Thermax to set up desalination plant for Nirma Bhavnagar soda-ash unit
Thermax's water treatment division is putting up the country's largest membrane-based seawater desalination plant at Nirma's soda ash plant coming up at Bhavnagar in Gujarat. The Rs 16-crore project is expected to be commissioned in July 1999.

Unichem Labs plans Rs 35-cr capex to fund R&D plans
The Mumbai-based Unichem Laboratories plans a capital expenditure of approximately Rs 35 crore over the next two and a half years essentially to fund its research and development (R&D) plans.

Iisco units brought under one control
The management of the former captive iron ore mines and collieries of Indian Iron & Steel Co (Iisco) has been transferred back to Iisco with effect from April 1, according to sources in the ailing subsidiary of Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL).

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