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 …
Guntur, Nov. 18: The paper mills have agreed to purchase su-babul and eucalyptus trees from farmers in the district from November 20 by offering support price fixed by the state. The district collector, Mr B. Venkatesam, and the joint-collector, Mr Kantilal Dande, on Tuesday convened a meet with the representatives …
The effect of irrigation by the effluent of paper industry versus well water on properties of soils in three seasons was studied in Nagpur district, Maharashtra. The effluent had high total dissolved salts and biological oxygen demand than well water. pH, EC and availability of N, P, K, Zn, Cu, …
This volume is part of the series Ecological Economics and Human Well-being that offers outstanding recent work in the transdisciplinary field of ecological economics, whose focus is the study of the relationship between economic activity and environmental sustainability. Recent decades have witnessed a profound transformation in regulatory regimes that shape …
The present study has been carried out to see the effect of pulp and paper mill effluent on seed germination and seedling growth of mustard, pea and rice. Mustard, pea and rice seeds were allowed to germinate in soil taken in different earthen pots and treated with different concentrations of …
In the present work, both commercial and R&D; stage biotechnological applications relevant for the pulp and paper industry are reviewed. In general, the application in this module involve the use of enzymes or micro-organisms to improve the process efficiency, product properties or quality or to decrease process energy or chemical …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Pleurotus sajorcaju MTCC-141 procured from Microbial Type Culture Collection Centre and Gene Bank, Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh has been used for color removal from paper mill effluent. The paper mill effluent amended with basal medium supports the growth of Pleurotus sajorcaju and removes the colour.
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.
"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 …
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 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 …
