Prada Chairman on Digital Sustainability, Risks and Opportunities
Prada’s chairman Carlo Mazzi discusses the group’s approach to all things digital ahead of the second "Shaping a Future" event.
Source: wwd.com
Prada’s chairman Carlo Mazzi discusses the group’s approach to all things digital ahead of the second "Shaping a Future" event.
Source: wwd.com
The production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for solar PV modules is a positive for domestic original equipment manufacturers and it would help improve cost competitiveness for the domestic industry, rating agency ICRA said on Monday. ‘The benefits available under the PLI scheme along with the imposition of basic customs duty (BCD) on imported solar PV cells and imported solar PV modules are likely to improve the cost competitiveness of domestic PV module manufacturers against imported modules by more than 10 per cent at the prevailing imported module prices, under assumption of backward integration up to cells,” it said in a statement.
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