INDIAN RAYON AND INDUSTRIES LIMITED - Aditya Birla Nuvo, Ltd

Environment ReportENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – A WAY OF LIFE AT INDIAN RAYONIndian Rayon — Green at heart. Our Carbon Black Plant.At Indian Rayon, we firmly believe in sustainable development. We deeply appreciatethe fact that the earth’s resources and its capacity to absorb pollution and regenerate arefinite. Therefore, operations at all of our units are conducted in an eco-efficient way.Naturally then, the environment dimension forms an integral part of all businessdecisions.At all of our Plants viz, the Rayon Plant at Veraval, the Insulator units at Halol andRishra, the Textile Plant at Rishra, coupled with the Carbon Black Plants at Renukoot andGummudipoondi, environment protection is a key priority. Through pursuing pollutionprevention, product stewardship and clean technologies, we endeavour to attain our goal ofsustainable development.Our Plants are ISO 14001 EMS certified. State-of-the-art Industrial Effluent TreatmentPlants are in operation at all of our locations. A major quantity of the treated effluent isrecycled to meet the diverse needs of our Plants.AIR POLLUTION CONTROL MEASURESWe make concerted efforts to ensure a dust-free atmosphere in and around our Plantat Veraval, and to see that dust does not escape into the environment. To do so steamgenerating boilers with electrostatic precipitators and bag filters have been instituted.Additionally the coal crusher house is fitted with a dust extraction system.At our carbon black plants, air pollution control measures have been embedded at thedesign stage itself. Apart from wet and dry scrubbing systems, which control the flying out ofcarbon black particles into the atmosphere, we have converted the gases released intosteam, for the generation of power. Besides using it for our captive consumption, power sogenerated is sent to the state grid station.At Jayashree Textiles, to arrest the fly ash coming out of the boiler stack, a cyclonic bagfilter in the exhaust of the coal fired boiler has been installed. A mechanical Ash Conveying29