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A Record Maize Crop Will Not Make India a Hyaluronic Acid Producer. The World’s Entire Supply Fits Inside 13,000 Tonnes of Grain
Cosmetic-grade hyaluronic acid is fermented from glucose, and India has a 55.093 million tonne maize crop trading below its support pri...
Read the piece →India's Rs 3,030 Crore Chemical Parks Copy the Bulk-Drug Parks. Those Released 6% of Their Money in Six Years
BHAVYA Rasayan will pay for shared effluent, waste and steam plant in three state-run chemical parks. The design is the 2020 bulk-drug ...
Read the piece →Methionine, Not Lysine, Is India's Biggest Amino-Acid Gap. It Is Made From Petrochemicals, Not Sugar, and Glycine Is Now an Anti-Dumping Case
India’s deficit across eight amino-acid lines is $354 million, and methionine alone is 48% of it. It is made from acrolein, methyl merc...
Read the piece →India's Lysine Deficit Is $102 Million and China Holds About Three-Quarters of World Capacity. Molasses Is the Cheap Part. The Fermenter Is the Hard Part
India imports $106 million of lysine a year and its unit price fell 18.7% in FY26. Mills and distilleries have the sugar, but a lysine ...
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