Highlighting the growing significance of India as a major hub for the global leather industry, German chemical company BASF has announced the opening of a second plant in the South Asian country in as many days.

Having opened the first stage of a new technical centre in Thane near Mumbai just yesterday (see www.leatherbiz.com December 4) the chemical giant has now celebrated the inauguration of a new Eukesolar dye manufacturing plant in Mangalore, in the south of the country.

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