included household and office use. The applications scope has been expanded to meet water supply requirement for rural communities, oil & gas offshore and remote drilling sites, remote military camp sites and remote construction sites.

Economies of scale, easy transfer of available technologies from air to air heat pumps and boiler systems, shorter decision and sales routes and other reasons have put the market focus for air to water heat pumps for residential heating towards solutions for individual single family houses.

Health Club

2011-12-29T16:13:00.000+05:30

A health club (also known as a fitness club, fitness center, and commonly referred to as a gym) is a place which houses exercise equipment for the purpose of physical exercise.
Health clubs are often located near large employers. They usually draw a crowd of people before plant or business normal working hours, during lunch breaks, and after closing.
Health clubs provide marketers with a unique venue to reach millions of active, on-the-go consumers. Club members tend to be affluent and are willing to spend more for premium and/or healthful products.

Nursing School

2011-12-29T16:11:00.000+05:30

A nursing school is a type of educational institution, or part thereof, providing education and training to become a fully qualified nurse. The nature of nursing education and nursing qualifications varies considerably across the world.
Nursing is the art and science of caring, healing, treating, curing and educating patients of all ages in diverse health care environments.

Platform chemicals

2011-12-29T15:43:00.000+05:30

The platform chemicals concept is to establish routes from biomass to new and existing petrochemical products.
These are the basic building blocks for the basic petrochemical industry, which produces a wide variety of commodity chemicals. These commodity or bulk chemicals, in turn, are used for an even wider array of fine chemicals and polymers.
There are two main ways to produce equivalent platform chemicals to those from fossil derived sources: Arriving to the same chemical structure or finding a chemical that can perform the same duties.
Advances in biotechnology are enabling the optimization of feedstock composition and agronomic characteristics and the development of new and improved fermentation organisms for conversion of biomass to new end products or intermediates.
The hydrogen and carbon containing platform chemicals are either used as solvents (e.g. benzene, toluene), as starting material for polymers (e.g. ethylene, propylene, butadiene) or are further functionalised with elements such as oxygen, nitrogen or chlorine.
The production of chemicals from biomass presents higher mass and carbon theoretical efficiency, and it seems an interesting alternative to provide a renewable path for globally and widely demanded platform chemicals like phenols, solvents (Acetone), soft plastic precursor (Polyethylene) and hard plastic precursor (Polypropylene).

Driving school

2011-12-29T15:40:00.001+05:30

A “driving school” is a business which, for compensation, conducts or offers to conduct instruction in the operation of motor vehicles.
A driving school owner which is any person licensed by the department to engage in the business of giving instruction for compensation in the driving of motor vehicles or in the preparation of an applicant for examination for a driver’s license issued by the department.
An independent driving instructor is licensed to teach driving instruction in a city with a population of less than 50,000, which does not have within it an established licensed driving school.
The city must be located in a county with a population of less than 400,000; and the instructor must be employed as an accredited teacher of automobile driver education or automobile driver training under the provisions of the Education Code.
“School for training drivers” means a business conducted by a natural person, association, partnership, corporation or other business entity, for the education of students, in a classroom or motor vehicle, or both, in preparation for the examination for a driver’s license or learner’s permit required by the department to operate a motor vehicle.

World Stone Fairs - STONA 2012 - Bangalore, Karnataka, India. 2012-02-01 to 2012-02-04

2011-12-27T10:47:00.001+05:30

Stona - 2012 Bangalore

Mass Producing Hot Dogs in a Factory

2011-12-26T16:56:00.000+05:30

Developing Food Processing Industry

2011-12-26T16:49:00.000+05:30

Food cluster

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What is Business Intelligence?

2011-12-26T12:27:00.000+05:30

Big problems for MSMEs in 2011

2011-12-26T11:50:00.000+05:30

Big problems for MSMEs in 2011

There are always too many problems.....?

But then entrepreneurs are capable of surviving too....!

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/pick-the-right-car/891611/2

2011-12-24T15:13:00.000+05:30

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/pick-the-right-car/891611/2

Before that decide whether you really need to own one or hiring cars via street corner travel companies is better?

Roads are bad...drivers...good ones are simply not there to employ..!

Think hard before you choose..?

Medical Store

2011-12-23T16:15:00.000+05:30

A medical store can be started as a sole proprietorship or a partnership and even it can be registered under company law with Securities and Exchange Commission of the country.

The Medical Store Depots were originally established in different parts of the country under the Medical Stores Organization primarily to meet the needs of army units in respect of medicines, surgical equipments and other medical supplies.

