Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
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 …
The forest resources of all the states are dwindling and the supply of forest produce to forest based industries has to be re-examined. In this context the supply rates of Bamboo Industrial Cuts to various paper mills of Andhra Pradesh and adjoining states of A.P. have been analyzed.
The forest resources of all the states are dwindling and the supply of forest produce to forest based industries has to be re-examined. In this context the supply rates of Bamboo Industrial Cuts to various paper mills of Andhra Pradesh and adjoining states of A.P. have been analyzed.
The present paper reports on establishment of Bambusetum, Germplasm banks and Culm production studies at JK Paper Limited, Jaykaypur, Rayagada (Orissa) and supplying it to the farmers, State Forest Department, Government and Non-Government Organizations etc. These techniques could be beneficially utilized for ex-situ conservation of desirable genotypes in establishment of …
- 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 …
ITC Paper Mills utilises UF for the removal of silica in the boiler feed water reducing the boiler blowdowns which consume heavy volumes of water and heat energy.
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 …
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. …
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
At least 300 Argentine ecologists recently protested after the World Bank indicated that it would go ahead with funding pulp mill projects in neighbouring Uruguay. In the second week of October, the bank announced that the pulp mills met its environmental standards. Protestors blocked roads in the town of Gualeguaychu …
function table() { var popurl="image/20061115/13-table.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=550,height=200,scrollbars=yes") } villagers and townsfolk of Lalkuan, Bindukhatta, Pantnagar, Kichha, Bazpur and Kashipur in Uttaranchal's terai belt are beset by water and air pollution. The districts of Nainital, Udham Singh Nagar and Hardwar have a number of red-category (most polluting) paper and pulp units and …
weed suit: A Kenyan High Court has rejected a suit filed by over 700 residents of Baringo region of Kenya asking the government to uproot allegedly poisonous weed Prosopis juliflora. In 1983, the Kenyan government had introduced the weed to curb desertification. But now Baringo residents want it uprooted, saying …
If the Indian paper industry has to grow exponentially, it must upgrade the quality of its product with one simple input: the increased use of pcc or precipitated calcium carbonate, which is found in abundance in Sirmour district of Himachal Pradesh or continue to face the threat of imported high …
A World Wide Fund for Nature's (wwf) study has estimated that every day an equivalent of 270,000 trees are flushed or thrown away in the form of tissue papers. The report compared the record of the five largest European tissue producers
Cement production is not water-intensive. On average, Indian plants use half a tonne of water to produce a tonne of cement. This is low compared to the pulp and paper industry, which consumes 200-250 tonnes of water to produce a tonne of paper. But the big absolute numbers translate into …
A proposal by itc Ltd to set up a pulp and paper plant has rekindled the debate on allowing the private sector access to the country's degraded forestland. O ne of India's largest paper producers, itc plans to invest Rs 2,500 crore to set up an elemental chlorine-free plant. Only …
One of the sites ITC is looking at for its pulp and paper unit is in Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh. But according to Naresh Biswas of Nai Duniya, an organisation working with the Baiga tribals in Mandla, "There is hardly any
