We are well ahead in our regulatory standards According to Dr VS Rajan, Vice President – Filter Products, Supreme Nonwoven Industries, all new projects are adopting work practices to comply to dust emission levels of below 10 mg/Nm3.

Cement capacity addition slows down
Due to the recent slowdown in demand and the abundance of supply faced by the cement industry, the capacity addition in the sector is expected to decelerate to 16 million tonne (mt) in the current fiscal year and reduce even further to 13 mt in the next FY.

We are targeting 25% TSR by 2020
Since its inception, Vicat’s focus has been on utilisation of alternative fuels and raw materials (AFR) in its cement plants. Started with a thermal substitution rate (TSR) of around 5 per cent in 2012, Milind Murumkar, Advisor – AFR, Vicat India Group, says that the company has reached to a level of 20 per cent in the last five years.

Trend is changing from bag to bulk Polypropylene packing, according to Ashwin Moghe, Vice President – Technical Services, UltraTech Cement, is the best suited for cement in India, considering transportation, pilferage and importantly, handling.

India can certainly adopt the ‘polluter pays’ principle
This, according to Ulhas Parlikar, Deputy Head, Geocycle India, involves levying prohibitive tax on the options of waste management that are not environmentally acceptable.

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