India’s Tata Chemicals to launch demonstration-scale sweet sorghum ethanol plant

In India, Tata Chemicals will commission its demonstration-scale 2 Mgy sweet sorghum ethanol plant in Maharashtra next month. The managing director of Tata Chemical told livemint that “We are sort of entering the business and are nowhere near national scale.”

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