Pine Needle Project - A Boon for Hills
25 May 2005, Ramnagar
The hills of Uttarakhand are rich in natural resources such as forest, mineral, water, livestock and agro-climatic conditions, the hill region still has little potential for industrial development. We all know the availability of Dry Pine Needle (BOON or PIRUL) in abundance in our forests. What can be done of it and how can we get rid of burning forests year after year and every summer!! Dry Pine Needle can turn the face of hills so far as the industry in the mountains is concerned. It can generate employment in rural areas.
Dry Pine Needle (DPN) which is a forest waste and a serious fire hazard has now successfully been converted into useful water cooler pad used for the room cooling. Its going to replace the pine wood material and save trees from felling.
DPN is also going to be used for extracting Lignin Chemical, which will be used by the Lead Acid Batteries, Oil Well Drilling, Textile Tanning, Water Treatment, Cement, Agricultural spray, Ceramics, Refractories, Foundry, Briquetting, Gypsum Board, Asphalt Emulsions, Industrial cleaners, Carbon black and Pigments, Ore Benefication, Linoleum Paste and Vanillin.
The first pilot commercial project on DPN is coming up at Mohaan near Ramnagar. This plant will produce 300mt of Lignin chemical and 5 Lakh water cooler pads annually. Garjiya Chemicals Pvt. Ltd. will consume only 3,000 mt of DPN. Interestingly, Uttarakhand alone has more than 4 Lakh mt/year of forest waste DPN. The patent for converting DPN has been registered by Shri. S N Verma and all the necessary Research & Development completed in long 17 years. Once the commercial pilot projects goes off the stream, states like J&K, Himanchal, Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and countries like Nepal - Bhutan would like to set-up factories for processing this forest waste in their areas
Chandan Dangi
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