The pharma market is growing at 27% annually. Reports peg the market at Rs 33,000 crore (US$ 5 bn). Revenue from pharmacies is expected to touch Rs 50,000 crore by 2010.

The drugstores industry, part of the larger food and staples retailing industry, is a high-volume, low-margin business, with cutthroat competition.

Ferry Service

2011-12-23T16:13:00.001+05:30

A ferry (or ferryboat) is a form of transportation, usually a boat, but sometimes a ship, used to carry (or ferry) primarily passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water.

Ferry designs depend on the length of the route, the passenger or vehicle capacity required, speed requirements and the water conditions.

Water based transport is effective as generally speaking, operating costs of fuel are low and environmental pollution is lower than for corresponding volumes of movement by road, rail or air.

Money is the highest barrier to entry of the ferry business. Historically, government grant programs, such as the $60 million allotted as part of the 2009 Economic Recovery Act, have gone to buy new ferryboats or improve existing ferry terminals.

Interstate Power Trade

2011-12-22T15:00:00.000+05:30

Power trading inherently means a transaction where the price of power is negotiable and options exist about whom to trade with and for what quantum.
Power trading in India is in infant stage and has high potential for growth. Provision of Open Access was a step towards commercialization of power market with high growth potential.
In India, Inter – regional power transfer capacity, according to the statistics, stands at 9000 MW. A perspective transmission plan has been evolved to install an integrated and resilient Nation Power Grid in a phased manner by the year 2012 thereby augmenting the Inter- regional transfer capacity from the current level of 9000 MW to 30000 MW.

Hydrotherapy centre

2011-12-21T15:17:00.000+05:30

Hydrotherapy & Rehabilitation Pools with unique counter current mechanism are a valuable and economical system for healing and rehabilitation treatments recognized to possess various benefits in modern medical texts.
Hydrotherapy & Rehab pools are safe and hygienic method of conveniently providing hydrotherpay in Homes, Clinics, Hospitals & Physiotherapy Centres.

Hydrotheray

2011-12-21T15:08:00.000+05:30

Sparkle 2011 brings Rs 100-cr business

2011-12-20T11:31:00.000+05:30

Sparkle 2011 brings Rs 100-cr business

Tribute to the enterprise of Gujarat....

All you wanted to know about Mushroom

2011-12-19T13:28:00.000+05:30

More project information here

Export marketing for SME

2011-12-19T10:55:00.000+05:30

Export marketing

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Tidal Energy

2011-12-16T15:27:00.001+05:30

Tidal power, also called tidal energy, is a form of hydropower that converts the energy of tides into useful forms of power - mainly electricity.
The world's first large-scale tidal power plant (the Rance Tidal Power Station) became operational in 1966.
Tidal power is extracted from the Earth's oceanic tides; tidal forces are periodic variations in gravitational attraction exerted by celestial bodies. These forces create corresponding motions or currents in the world's oceans.

Hypogen

2011-12-16T11:40:00.002+05:30

The concept of a HYPOGEN (HYdrogen and POwer GENeration) Facility for producing hydrogen and electricity, using fossil fuels as feedstock, with the simultaneous capture and storage of the carbon dioxide produced during the process.
HYPOGEN plants will have to be able to meet the greenhouse gas emission constraints.
The evolution of hydrogen markets can only be projected and modelled as a high risk stream of income for HYPOGEN.

Ropeway

2011-12-14T14:12:00.001+05:30

A ropeway is a form of naval lifting device used to transport light stores and equipment across rivers or ravines.

Ropeways are used for the transport of goods or passengers, whereby the passengers or goods are conveyed or drawn in cars by means of a towing device.

Aerial ropeway development may have a wide range of impact on the environment through activities like construction work, reclamation, excavation and other related activities.

Gravity ropeway is an inexpensive and simple means of transportation. It operates simply by gravitational force without the use of external power.

Ropeways offer business opportunities not only as tourist attractions in hill stations, but also as cheaper means of urban transportation, capable of decongesting over-choked cities.

Ropeway standards are reviewed every five years to ensure that they reflect the state of the art, and they are updated as required.

Aluminum Oxide Windrow Dewatering to Recycle the Nickel, Cob...

2011-12-14T08:51:00.001+05:30

Dried Mango

2011-12-13T16:47:00.000+05:30

Dried mango is an important value added product; made by dehydrating mango slices or mango pulp.

