Dabur goes green in war on carbon

Consumer goods major Dabur India has chalked out plans to emerge as a carbon-neutral enterprise. The company is setting up new boilers, gasifiers and biogas generators at its manufacturing units in India and Nepal to re-use wet herbal waste from the facility as fuel.

Consumer goods major Dabur India has chalked out plans to emerge as a carbon-neutral enterprise. The company is setting up new boilers, gasifiers and biogas generators at its manufacturing units in India and Nepal to re-use wet herbal waste from the facility as fuel.

The company also commissioned this month a new gasifier at its Nepal unit that would generate steam by using rice husk as fuel, thus saving on the energy costs.

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Set up with an investment of Rs 1.5 crore, this project involves modification of the existing boiler to permit dual fuel firing (furnace oil and gas).

“This initiative was put in place in view of the rising fuel costs and recent fuel crisis in Nepal. This move has already reduced our furnace oil consumption for steam generation by 50 per cent. We have also invested in elaborate scrubbing and particle separation technology to ensure that exhaust fumes from the boilers do not carry any unburnt particulate matter,” said Sunil Duggal, CEO, Dabur India Ltd.

At its Katni unit in Madhya Pradesh, the company has substituted furnace oil with petcoke — a byproduct of crude refining — as fuel. Similar initiatives are also underway at its units in Newai (Rajasthan), Baddi (Himachal Pradesh), Sahibabad (Uttar Pradesh) and Nepal.

The company would invest around Rs 5 crore towards these programmes.