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COMPANY NEWS
IIT-K PARTNERS WITH PERNOD RICHARD TO DRIVE
INNOVATION IN PLASTICS CIRCULARITY
partnership with the Pernod Ricard India
Foundation launched Advaya – The Plas-
tic Circularity Innovation Launchpad. The
initiative, implemented under Pernod Ri-
card India Foundation's CSR programme,
is designed to accelerate the develop-
ment of technology-driven solutions that
promote circularity in the plastics sector.
Earlier in the day, the Pernod Ricard India
Foundation team met with IIT Kanpur di-
rector Prof Manindra Agrawal, to discuss
the institute's broader vision for sustain-
n a significant step towards advancing sus-
tainable innovation, the Startup Incubation ability and innovation-driven collaborations.
Iand Innovation Centre (SIIC) at IIT Kanpur in Source – TOI
EYANTRAM WASTE MANAGEMENT PVT LTD HAS
SET UP RS. 20CR. RECYCLING PLANT IN VIZAG
ity-based Eyantram Waste Management of high-value recycled metals or materials."
Pvt Ltd has set up an integrated recycling
Cplant this month at the Andhra Pradesh In March this year, CSIR–NML signed an MoU
Medtech Zone (AMTZ) in Visakhapatnam with with the company for the transfer of techno-
an investment of around Rs 20 crore.The new logical know-how to recover saleable products
facility, based on the CSIR–National Metallurgi- from e-waste. "The AMTZ, the office of the prin-
cal Laboratory's technology, will cater to Andhra cipal scientific advisor, and the Vizag Science
Pradesh as well as other states such as Telanga- and Technology Cluster helped us come up with
na, Odisha and Chhattisgarh for recycling medi- the new facility. The technology that we are har-
cal and electronic waste.Ashish Lohia, director nessing at the facility aims at mitigating environ-
of the company, told TOI: "The scrap or e-waste mental pollution by preventing the toxic inlet of
recycling sector is contributing significantly to metals into the soil through sewage or industrial
the country's economy. The e-waste recycling waste," said Lohia.
will generate a new market for precious, non- Source – TOI
ferrous, rare earth metals recovery by gaining
high revenue due to less process cost and gain
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