Indian Company Commissioning Deinking Plant

Central public sector Hindustan Newsprint Ltd. is set to commission its deinking plant later this month. All civil work on the project has been completed and erection of the machinery has begun, according to company managing director NP Prabhu.

The plant with a production capacity of 100 metric tons per day would help reduce dependence on forest produce for pulp by at least 33 percent, he said.

The total newsprint capacity of the plant is 1.5 metric tons a year. For the time being, the company would be sourcing its waste from the U.S. On the need to go in for such a costly venture, Prabhu said that this was needed to stabilize the plants operations. Once through, the company would consider sourcing the recovered fiber domestically.

Larsen & Tubro was involved in the machinery installation operations and the machinery would be sourced from the German firm Voith.

About plans for raising the plant capacity or other modernization projects, Prabhu said that as of now, the company was concentrating on the de-inking plant.