Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
The Australian government has given the go-ahead for construction of a controversial aus $2-billion (us $1.8 billion ) pulp mill on the island state of Tasmania. Conservationists fear the mill will destroy the region's native forests and threaten endangered species. The mill will be built in the island's Tamar valley. …
CHANDIGARH: With the commissioning of its state-of-the-art integrated pulp and paper project on Wednesday, Abhishek Industries Limited (AIL), the flagship of the Trident Group, claims to have emerged as the world's largest wheat straw-based integrated paper plant. According to a spokesperson of the company, the new project, set up with …
T E Narasimhan State-owned Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd (TNPL) is planning to invest Rs 1,000 crore to expand its paper making capacity to four lakh tonnes a year from current 2.45 lakh tonnes. NPL also considering diversifying into cement manufacturing business, using waste wet lime sludge generated from …
India has growing shortages of timber and wood-based products. Agro-forestry plantations promoted by wood-based industries and raised by a large number of small farmers and imports play a major role in bridging the demand supply gap. Private sector companies like Wimco and ITC have played a major role in promoting …
Introduction of tropical pines was a path-breaking trend in Indian forestry. It was driven by huge increase in demand of paper and pulp in the country which led to the search for fast growing species with long fibre.
Shares in timber company Gunns fell sharply in intraday trading today, following reports that the ANZ bank would pull out of funding Gunns' controversial $2 billion pulp mill project in Tasmania. At 12.51pm, Gunns was down 18 cents, or 5.61%, at $3.03, having touched a low for the day of …
A paper and pulp mill, operating in southern Chile, has pitted a group of fisherfolk against its neighbours and is trying to get away by installing a controversial pipeline to dump waste water from its mill into the Pacific ocean. In the past few weeks the groups in Mehuin and …
Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited, the third largest entity in the Indian Paper Industry operating with three large integrated paper mills each with installed capacity of 1,00,000 ton paper per annum. Two are directly managed Units in Asom
Probe on Baikal pollution: The Russian prosecutor's office has launched an inquiry into a paper and pulp mill suspected of polluting Lake Baikal, the world's largest freshwater reserve. The mill, built in 1966, was illegally dumping waste in the lake and was breaking environmental norms in the area; there are …
"It is a great moment for me to come to Nagaland today with a purpose and a mission to revive in dealing with the Nagaland Paper & Pulp Company (NPPC) and to physically see and to get the first hand impression about the unit so that we could jointly work …
Paper manufacturers have not changed the prices of their products despite the excise duty on paper being cut by 4 per cent in the Budget this year. The companies said they were faced with a huge cost-push from the raw material side and were not in a position to cut …
In the backdrop of rising input costs for the paper and pulp industry, prices of paper and allied products have surged between 3 and 10 per cent across categories in the last three months, with more hikes lined up for the upcoming quarter. "Writing and printing paper prices have soared …
Shredded notes in the process of transformation to fine paper at Kumarappa National Handmade Paper Institute in Jaipur. It may look alchemy working in reverse order. Nevertheless it is alchemy turning waste into wealth once again. Soiled currency notes undergo metamorphosis in Jaipur's Kumarappa National Handmade Paper Institute (KNHPI) to …
PAPER The industry may not pass on the excise duty cuts on writing, printing and packing paper to consumers. The measures # The excise duty on writing, printing and packing paper has been reduced from 12 to 8 per cent. Further, full exemption from excise has been provided for paper …
- Office supplies retailer Staples has cut off business with Indonesia's Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), one of the world's biggest paper companies, due to concerns over environmental issues, The Wall Street Journal said on Friday. The report quoted a Staples executive as saying Staples had severed ties with APP …
Uruguay's controversial wood pulp mill produced its first payload on October 15 amidst protests from the neighbouring Argentina and environmentalists across the globe. The first thousand tonnes of cellulose, raw ingredients for making paper, produced by the plant's current operator Metsa-Botnia group, will now be dispatched to China, Europe and …
pulp appraisal: A federal court in Australia agreed to expedite an appeal hearing over an Aus $2 billion pulp mill proposal in Tasmania state. Environmental groups had challenged the government's environmental assessment of the proposed mill. A lower court had rejected the groups' challenge, following which they appealed the federal …
In a first-of-its-kind venture in India, bamboo pulp is being used in the manufacture of sanitary pads as absorbing material, instead of the regular wood pulp. Bamboo pulp has advantages: one, it is 300 per cent more absorbent and safer than wood pulp; two, it economises on the use of …
paper mills and distilleries in Uttaranchal are flouting pollution-control norms even though the State Pollution Control Board (spcb) claims that all is well. A study conducted by spcb in 2006, however, contradicts its own stand (see
