Aster Silicates shuts down Jhagadia plant

Aster Silicates will shut down existing Jhagadia Plant due to emergency breakdown. The plant will be closed for the period of minimum 15 days for repairing and maintenance work and the repairing will be starting from July 01, 2011.

Recently, Aster Silicates had started the first phase commercial production of the new project established out of initial public offering (IPO) funds from December 23, 2010 with 150 MT per day capacity. Further, the entire project was expected to be completed by March 2011.

Aster Silicates is engaged in the business of manufacturing of sodium silicate which includes food grade sodium silicate, special drilling grade silicate and detergent grade silicate. The company produces sodium silicate both in glass and liquid form.