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Statutory Reports • Board’s Report<br />

Annual Report 2014 - 15<br />

ANNEXURE – VII<br />

CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION, FOREIGN EXCHANGE<br />

EARNINGS AND OUTGO<br />

(A) Conservation of energy -<br />

During the year, the Company has implemented energy conservation projects across its various business units and accrued savings of<br />

approximately ` 187.70 million.<br />

Major categories of such investments are:<br />

1. Installation of Energy efficient equipment: Major projects in this category include replacement of water ring vacuum pumps<br />

with oil ring vacuum pumps, adopting energy efficient technologies in HVAC systems, replacing single equipment for filtration<br />

and drying operations instead of separate equipment, replacement of old inefficient pumps, air compressors, HVAC blowers etc.<br />

with new ones which are energy economical.<br />

2. Optimization of processes consuming energy: Major initiatives in the category include setting up side stream filtration systems<br />

for cooling towers (which would avoid scaling & corrosion of equipment thereby increasing the life and energy of cooling towers),<br />

brine utility optimization, bag house for boiler efficiency, optimizing steam and water distribution, installation of VFDs, optimizing<br />

furnace oil usage, reusing ETP water for gardening, better usage of day light, and introducing dynamic parameter controls<br />

through instrumentation.<br />

3. Identifying cheaper power sources both in-house and external: Major initiatives include investing in dedicated feeder lines<br />

for purchasing open access power in place of DG sets during power holidays, building in-house Co-Gen plant to meet steam and<br />

power requirements, switching to Tata Power, introducing voltage stabilizers etc.<br />

4. Utilizing the alternate sources of energy: Company has signed long term power supply contracts with solar power developers<br />

for supply of 22 MW solar power, out of which 11 MW is already operational and supplied with 14 million units during FY2015,<br />

which is 4.7% of total FY2015 power consumption. Additional 11 MW will add on during FY2016 and the total solar power supply<br />

will become 33 million units, which is 10% of total power consumption.<br />

5. Steps in progress for increasing the utilization of alternate sources of energy: Work in progress to set up 15 MW captive<br />

solar power plants with joint venture partners. Further, the Company is planning to sign additional 23 MW long term power<br />

supply contracts with solar power developers. Overall the utilization of alternate sources of energy to become 25% of total power<br />

consumption.<br />

(B) Technology absorption<br />

i. Efforts made towards technology absorption The Company has a full-fledged R&D division continuously engaged in research on<br />

new products and process improvement on existing products as part of continuous<br />

improvement. As a part of technology absorption and adoption, once technology<br />

is developed for a product, it is tested in a Pilot Plant and thereafter commercial<br />

production is performed. Innovation is embarked on by an incremental approach<br />

towards cost, time, quality and complex product development by adopting cutting<br />

edge technology and our philosophy is to continuously upgrade the technology.<br />

ii.<br />

iii.<br />

Benefits derived like product improvement, cost reduction, product<br />

development or import substitution.<br />

In case of imported technology (imported during the last three years<br />

reckoned from the beginning of the financial year) -<br />

a) Details of technology imported<br />

b) Year of import<br />

c) Whether the technology been fully absorbed<br />

d) If not fully absorbed, areas where absorption has not<br />

taken place, and the reasons thereof; and<br />

Successful development of complex generics products accomplished through<br />

Innovation and science. Improved quality by adopting Quality by Design concept.<br />

Technology adoption yielded improvement in robustness, and cost.<br />

No imported technology.<br />

iv. the expenditure incurred on R&D FY2015 FY2014<br />

a) Capital (` million) 689 724<br />

b) Recurring (` million) 11,230 9,982<br />

c) Total (` million) 11,919 10,706<br />

Total R&D expenditure as a percentage of total turnover 12.00% 11.10%<br />

(C) Foreign exchange earnings and outgo<br />

Please refer information given in the note nos. 2.33 and 2.34 – Notes to the accounts.<br />

K Satish Reddy<br />

Chairman<br />

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