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AipmA At work

Mr. Meela Jayadev – President AIPMA on the dais as a panelist for

panel discussion on “Business Opportunities of Polypropylene” at
Make in Odisha Conclave at Odisha on 13 November, 2018
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disha Government had organised a Make in Odisha Polypropylene in various fields and how its use is growing
OConclave from 11th to 15th November 2018. in medical. He also said that there should be polypro in
Wherein they had organised a Plastics, Chemicals and each district which will also create job opportunities in
Petrochemical session on 13th November 2018 and had each region. The main advantage that Odisha has over
invited our President Mr. Meela Jayadev as a Panelist to the other states was its two very good functional ports
give his views on Business Opportunities of Polypropylene at Dhamra and Paradip.
in Odisha.
Mr. Avinash Verma (Co Chairman, National Petrochemical
As we all know Orissa is one state which is highly rich in Committee, FICCI and Executive Director Petrochemicals,
natural resources, so it has the biggest mining industries IOCL) and Mr. Alok Tibrewal (President - Indian Plastic
and many big companies like Vedanta, Tata steel, Federation) were also there as Panelist.
Hindalco, JSW Steel has committed a huge investment in
Odisha. Odisha Government is currently also focusing on
investment from Plastics industry as presently it has PVC
pipes, woven sacks and household item industries in its
state. But As Indian Oil is soon starting its production
from March 2019 with PRODUCTION CAPACITY OF 7,00,000
TONNES PER ANNUM, Government is looking for huge
investment in its Paradip Poly Park for downstream units
and is giving many incentives for new units .
This Conclave had an exhibition hall wherein there were
around 112 exhibitors from all sectors. It was very well
organised Exhibition by the State Government.
The Plastics, Chemicals and Petrochemical session
was chaired by Mr. Deepak Mehta – Chairman, National
Chemical Committee - FICCI AND CMD. It was attended
by some very important personalities. Following were
the persons attended and had given their views regarding
plastic industry.
1. Mr. Nitin Jawale (Executive director - IPICOL)

2. Mr. Avinash Verma (Co- Chairman, National
Petrochemical Committee, FICCI and Executive
director Petrochemicals, IOCL)
3. Mr. Ranjit Chugh (Chief Operations Officer, Paradeep
Phosphates Ltd.)
4. Mr. Ananta Das (Hon’ble Minister Industries, Govt. of
Odisha
In the Panel Discussion Mr. Meela Jayadev had given
his beautiful views regarding business opportunities of
Polypropylene in Odisha by stating the importance of

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