Tuesday, September 04, 2007

SAIL is looking seriously towards emerging green opportunities

In an industry like steel, eliminating pollution becomes difficult even with latest technologies. As R.Sreedhar, steel environment expert, says, “Although the SAIL Bhilai plant has won the CSR Award this year, still communities around that area continue to suffer from pollution and very little corrective action is being taken...” But the SAIL plant is doing quite a bit. The company has given top priority to raw material consumption and water conservation & solid waste management techniques. Having increased their saleable steel production by over 4% to 12.6 million tonnes, SAIL even achieved its lowest energy consumption rate of 7.16 Gcal/TCS in FY 06-07.
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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2007
An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative