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Mr. Mukesh Malhotra, Country pendence on Chinese chemical imports Responsible Care, but none of this is
Manager & Managing Director, Syensqo by creating domestic capacities at scale. refl ected in the laws which are outdated,”
India, identifi ed capital, infrastructure he said.
and talent as the key ingredients for Mr. Vikram Singhal, President,
India to become a global manufacturing Gulbrandsen Technologies, spoke Mr. Chandrakant Nayak, Country
powerhouse. about the need for change in mindset President & CEO, Dow India, pointed
to be a player on the global stage. He out that safety and sustainability have
“Capital cost in India is consider- said though price is a key determi- become extremely crucial in export-
ably lower compared to the Western nant in global trade, companies should ing to developed countries. “If Indian
world. And sometimes even the time prioritise and understand their customer’s fi rms delay taking investment decisions
to execute is faster, simply because the requirements. on making sustainable products, we
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Mr. Maulik Mehta, CEO & Exe- country missed many opportunities in the sector does a lot of work in safety and overall global ecosystem,” he noted.
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advised that India should not look at
just being a ‘plus one’ to China but aim
at being ‘the one’. “The only way to
survive is to build world scale capacities.
We should take advantage of the huge
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said.
Mr. Namitesh Roychoudhary, Vice
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India Pvt. Ltd., advised building self-
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strategy. Mr. Vikram Singhal and Ms.Vinati Saraf Mutreja
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