Montek shows the way
A taxation structure for the industry to make the polluter pay while giving incentives to a non-polluter will be a solution to ensure clean production, Planning Commission member Montek Singh Ahluwalia said on Friday. "If an incentive could be created within the current tax structure, then the commercial interest of a company coupled with competition will drive it towards clean technology," Ahluwalia said in his inaugural address in New Delhi at the Clean tech '99 conference. Suggesting that a separate fund be created for the purpose, he said the amount realised from a polluting industry would be balanced by across the board incentive for non-polluting ones. Noting that a number of good legislations were in place, he told the two-day conference coinciding with the Indian Engineering Trade Fair that so far fiscal incentives were not used, either by the government, citizens or industry itself to switch to clean production.DuPont's green vision
DuPont India hasunveiled a five-point agenda for greening the industry through its experience in `clean and green' technologies to make sustainable growth a universal reality in the 21st century. DuPont India president Pankaj Shah said the `greening'could be done, given cooperation among the business sector, government agencies and environment bodies and others as also strong support for creative and innovative approaches to technology and regulatory improvement. Shah, who was addressing a two-day international conference on clean technologies during the IETF '99 organised by the CII, said the five thrust areas are: efficient use of material, energy and water; reduction of emission and waste with a goal of zero; substantial use of recycled and reused materials and renewable resources; using products,processes and distribution modes which are inherently safer and creating significant value per unit of resources extracted for customer and society.
Greens go hi-tech
Spain, the partner country for Cleantech, a IETFco-exhibition, has brought 11 companies which are demonstrating their technological know-how in the area of environment-friendly technology and offering these solutions to their Indian counterparts. Among the companies is Duro Felguera, one of the largest Spanish companies involved in the clean technology sector. It specialises in hazardous waste management, specially relating to waste originating in thermal power plants, chemical industries, sugar and cement plants. Eliop SA is another leading industrial group involved in control and telecontrol systems for waste management and environment projects. AFESA is a prominent Spanish firm involved in managing, handling and transporting a hazardous waste called PCB.
Welding influence
Advani-Oerlikon Ltd, one of the leading players in the Indian welding industry is show casing its full range of products developed by it for all the critical applications in the pipeline segment at the Weld India International exhibition, a co-exhibition at the IETF '99.This is part of the company's move to position itself in the pipeline welding sector by offering a complete package of critical welding products to the pipeline segment, which has so far been dominated by MNCs. The package includes the new E 6010 and E 7010 G cellulosic electrodes which are specific to pipeline welding and the new Automelt 61 flux and wire combination -- all conforming to the API 1104 code -- the global standard for such applications. The company has also introduced special new tin packs and as also for the first time the concept of `one day welding 6 kg packs' as against 25 kg imported packs.
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