Fal G
Germany's kfw bank group has approved a project of Hyderabad-based Eco Carbon to use its proprietary technology to produce Fal- g (flyash-lime-gypsym) bricks. This could lead to the purchase of carbon credits from Indian companies: manufacturing Fal- g bricks instead of clay bricks could earn Indian industry carbon credits. "Fal-g …
Pure loss
Vanishing topsoil is the greatest hidden cost of making bricks. There is the land on which a kiln has to be set up. This land kiln-owners buy. But there is also the land from which is dug out the clay that forms the raw material of the business. "The cost …
Pure need
Tez Singh, 67, is of Ardaspur village, district Aligarh, on the Aligarh-Mathura highway. "Eleven years ago, I gave 10 bighas of land, at Rs 15,000 per bigha, for three years to Laxmi Brick Industry.' He points towards the opposite side of the road. "Soil was to be dug up to …