Lord Eddie Lister, Boris Johnson’s special envoy to the Gulf countries visited India to secure millions of doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine being manufactured under license by India’s Serum Institute. Lister and international affairs adviser David Quarrey met India’s foreign secretary Harsh Shringla in New Delhi to “discuss bilateral relations...
Philips Expands India Manufacturing in Pune
In Chakan, near Pune in western India, the medical device unit of Philips is building out a$42 million factory. The company has been present in India for over 90 years and has had operations of various kinds in Pune, some of which it still owns. Over the long term, "We...
Philips Offers Mobile ICU Units For Covid-19 in India
Designed to meet the critical-care requirements of Covid-19 patients, the Philips pre-fabricated Intensive Care Unit (ICU) has a capacity for nine beds and is locally manufactured by Philips in India. Each ICU unit can be assembled in one day at the chosen site. Each of these portable ICUs comes equipped...
Tech from India To Power American Bio-Refinery
Pune, Maharashtra-based Praj Industries' award winning biotechnology, enfinity, will be deployed to produce ethanol and other co-products using sugarcane bagasse, or plant residue, in what will be America's first bagasse-based bio-refinery. The bio-refinery is jointly promoted by Miami, FL- based Omega Energy USA LLC, a developer of renewable energy projects,...
Aridis Pharma Enters Option Agreement with Serum Institute of India
San Jose, CA headquartered Aridis Pharmaceuticals entered into an option agreement with Serum International BV (SIBV), -- an affiliate of Pune-based Serum Institute of India, Ltd., -- the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by dose units. The deal grants SIBV the option to license multiple programs from Aridis and access its...
Airbus Signs Multi-Year Contract with India's Tech Mahindra
European corporation Airbus SE, registered in the Netherlands, announced the signing of a multi-year contract with Pune, India-based technology provider Tech Mahindra, for cabin and cargo design engineering. Karthikeyan Natarajan, global head of Engineering and IoT, Tech Mahindra, said, "This will strengthen our aerospace engineering portfolio, especially in areas such as...