Tag: Gujarat

Biogas
Nexgen Gujarat plans to establish CBG plant

Nexgen Gujarat plans to establish CBG plant

Renewable fuels company Nexgen Energia plans to invest RS 30 billion (EUR 332 million) to set up a compressed biogas (CBG) plant in Gujarat. Once operational, the plant should supply CBG directly to CNG pumps.…

E-Waste
Hindalco purchased land for new e-waste recycling plant in Dahej

Hindalco purchased land for new e-waste recycling plant in Dahej

Aluminium producer Hindalco Industries has reportedly acquired 150 acres of land at the Payal Industrial Park in Dahej, Gujarat, for its copper and e-scrap recycling plant. According to earlier sources, the company plans to invest…

Biogas
Adani Total Gas received new order for CBG plant

Adani Total Gas received new order for CBG plant

Indian gas company Adani Total Gas Ltd has announced plans to design, construct, finance and operate a compressed biogas plants in PPP mode in Pirana or Gyaspur, near Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The order was submitted by…

Biogas
Suzuki agrees on 4 new AD projects in Banaskantha

Suzuki agrees on 4 new AD projects in Banaskantha

Automobile company Suzuki Motor Corporation has signed an agreement for the development of four biogas production plants in Gujarat. The agreement was concluded between Suzuki R&D Center India Private Limited, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB),…

E-Waste
New battery recycling proposal in Jamnagar

New battery recycling proposal in Jamnagar

Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) will reportedly set up a battery recycling and production facility in Jamnagar, Gujarat. The plant should be operating by 2026. The source does not mention the future size or…

Biogas
Approval for 42 new urban AD plants

Approval for 42 new urban AD plants

The Indian Ministry of Finance announced plans to build 500 new AD plants across the country, of which 75 are to be build in urban areas. Most of the urban plants should be build in…

Waste to Energy
Waste to Energy project in Vadodara delayed

Waste to Energy project in Vadodara delayed

The implementation of a Waste to Energy plant in Vadodara Municipality, Gujarat is delayed. As the source indicates, the plant by Abelan Clean Energy Ltd. should have been operational by December 2021. Furthermore, Abelan Clean…

Biogas
ANIL and RIL to set up 2 biogas plants each

ANIL and RIL to set up 2 biogas plants each

Utility Adani New Industries (ANIL) and conglomerate Reliance Industries (RIL) are planning to each develop two biogas plants. Both companies plan to invest up to INR 6 billion (EUR 74.26 million) in the new projects.…

Waste to Energy
Jamnagar’s new WtE plant inaugurated

Jamnagar’s new WtE plant inaugurated

Gujarat chief minister Mr Bhupendra Patel virtually inaugurated the Jamnagar Municipal Corporation’s (JMC) waste-to-energy park in Jamnagar’s Gandhinagar district on Wednesday. The plant will produce 7.5 MW of electricity daily. The facility was built under…

Policy & others
Rs 403.77 cr for legacy waste clearance in Gujarat

Rs 403.77 cr for legacy waste clearance in Gujarat

The Centre has approved Rs 403.77 crores for legacy waste clearance in Gujarat. To retrieve prime land in Gujarat from hazardous landfills, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has approved the central share…

Recycling
Hydromet to build new LiBs recycling plants

Hydromet to build new LiBs recycling plants

Gujarat-based metallurgy company Hydromet has announced plans for three new lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) recycling plants in India and overseas, as reported by PV Magazine. The combined annual capacity is expected to reach 10,000 tons. A…

Medical
Maharashtra generated highest biomedical waste volume in one year

Maharashtra generated highest biomedical waste volume in one year

Maharashtra generated the highest volume of biomedical waste (BMW) in the country between June 2020 and June 2021, according to a recent document submitted by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in Lok…

Recycling
Hindalco to build new aluminium recycling unit in Mundra

Hindalco to build new aluminium recycling unit in Mundra

Aluminium and copper producer, Hindalco Industries, has announced investments for its sites in Hirakud (Odisha), Silvassa (Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu) and Mundra (Gujarat), as reported by The Times of India. At…

Hazardous
Gujarat approves five new plants for hazardous waste

Gujarat approves five new plants for hazardous waste

The Gujurat state government has granted permission for the development of five new Treatment Stabilization Disposal Facilities (TSDF) for the treatment of hazardous waste. This decision was made, as further reported, against the background that…

