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 …
New Delhi With the rising demand for paper and paper products during the last decade, the industry has urged the government to explore possibility of using a part of the huge track of wasteland for growing trees, which would meet future wood pulp requirements. An assessment of the raw material …
Valuable trees were felled and transported on Tuesday by residents of Belavadi, near Ramanathapura in Hassan district due to a difference of opinion with the village forest committee. Neither the forest department personnel nor the police could take any action even as hundreds of trees were cut down. The Karnataka …
Energy efficiency and the profitable use of biomass residues are often demonstrated by pulp and paper factories, which are forerunners in this area. A new example is given by Dalkia and Metso, global players in bioenergy service and technology in France.
The Environmental Paper Network (EPN) publishes the State of the Industry Report as a resource for policy-makers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the paper industry, large volume paper purchasers and other stakeholders to monitor key indicators of environmental sustainability in the North American pulp and paper industry. This 2011 installment highlights some …
In April this year, Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra made history. One of its villages became the country’s first to win the right to sell and harvest bamboo. Down To Earth reports how India's largest paper manufacturing company Ballarpur Industries Limited (BILT) is using most of the bamboo in Maharashtra, leaving …
In April this year, Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra made history. One of its villages became the country’s first to win the right to sell and harvest bamboo. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh handed over transit pass books to residents of Mendha Lekha village, allowing them to exercise community forest rights over …
Greenpeace said on Wednesday it had evidence that Barbie doll packaging comes from Indonesian rainforests, accusing toy manufacturers such as Mattel and Walt Disney Co of contributing to the country's rapid deforestation. On Tuesday, Greenpeace activists dressed as Ken dolls abseiled down the side of Mattel headquarters near Los Angeles …
Today is World Environment Day and many statements have been released for protecting ecology. The industrial revolution in lower areas of the state has also raised many environmental concerns. Many industrial units are coming up on riverbeds. A survey by The Tribune in various industrial areas in Una and Kangra …
Motion-sensing cameras on the island of Sumatra captured video of two families of endangered tigers in a lowland forest scheduled for destruction, the World Wildlife Fund said Monday. Twelve tigers, including two adult females with cubs, passed in front of the cameras over two months between the Bukit Tigapuluh National …
An agreement has been signed between the Bashundhara Paper Mills Ltd (BPML) and Specialty Minerals Inc of USA at the conference room of East West Media Group Ltd (EWMGL) on Sunday afternoon to produce Precipitated Calcium Carbonate (PCC), an essential ingredient for whiter and better quality paper, where carbon dioxide …
“Stroke of the pen” reform is critical as in many cases policy is dastardly and change is laggardly. The essential element is to find that big-ticket item that can have impact on a scale and at a pace that is needed. I believe Union environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh’s …
Evaluation of chemical properties in the present experiment showed that the maximum cold water solubility, hot water solubility, 1% alkali solubility, alcohol-benzene solubility along with lignin content were observed in Bombax ceiba followed by Anthocephalus cadamba. The findings of the present investigation can be feasibly used in screening and selecting …
There's radical change happening in the forest, paper & packaging (FPP) industry. We believe several key factors will shape the sector's direction over the next two decades, including technology, fibre competition, changing industry structures (and new players/partners) and regulation. Your company is a business which takes a long-term perspective – …
Global concerns about climate change and declining resources mean that major companies must do their best to produce and use energy as efficiently as possible. Paper industry as a sector consume approx. 7.5-15% of the total energy consumed by the industrial sector depending upon the region & operational parameters.
The Union Cabinet had approved the National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency (NMEEE). The Mission will usher in the four new initiatives to significantly scale up implementation of energy efficiency in India. The flagship of the Mission is the Perform Achieve and Trade (PAT) mechanism, which is a market-based mechanism …
Energy is an essential requirement for overall development of the nation. Pulp & Paper Industry in India has complex structure of old and new plants having diversified technology with varying raw materials and producing different grades of paper. This significantly affects the energy requirement of the mills and therefore results …
Indian paper industries are now constantly working to become more eco-friendly by effective utilization of resources. In the same line, TNPL (Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd.) initiated many innovative measures to reduce energy consumption and to reduce the carbon foot print. The major efforts and innovations taken by TNPL …
Energy conservation in pulp and paper mills, is not restricted to one form of energy management. Power and Steam Management go hand in hand, with Climate Change Development, adding as the third dimension. The paper aims at bringing out select innovative climate friendly combined heat and power (CHP) schemes relating …
The Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills has envisaged an integrated pulpwood based farm forestry project for more than two decades. Targeting marginal and wastelands, the mill has now introduced low cost planting technique, particularly development of high quality seedlings and clonal Casuarina at the minimum affordable cost.
