Mitsui Sumitomo to Launch Soil Cleaning Technology in India

— India's $2 billion USD diversified business conglomerate, Murugappa Group, and its joint venture partner, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group, plan to launch technologies that will clean up contaminated soil and groundwater to make it safe to develop industrial land that might be polluted. Many developed countries including Japan, the United States, the Netherlands and Canada have developed soil quality standards whereby industries use remediation methods to clean up their environment. In India, which lacks such environment quality standards, the demand will be first from property owners in industrial areas who want to convert their land for non-industrial use...