Description : Ashapura Volclay Limited (AVL), an Indo-American-Japanese joint venture, has been established to set up a state-of-the-art plant to manufacture Acid Activated Bleaching Earth in India. The joint venture is in technical collaboration with Mizusawa Industrial Chemicals Ltd., the largest producer of Activated Bleaching Earth in Japan. Till date, the product branded as GALLEON was being manufactured only in Japan. The product is well known internationally as the Galleon Brand, and is widely used as a refining and bleaching agent for various vegetable oils, fatty acids, petroleum, lubricating oils and waxes.