Dried mango is made by cutting mango slices and drying those in solar and/or fuel fired dehydrators. Another variation of the product is called mango leather which is made by making mango pulp and drying the pulp.

Flue Gas Desulfurization

2011-12-13T16:16:00.002+05:30

Flue Gas Desulphurization is widely acknowledged as today’s state-of-the art technology for removing sulfur dioxide from the exhaust flue gas in coal- and oil-fired power plants.
Although the FGD process was originally established for environmental purposes, a large amount of high quality, synthetic gypsum is created as a byproduct of the scrubbing process.
Wet flue gas desulfurization or scrubber systems are an excellent way of reducing the sulfur dioxide emissions caused by coal combustion boilers.
Conventional wet FGD systems are in successful operation at a large number of coal-fired facilities ranging in size from small, individual applications to large utility applications of more than 1000 MW.

Jute-Bags

2011-12-13T14:15:00.001+05:30

JUTE Bags are eco-friendly. 100% bio-degradable. Jute is a fast growing crop with a much higher carbon dioxide assimilation rate than trees.

Jute production creates much needed employment in poorer regions of the world.

Jute bags are strong, trendy and reusable.The best polymer for use as a liner for jute bags, is polypropylene of 100µm thickness at the most.

Jackfruit-Seed

2011-12-13T14:13:00.001+05:30

The seed is 3/4 to 1 1/2 in (2-4 cm) long and 1/2 to 3/4 in (1.25-2 cm) thick and is white and crisp within. There may be 100 or up to 500 seeds in a single fruit.Fresh seeds are considered to be high in starch, low in calcium and iron; good sources of vitamins B1 and B2.

The ripe fruits and seeds of jackfruit are bestowed with certain chemical and aphrodisiac properties (Ferrao, 1999), which are important from health point of view. In addition, its pulp and seeds are being used for cooling, tonic and pectorial purposes in various traditional medicines

Jackfruit seed is used in biscuit factories of Tamil Nadu and is of high demand there. We have made various bakery products using jack seed flour, including cookies and murukku.

Amino Acid

2011-12-13T14:05:00.001+05:30

Amino acids are molecules containing an amine group, a carboxylic acid group and a side-chain that varies between different amino acids.

The key elements of an amino acid are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. They are particularly important in biochemistry, where the term usually refers to alpha-amino acids.

Amino acids are critical to life, and have many functions in metabolism. One particularly important function is to serve as the building blocks of proteins, which are linear chains of amino acids. Amino acids can be linked together in varying sequences to form a vast variety of proteins.

Twenty-two amino acids are naturally incorporated into polypeptides and are called proteinogenic or standard amino acids. Of these, 20 are encoded by the universal genetic code. Nine standard amino acids are called "essential" for humans because they cannot be created from other compounds by the human body, and so must be taken in as food.

Perfluoromethyl-Vinyl-Ether

2011-12-13T14:00:00.002+05:30

Perfluoro(methyl vinyl ether) is a widely known monomer used in the industrial scale, particularly, in the production of fluorine containing rubbers. The known values of copolymerization constants of perfluoro(methyl vinyl ether) (?1) with tetrafluoroethylene2 (?2) are r1 = k11/k12 = 0.22 and r2 = k22/k21 = 1.42 (index 2 concerns tetrafluoroethylene).

Perfluoromethyl vinyl ether as the special fluoric monomer has wide applications in the development of new-style fluoro plastics and fluoro rubber with excellent integrative properties.

There are five main types of FKMs, determined by the types of monomers used to produce the fluoroelastomer. These include Vinylidene Fluoride (VF2), Hexafluoropropylene (HFP), Tetrafluoroethylene (TFE), Perfluoromethylvinylether (PMVE).

Titanium-Oxychloride

2011-12-13T13:58:00.001+05:30

Titanium oxychloride is formed in a reaction between titanium chloride (TiCl4) and water.

The mixture of tartaric acid and TiOCl2 solution forms a gel on heating on a water bath which decomposes at higher temperatures, > 423 K.

Mesoporous titania with an average pore diameter of 2.6 nm and pure rutile crystalline structural wall were prepared by hydrolysis of TiOCl2 aqueous solution at lower temperature by using octyl phenol polyethylene oxide as template-directing agent.

Yellow cakes of TiO(OH)2 were dissolved with added HCl solution to form a TiOCl2 solution.

The concentration of titanium in the as- preparedTiOCl2 solutionwas 5.27M, and this was used as a stock solution for synthesis of TiO2.

