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3. Sugar: 5. Chemical industries
Chemical Products Location of the
India-largest producer of both sugarcane industry Manufactured Industry
and canesugar . Chemicals Major plants
industry in
khandasari and gur or jaggery are also producing
Importance India is highly
preparedfrom sugarcane. diversified, sulphuric acid are
Sugar industry is a seasonal industry covering more located at Khetri,
Alwaye (Kerala),
becauseof the seasonality of raw materials. than 80,000 Mumbai, Kolkata,
commercial India is a strong
Burnpur and
products. It is global dye
Sugarcane is a weight-losing crop. Its Jamshedpur.
broadly supplier,
sucrosecontent begins to dry during classified into accounting for Major plants are
haulage after ithas been harvested from Basic approximately located at
Mithapur,
Location the field.Sugar factories hence, are located chemicals, 16% of the Dharangadhra
Specialty world
within thecane producing and Porbandar—
chemicals, and production of
regions.Maharastra is leading producer all in Gujarat.
Agrochemicals. dyestuff and
followed by UP and TN. India’s dye The Hindustan
Organic
proximity to intermediates.
4. Petrochemical Industries: the Middle Fertilisers, Chemicals Limited
East, the insecticides and at Rasayani
Types of raw world’s source pesticides. (Maharashtra)
Need materials it Locations of produces the
provide petrochemical chemicals
In 1960s, s feedstock, required for
drugs, dyestuffs
demandfor organic makes for and synthetic
chemicals economies of
Mumbai is the scale. rubber.
increased so fast
hub of the petro- 6. Cement
that itbecame
chemical Features of the industry
difficult to meet
industries. Cracker India is the second largest
thisdemand. At
units are producer of cement in the world.
thattime,
(i)polymers, alsolocated in India's cement industry is a vital
petroleum refining
(ii) synthetic Auraiya(UttarPrad Cement industry in part of its economy, providing
industry
fibres, esh),Jamnagar,Ga India comprises of employment to more than a
expandedrapidly.
(iii) ndhinagar and 125 large cement million people, directly or
Many items are
elastomers, Hajira(Gujarat), plants and over 300 indirectly.
derived from
(iv) surfactant Nagothane,Ratna mini cement plants The housing and real estate sector
crudepetroleum,
intermediate giri(Maharashtra), having total installed is the biggest demand driver of
which provide
Haldia capacity of 148.28 cement, accounting for about 65
rawmaterials
(WestBengal) million tonnes and per cent of the total consumption
formany new 11.10 million tonnes in India. The other major
andVishakhapatna
industries, these per annum consumers of cement include
m
are respectively. public infrastructure at 20 per cent
(Andhra Pradesh)
collectivelyknown and industrial development at 15
as petrochemical per cent.
industries They are located in the states of
Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and
Polymers are made from ethylene andpropylene. These
Tamil Nadu.
materials are obtained intheprocess of refining crude oil.

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