Reuse & Recycle of Treated Industrial Effluent Using Chlorine Dioxide

Posted on 11 February, 2010 | Tags: Water Management

Water management is one of the key areas that the industries work on not only to reduce the water footprint, but reuse and recycle of water in the industries substantially adds to the profit margins. Chlorine dioxide because of its excellent oxidation properties disinfects water for reuse in various applications.

Growing industrialization and ever growing population has resulted in rampant growth of Water treatment industry. But there are few challenges too that the industry is facing in terms of availability and quality of water. Water Availability - The sources of usable water are limited whereas the demand of water has increased manifolds. This has resulted in water scarcity of usable water thus putting tremendous strain on both the government bodies as well the industry to put in efforts to optimize usage of water for industrial applications and make available potable water for the communities. Water Quality - Rampant use/ misuse of water is not only resulting in depletion of fresh water resources but also pollution of surface water and ground water in many areas. As a matter of fact, polluted water has entered our homes and is a cause of illnesses. Deterioration of water quality is leading to an impact on the entire community in specific localities causing an epidemic and illness. This phenomenon is observed especially during the onset of monsoons. Water is the lifeline for industries as well as the communities and enormity of above challenges is haunting both the public and private enterprises. The physicochemical properties of the

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Unleashing Opportunities through Development of Urban Infrastructure

Posted on 11 February, 2010 | Tags: Waste Management

High degree of urbanization has exposed the challenges of government agencies in handling Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). Increase in generation of electronic, bio and industrial hazardous waste have further compounded the problem. The concern to manage the waste has increased in accordance with rapid industrial growth of our country.

India has registered stellar economic performances by consistently clocking GDP growth rates of 8-9 percent over the past five years. The robust and inclusive growth is a strong vindication of the success of economic liberalization and reforms initiated in the early 90s. As such, implementation of holistic developmental policies to aid in sustainable and inclusive growth has been the top priority of successive Governments that came into power since the 1990s. As the size of our economy is growing, Indian cities are fast becoming the pivot of innovation and growth. The role of India's urban sector in socio-economic transformation is crucial as it currently contributes about 62 percent of the GDP. The tremendous pace of urbanization has strained the existing infrastructure, which is certainly inadequate to support the ambitious growth rate of 8-10 percent envisaged by the 11th Planning Commission. The high degree of urbanization accomplished in a short time has exposed the frailties and constraints of state level agencies and urban local bodies in ensuring adequate coverage of sewage and solid waste for the urban population. Outdated urban management practices have failed to understand the needs of rapidly growing cities and thus have not focused on improving capture efficiency,

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Recession Rests on HDO's Growth Path

Posted on 11 February, 2010 | Tags: Cover Story

"Where the world was in for a slowdown, during the last six months of FY2008 we have bagged orders worth Rs1000 crores. There is no recession as far as HDO goes," quips SC Sekaran, Executive Director, Hindustan Dorr Oliver (HDO) right in the beginning of the conversation. Albeit the industry was talking about the global meltdown and the projects getting shelved, HDO was busy filling its order book. Until 2006, the company took its own course of growth with Shaw Wallace Group as a majority stakeholder. In 2006, IVRCL Infrastructure and Projects took acquired majority of shares from Manu Chhabria of Shaw Wallace Group. Acquisition of HDO a strong engineering and technology based company with a stable global brand image and core competencies in engineering and technology was a strategic move of IVRCL as a part of its own growth strategy to synergize the strengths to the core. Currently, IVRCL holds 55 percent of shares and is the majority stakeholder. Post this acquisition, turnover of HDO that was Rs 85 crores in 2005 went up to Rs 522 crores in 2008. Forte and Core StrengthsHDO is globally renowned for its competencies and is a preferred EPC company. In India, HDO

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Leveraging knowledge to increase competitiveness of process industries

Posted on 10 February, 2010 | Tags:

SG&A is a Pune based operations optimization firm, specializing in process industries, both continuous as well as batch processes. Activities are focused on providing training, consulting services and solutions in operations optimization area of process industries. Samir Gijre, the founder, has been engaged with process industries to improve performance in various roles of engineering, advisory, and business management for several years.  Samir has completed more than 50 assignments in various process industries at operations level in oil production, refining, petrochemicals, fertilizers, steel, Aluminum, copper, Dairy and chemicals. Samir is witness to the learning curve of Indian process industry, in identifying and implementing latest technology optimization projects for the last decade. He holds a B. Tech (Chemical Engineering) from Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, Nagpur. Indian process industries are unique. Most of the mega scale units in refining, fertilizers etc. are working on bought out technology, very small scale industries are working on individual's experience.  As a result, in majority plants, qualified operating personnel just follow process instructions as gospel truth. This approach leads to missed opportunities to increase operating profits on a routine basis. Plant's operating data is hardly seen by anybody, apart from daily production report, outside of the control

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Chemical Industry to Benefit from Investment Linked Tax Incentives

Posted on 10 February, 2010 | Tags:

Government of India has introduced policies in the Union Budget 2009-10 with the aim to sustain a growth rate of at least 9 percent per annum. This would further strengthen the mechanisms for inclusive growth by creating ample job opportunities for the youth. Focused budget allocation for education, infrastructure, introduction of rural employment programs and personal income-tax relief are steps in this direction. Though budget has been framed to offer maximum benefits to the common man, but corporate India does not seem to rejoice. While no changes have been made in the Corporate Taxes, Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) has been abolished. Abolition of FBT is a positive signal as the cost of implementation was very high. The announcement of introduction of Goods & Service Tax (GST) by 1st April 2010 by the Finance Minister is reassuring. It was desirable that Central Sales Tax (CST) be reduced, as this would have given a concrete direction to the said proposal. Extension of R&D deductions for the manufacturing businesses is a positive signal. This would provide major impetus for research-oriented industries for promoting product innovations. Some of the industries that would be benefited the most are Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Automobiles and Auto Components. Introduction

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