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TATA Steel :

The R & D laboratory was set up in 1937. Today, Tata Steel is the first in India to develop galvannealed skin panels. It is the only Indian supplier of bake hardening steel for body panels.

Research is undertaken at Tata Steel in the areas of raw materials including coal, coke, energy conservation, waste utilisation, sintering, blast furnace productivity and phosphorous reduction, product development and improvement in life of plant and machinery. The Company spends 7% of its turnover for R&D 17 patents have been sealed and over 100 are in process

Steel Authority of India :

Research and Development Centre for Iron and Steel (RDCIS) has provided innovative technological inputs to different units of SAIL, with special emphasis on cost reduction, product development and application, quality improvement, energy conservation and automation. Several new products were developed and commercialised like DMR 249 Gr. A at Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP), Bokaro Steel Plant Steel (BSL) and Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), Spade M-1 steel as per CDA 99 specification at RSP, Fe 415 Gr. Thermo Mechanically Treated (TMT) rebar with micro-alloying at BSP, high strength corrosion resistance roof bolt grade bars at Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP), earthquake resistant TMT rebars (Fe-415) at DSP, Cu-Mo pearlitic rail at BSP, high strength micro alloyed rails at BSP etc. The RDCIS strengthened its technology marketing efforts by providing consultancy services, organising specialised testing and transfer of technological innovations to outside customers like M/s Power Grid Corporation of India, Gurgaon; M/s Refcom (India) Pvt

Ltd., Purulia (West Bengal); M/s Sarvesh Refractories, Rourkela; M/s Balmer Lawrie Ltd., Kolkata, and M/s Monarch Electronics, Kolkata, etc.

During the year, 1998 technical papers were published/presented, besides filing of 31 patents and 29 copyrights. The scientists at the RDCIS won nine national level awards. In addition, RDCIS won the prestigious “DSIR National Award 2005 for R&D achievements in New Materials” given by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.

Environment

TATA Steel:

Tata Steel’s efforts at Environment Management are well recognised. It’s Steel Works in Jamshedpur, all its mines, collieries and manufacturing divisions in its out has an ISO-14001 certified service provider.locations are certified to ISO-14001.

Jamshedpur is the only town in the country which

Significant achievements by the Company include an improvement in environment and resource conservation, including a reduction in green house erosion, raw materials and water consumption. The Company has increased waste re-use and re-cycling. Constant upgradation and modernisation has resulted in several state-of-the-art pollution control systems being installed to prevent and control pollution. The Company has almost doubled its capital investment in Pollution Abatement in the last five years.

Emissions, effluents and wastes

Greenhouse Gas (GHG): Of the six Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Dioxide is of most relevance to the steel industry. Considerable reduction has been effected by Tata Steel in the Carbon Dioxide emission rate, as is evident when the credit for slag granulation is taken into account. Other Greenhouse Gas emissions do not result from Tata Steel’s activities.

Ozone depleting substances: The Steel Works reduced use of refrigerants to 7.044 tonnes in 2003-04 as against 7.90 tonnes used during the previous year.

Hazardous Waste under Basel Convention: The Company does not import or export any waste, deemed hazardous under the Basel Convention. All hazardous wastes generated are handled as per the requirement of the Hazardous Waste Management and Handling Rules 1989/2000.

Emissions

Tata Steel has undertaken several initiatives, which have resulted in considerable reduction in stack emission. Emissions are well below the Indian and international standards. The emission load including particulate matter, Sulphur Dioxide and Oxides of Nitrogen have dropped as a result of the improvement initiative undertaken at the Steel Works.

Waste handling

Most of the solid waste generated from Steel Works is recycled or reused. 18%

of the solid waste generated, amounting to approximately 5,50,000 tonnes in 2003-04 was used to fill low-lying areas and for peripheral road construction around Jamshedpur. About 2,00,000 tonnes of fly ash and bottom ash, generated in the power plants was dumped in a designated dump area.

Effluent Management

Waste water from the steel making process is being treated with best available physio-chemical methods as well as being recycled. Waste water from the coke plant is treated biologically where organic pollutants are oxidised and decomposed by micro organisms. The Company has reduced the levels of total pollutant discharge in waste water streams from 0.211 in 1999-2000 to 0.178 in 2003-04.

Steel Authority of India :

Corporate environmental policy of SAIL emphasises “conducting operations in an environmentally responsible manner to comply with applicable regulations and striving to go beyond”. SAIL recognizes its responsibility to continuously improve its energy efficiency and optimize resource consumption through various measures viz.

improvement in process technology in the areas of raw materials, coke, iron and steel making, reuse/recycle of the by-products generated and conservation of energy and water.

Solid Waste Management

During 2005-06, SAIL produced approximately 13.4 million tonne of crude steel and generated 5.6 million tonne of Blast Furnace (BF) slag, 1.3 million tonne Steel Melting Shop (SMS) slag and 0.6 million tonne of other process wastes. Utilisation of

these wastes are being made through internal recycling and selling to outside agencies. The wastes generated in the steel plants are being utilized mainly through their Sinter plant. SAIL plants have achieved 70% utilisation of solid wastes generated during April-September, 2006.

Environmental Plantation

Trees have a significant role in protection of environment and ecological balance.

Extensive afforestation programme are being followed in all the plants and mines. The basis of choosing the species of plants mainly depends on local soil characteristics and prevailing meteorological conditions. The green belt developed by afforestation adds to the aesthetic environment, which becomes dust and noise barriers.

A total number of 1,45,521 saplings have been planted covering an area of 63.7 hectare in 2005-06 as against 77,242 nos of saplings planted in an area of 36.6 hectare in 2004-05 in and around the steel plants of SAIL.

Environmental Recognitions

SAIL plants have been awarded various prizes for environmental management in their plants viz. “Sustainability prize in independent unit category”, 2006 instuted by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) for exemplary performance in the environmental, economic andsocial dimensions of sustainable development and the Greentech Environment Excellence Gold Award,Golden Peacock Environment Excellence Award in the metal sector, 2005 instuted by the World Environment Foundation and the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Pollution Control Excellence Award for 2005 from International Greenland Society.