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Extruder MSW considering Ohio Pawan Hans carrying five ONGC

expansion personnel crashes

anadian plastics extrusion company MSW Plastics Inc. Pawan Hans Helicopter carrying five senior ONGC
Cis considering whether to set up a U.S. operation A officers to Offshore from Juhu Helibase that had gone
in Vandalia, Ohio. MSW, based in Palmerston, Ontario, missing on 13 January 2018 was found crashed. Following
an extensive search operation, jointly conducted by ONGC,
Coast Guard and Indian Navy, six bodies including one of
the two Pilots of ill-fated Pawan Hans Chopper have so
far been recovered. The search is on for one more person
who is still missing. ONGC has pressed its helicopter and
speedboats for search operation as soon as the information
received by the Helibase Control Room. Currently Five
speedboats, one MSV and One chopper from ONGC have
been deployed in the area to conduct search operations.
The Coast Guard and Indian Navy are also extending all
supports to beef up the search operations by deploying
choppers and rescue boats. Bodies of ONGC Officials Mr. P
N Srinivasan, Mr. R Saravanan, Mr. Jose Antony, Mr. Pankaj
Garg and one of the pilots Capt. R Ohatkar, have been
identified. The identification process for the sixth body is
extrudes PVC into proprietary technical profiles such as still on. During the Search and Rescue (SAR) Operations
wall and ceiling panels, including panels with a corrugated on January 14, 2018 the VDR of the chopper has been
interior, for industrial, commercial, agricultural and recovered. Search operation is on for the remaining debris
residential markets. It also does custom extrusion. Ohio's of the production chopper VT – PWA.
Montgomery County Commission approved funds Dec. 18
worth $320,000 toward a $11 million investment MSW Chemours building $150 million
might make to set up North American headquarters in research site
Vandalia, said Montgomery County Commissioner Dan
Foley in a phone interview. The funds would come from
an Economic Development/Government Equity pool also he Chemours Co. has broken ground on a new
available for other company expansions in the county. Tstate-of-the-art research and innovation facility on
MSW could create 35 new jobs through its investment. the University of Delaware's Science, Technology and
Advanced Research (STAR) campus. The new Chemours
MSW is considering whether to purchase and renovate Discovery Hub at the university's Newark, Del., campus
a 61,000-square-foot building in Vandalia. The building will carry out "cutting-edge research" in the fields of
formerly was another plastics operation according to Eric process, product and application development aimed at
Collins, economic development director for the county, better meeting customer and market needs. Chemours,
"It has robust infrastructure for power and rail," Collins based in Wilmington, Del., was spun off from DuPont
said by phone. Vandalia has good highway access, being
near Interstate highways 75 and 70. Foley said plastics is
one of the county's target industries. "We have clusters
of plastics companies in the Dayton [Ohio] area. MSW
officials declined to provide more details of its proposal.
MSW's growth has garnered it a place on Canada's Profit
500 list. The 2017 award is based on MSW's five-year sales
growth of 865 percent. The Profit 500 list was published
by CanadianBusiness.com and Maclean's magazine this Co. Its holdings include the Teflon brand products and
past autumn. other materials.Completion of the 312,000-square-foot.

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