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Sep 27, 2006 : Nepa Mills recycles newspapers
Started in 1956, Nepa Mills in MP was using Salai wood and bamboo to make paper. This has creates considerable pressure on forests. Then in the late eighties, while expanding capacity, the mills switched to old newspapers as its main feedstock. It now seelks to buy 6,000 tonnes of old newspapers a month. The long and wide nationwide network of rag-pickers, aggregators and big dealers have got busy. Supplies are coming in from Hyderabad, Mumbai, Nagpur, Bangalore and Chennai.Businessline ran a story on it today because a Chennai vendor has won a competitive tender to supply 3,000 tonnes per month and has already supplied 20,000 in five months. Before that, most of the newspaper waste was sent to Sivakasi to produce crackers that are produced often using child labour. And crackers pollute the air and leave a litter of shredded paper on the ground.
Sep 25, 2006 : Affordable Hepatitis-B vaccine
Indian pharma entrepreneurs competing with world majors is familiar news by now. But here’s a surprise player: the National Dairy Development Board [NDDB]. It has launched Elovac-B, its branded, low-cost vaccine for humans against Hepatitis-B. Human Biologicals Institution, a division under NDDB’s wholly owned manufacturing arm, Indian Immunologicals Ltd will produce the vaccine. Elovac is said to be 40% of the cost of similar products from Indian and MNC pharma companies. About 200 million doses are expected to be manufactured and distributed mostly through its own countrywide network of 2,000 clinics.NDDB is also working on measles, DPT, TT and combination vaccines. Links to story and NDDB
Sep 25, 2006 : Workers in management
Kanan Devan Hills Plantation [KDHP] is the world’s largest company that is run by participatory management. 97% of its over 13,000 employees own shares in the company and direct its policy. Today’s Businessline has a story on a director of KDHP. She is Ms A Chandra, a tea plucker earning Rs 83 per day from the Rs 105 crore company which she helps govern.Chandra is an award winning plucker, having recorded 216 kg of leaves a day. No wonder an earlier report said that productivity at KDHP has risen by 35%. The plantation is now seeking to diversify into growing herbs and medicinal plants.
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