BASF India Ltd, a subsidiary of the world’s leading chemical company, BASF Group, has reduced energy and maintenance costs at its manufacturing plant in New Bombay by fitting Thermal Energy International’s award winning GEM Quartz Venturi orifice steam traps. Installed by Hyderabad based Zenith Marketing & Consultants, a company specialising in industrial energy saving products, the GEM steam traps have provided BASF India with energy savings of 7% (based on bucket tests carried out on site) and a short-term payback of 8 months.