2-propylheptanol

2011-12-13T13:37:00.000+05:30

Propylheptanol is a mixture of isomeric decyl alcohols: 2-propylheptanol, 4-methyl-2-propylhexanol and 5-methyl-2-propylhexanol.

It is a clear and colorless, high boiling liquid with a mild characteristic odor. It is miscible with most common organic solvents but has very low water solubility

2-Propylheptyl alcohol is "oxoalcohol", meaning that it is produced from the hydroformylation ("oxo synthesis") of C9 alkenes followed by hydrogenation of the resulting aldehyde. The production route is similar to that for tripropylene.

Synonyms are 2-Propylheptanol, 2-Propylheptan-1-ol, 1-Heptanol, 2-propyl-, 2-PROPYL-1-HEPTANOL, 2-Propylheptyl alcohol.

Thioester-Antioxidant

2011-12-13T13:32:00.000+05:30

Antioxidant is a substance added in small quantities to hydrocarbons which are susceptible to oxidation, such as rubbers, plastics, foods, and oils to inhibit or slow oxidative processes, while being itself oxidized.

There are two basic types of antioxidants: primary and secondary . Primary antioxidants are defined as additives that intercept and stabilize free radicals by donating an active hydrogen atom, gaining their name “radical scavengers”. Secondary antioxidants prevent the further formation of free radicals by decomposing unstable hydroperoxides prior to their homolytic cleavage.

Secondary antioxidants perform better with the incorporation of a primary antioxidant. However, not every type of primary antioxidant can be incorporated with any type of secondary antioxidant.

Antioxidants are employed to retard the degradation of polymers due to air oxidation. Free radicals are initiated by reactions within the polymer brought-on by heat, ultraviolet radiation, mechanical shear or metallic impurities

DLTDP, DTTDP and DSTDP are all produced by reacting the same intermediate, thiodipropionitrile (TDPN), with different fatty alcohols. DLTDP uses lauryl alcohol, DTTDP uses iso-tridecyl alcohol and DSTDP uses stearyl alcohol.

Diethyl-Phenyl-Acetamide

2011-12-13T13:31:00.000+05:30

Diethyl Ethyl Acetamide is a multi-insect repellent. It is effective against mosquitoes, leaches and other blood sucking organisms. It is found to be much more superior and effective as compared to the commonly used mosquito repellents like Di-methyl phthalate.

DEPA can be used in the form of cream or as a spray, liquid or aerosol.

A non-toxic, non-irritant, cosmetically acceptable, cost effective indigenously available multi-insect repellent N,N- dimethylphenyl acetamide (DEPA) has been developed and licensed by Drug Controller of India for manufacture for use on human beings and has since been introduced in services.

Defence Services have already accepted DEPA as their mosquito repellent. Other para military organisations are in the process of taking this product.

Two-tone Color Stripe Jute Bags

2011-12-13T13:00:00.000+05:30

How Cell Phone Recycling Works

2011-12-13T12:47:00.001+05:30

Project Information here

Cellphone Recycling

2011-12-12T16:40:00.001+05:30

A cell phone is made up of many materials. In general, the handset consists of 40 percentmetals, 40 percent plastics, and 20 percentceramics and trace materials.

Mobile phones are relatively inexpensive, and smaller every day. However, it is plastic it takes thousands of years to degrade, and toxic metals such as arsenic, antimony, Beryllium, cadmium,

copper, lead, nickel and zinc, that accumulate in living organisms and can cause cancer and neurological diseases.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that 130 million cell phones are discarded each year. When dismantled, their internal metal components translate into 65,000 tons of waste containing lead, cadmium, arsenic, beryllium, mercury and other toxic heavy metals and carcinogens.

The facts are that 280 tonnes of mobile phones, batteries and accessories have been collected for recycling by the industry, saving the environment from potential damage. This equates to 1.1 million batteries and 435,000 handsets having been collected.

Express Avenue Chennai - Festival Mode

2011-12-12T00:00:00.001+05:30

Rigid govt still 'tough' for India Inc: survey

2011-12-08T22:16:00.000+05:30

Rigid govt still 'tough' for India Inc: survey

The view is shared by every one including SME Sector

2011-12-08T19:26:00.000+05:30

Poor loan growth, rise in NPAs hit banking sector's Q2 nos

2011-12-05T21:53:00.000+05:30

FTN: Is India's power shortage reaching crisis point?

2011-12-05T21:49:00.000+05:30

Chemistry Tutorial 13.3b: Organic Families: Carboxyl Group (Organic Aci...

