New Delhi: Balrampur Chini Mills Ltd (BCML) has received Rs 75 crore in grant assistance from the government to set up a pilot-scale research and development facility for polylactic acid (PLA) co-polymers, the company said on Thursday.
The grant has been awarded by the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) under the Department of Biotechnology's BioE3 initiative. The proposed facility will have a capacity of 100 tonnes per annum and will be located at BCML's integrated manufacturing complex at Kumbhi in Uttar Pradesh.