Mixed Waste
Gujarat: 74% MSW dumped without processing, says CAG report

Gujarat: 74% MSW dumped without processing, says CAG report

As much as 74 per cent of municipal solid waste generated in cities and towns of Gujarat was dumped without any processing during five-year period of 2014-19, says a report tabled by the Comptroller and…

COVID Waste
Gujarat PCB to set up additional BMW facilities

Gujarat PCB to set up additional BMW facilities

The Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has decided to enhance its biomedical waste (BMW) facilities in view of COVID-19 pandemic. At present there are 20 Common Treatment Plants operational throughout the state where biomedical wastes,…

Waste to Energy
Keppel Seghers to set up two WtE plants in Gujarat

Keppel Seghers to set up two WtE plants in Gujarat

Belgian Waste-to-Energy (WtE) technology firm, Keppel Seghers, has secured contracts worth over €12 million from Abellon Clean Energy Limited in Gujarat in India for the supply of energy from waste equipment and services. The first…

Scrap
Locations discussed for ELV shredding and recycling facility

Locations discussed for ELV shredding and recycling facility

As reported in April 2016, steel service company Mahindra Intertrade Ltd. and state-controlled MSTC Ltd. developed India’s first integrated End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV) shredding and recycling facility that is planned to get operational by 2018 and…

Landfilling
Abellon and Agraferm to develop AD plants

Abellon and Agraferm to develop AD plants

Energy technology company, Abellon CleanEnergy Limited, has entered a technical agreement with German AD plant manufacturer, Agraferm Group, to develop several biogas projects. The first phase will consist of setting up plants only in Gujarat…

Waste to Energy
WtE project envisaged for Ahmedabad

WtE project envisaged for Ahmedabad

According to The Times of India, a new WtE project is planned for Ahmedabad, Indian state of Gujarat. The project will be developed with the help of an unnamed Dutch company and an Indian entrepreneur.…

Biogas
Plans for biogas project on Gujarat University campus

Plans for biogas project on Gujarat University campus

Gujarat University is to construct a biogas plant to be fed with kitchen waste from nearby residential colonies, hotels and restaurants on its campus in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, as Ahmedabad Mirror reported. The waste to be…

Waste to Energy
Update on Vadodara WtE project

Update on Vadodara WtE project

As was stated by APN Live, the WtE project at Vadodara (state of Gujarat), which had first been discussed in 2014, seems to be nearing completion. Reportedly, the Indian Prime Mister himself will inaugurate the…

Waste to Energy
More WtE capacities for the State of Gujarat

More WtE capacities for the State of Gujarat

The Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC) in Ahmedabad plans to upgrade its WtE facilities to generate 45 MW of power from 3,000 daily tons of garbage. According to the AMC, the civic body of Ahmedabad has…

Biogas
Commissioning of Raikot AD plant

Commissioning of Raikot AD plant

A new 5 t/d biogas plant is due to start operations in Rajkot, Gujarat, on 23rd March. Building works are completed and testing period has already been finalized. The facility had been developed by Rajkot…

Waste to Energy
WtE plant to be built in Jamnagar

WtE plant to be built in Jamnagar

State officials have given their consent for the construction of a INR 75 million WtE project in the town of Jamnagar, Gujarat. This was reported by The Times of India. The facility should process up…

Maersk to start recycling container ships in Alang

Conglomerate company Maersk Group has announced that it will send its first two container ships to the Alang ship breaking site in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, this month. The ships Maersk Wyoming and Maersk Georgia will both…

Gujarat announces new WtE policy

The Indian state of Gujarat has announced a new policy to promote WtE solutions. Under the Gujarat Waste-To-Energy Policy 2016, urban local bodies (ULBs) will be required to provide land at a token leasing rate…

Rajkot WtE plant to be commissioned by late 2016

According to officials of the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC), the WtE plant currently being developed in Nakrawadi could be operational by the end of 2016. As reported by The Times of India, the project is…

Finnish company to sign MoU for WtE plant in Vadodara

Several companies from Finland are planning to set up animal waste management, solid waste management and sewage treatment plants in Vadodara, Gujarat. A group of delegates from Finland are going to sign a MoU with…