2011-12-05T21:43:00.001+05:30

Data base on Organic Acid

Organic acids

2011-12-05T11:11:00.000+05:30

An organic acid is an organic compound with acidic properties.
The most common Organic acids are the carboxylic acids, whose acidity is associated with their carboxyl group –COOH. Sulfonic acids, containing the group –SO2OH, are relatively stronger acids.
The relative stability of the conjugate base of the acid determines its acidity.
Other groups can also confer acidity, usually weakly: –OH, –SH, the enol group, and the phenol group.
In biological systems, organic compounds containing these groups are generally referred to as Organic acids.
Simple Organic acids like formic or acetic acids are used for oil and gas well stimulation treatments. These Organic acids are much less reactive with metals than are strong mineral acids like hydrochloric acid (HCl) or mixtures of HCl and hydrofluoric acid (HF).

Power less!

2011-12-04T20:55:00.000+05:30

MSEs (Micro and Small Enterprises) are the most powerless lot in the Industrial scenario today.

They have no bargaining power with the Bankers for getting finance.
They have no bargaining power to get better rates and better deal with the suppliers
They have no bargaining power with their customers particularly with the Big Brothers.
They have no POWER ( I mean the electric Power)

To-day every Micro and Small Units are under going a severe power cut. On an average they are suffering for more than 7-8 hours a day. That means they work only 3-4 hours per day if it is a single shift unit. If it is working for 2 shifts then they may have 8 hours production. That means only 50% capacity utilization.

Whereas they have to pay the Rent for the building - 100%

They have to pay the Wages to their Workers - 100%

They have to pay the interest to the Bankers - 100%

They have to keep the delivery schedule and deliver the ordered goods - 100%

How is it possible? Does our Politicians and Officials hear the frantic cry of this neglected people? Is there any one to rescue this poor lot!

we welcome Gnanasambandan, known to friends as KRG. Industrialist, Consultant and Trainer. Manufacturing Siddha Medicines and also running a Training Organisation by name AATHMA

2011-12-04T08:57:00.003+05:30

Glad that KRG is member of the group for SMELINK - Small Enterprises
We like to hear his views on SME Develoment issues
Contact Information
KR. Gnanasambandan (KRG)
Vice President - TANSTIA
CEO & Consultant Trainer,
An Academy for Training in HR, Marketing and Administration, (AATHMA)
"Malligai", 74, Paramuthevar Nagar, Narayanapuram West,
MADURAI-625014
INDIA. Ph: 91 452 2680999Chennai Office:
Flat No"6, Ranjit Apartments, 14/82, I Avenue, Indira Nagar,
Adayar, CHENNAI - 600 020.
http://www.aathma.weebly.com/
http://krg-meenakshimaindhan.blogspot.com/
Mobile: 91 94437 11495 / 91 93600 11495
Alternate E-Mail: ramakrg@hotmail.com

[OSTRICH FEATHERS] We are interested in buying ostrich feathers

2011-12-04T08:50:00.000+05:30

Here is an established ostrich farmer in Spain who wants to buy ostrich products
His name is David Irisaari and emailid:zuiko3000@gmail.com

MSE's call for Fair Play

2011-12-03T16:39:00.000+05:30

Right from the Prime Minister, FM, MSME minister, CMs and every officer in this country will pay floral tributes to Micro and Small Industries and their contribution to the Economy. But, when it comes to serving these Micro and Small enterprises, every one is doing only a lip service particularly in offering credit and other finance related services.
When a leading air line company is not able to pay back it debts amounting to several thousand crores SBI the lead bank comes forward to convert it into Equity. Whereas a small Micro unit having borrowed a few lakh rupees is not able to repay it and asking for the reschedule, the banks apply SARFAESI and take over the little assets and auction it. They are not even prepared to listen the grievances of the Entrepreneur.

Every banker is saying that Entrepreneur themselves are not interested in availing loan under CGTMSE stating that they need to pay 1% more as Insurance premium and they are ready to offer collateral security. But, unfortunately, these bankers do not educate the Entrepreneur that they have to shell out thousands of rupees as fees to the Engineer and Advocate for getting the valuation certificates, Legal opinion and over and above that they have to pay 0.5% as Stamp duty for registering the deposit of title deeds with the bank and registration charges and other expenses at the Registrar office.

Regarding rate of interest, any amount of our representation to the authorities did not yield any response. Cost of Finance is one of the major input for a MSE. Let us hope at least our recommendation for interest subsidy is granted by the Tamilnadu Government.