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Enter Lyocell, the eco-friendly fibre of the future
Cellulosic fibre from woodpulp is not new to the world. However, viscose fibre made from woodpulp involves polluting chemical processes and there are many research efforts going on to find eco-friendly, non-polluting manufacturing processes for such cellulosic fibres.
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One-stop printer shop woos customers, ignores retailers
It was a breakfast seminar for young would-be entrepreneurs organised by Syndicate Bank at Natraj Hotel in Mumbai. But no sooner had the compere intoned, "Now we will tell you how to make a project report," that a young man waved a folder, "I have one ready." Three days later, his application for Rs 25,000 had been sanctioned. That was in 1970.
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Touching base at Ranjangaon
What do Whirlpool, Matsushita and Daewoo have in common besides manufacturing washing machines and other consumer durables? Apart from slugging it out in the market the trio share the same address. All three are neighbours in Ranjangaon, the newest industrial estate, 50 km from Pune.
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TCS factory to avert millennium crisis
One of IBM's chief scientists working on the Y2K problem is on record as having said that ``the more you know, the worse it looks''. Mind you, he wasn't really complaining, simply because, the worse it looks, the more is the moolah raked in by those with solutions. But, what exactly is this much hyped Y2K problem?
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