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Chemical industries have to face problems due to stiff global competition, availability of cheaper products, increasing cost of raw materials and power, reduced availability of water, increasingly stringent laws for pollution control, labour problems, operational disturbance due to occasional power failures, etc.
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Golwalkar, K. (2015). Process Equipment Procurement: Need and Options. In: Process Equipment Procurement in the Chemical and Related Industries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12078-2_1
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