The National Productivity Council (NPC) has come out with a low cost solution to control <link _top>air pollution in <link _top>cupola <link _top>foundries. A demonstration of the technology and presentation of its details was arranged recently by the engineering industrial associations.
President of the Coimbatore Industrial Infrastructure Association (COINDIA) G. Rajendran told that <link _top>foundries had to spend over Rs. 2 lakh each now to install <link _top>air pollution <link _top>control equipment. This was expensive for the small-scale <link _top>foundries and hence the Coimbatore Tiny and Small <link _top>Foundry Owners; Association had initiated a study by the council.
The COINDIA had supported the initiative by providing Rs. 3 lakh for the study. The council studied the problem in the <link _top>foundries here for the last two years and had developed a technology that would cost just Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 60,000 for a <link _top>foundry. The technology was approved by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board and would benefit about 500 small and tiny <link _top>foundries, he said. The COINDIA would now provide the design concept to the <link _top>foundries interested in installing the technology.
