TNPL is first Indian firm to receive RISI award

The PPI Award 2011 in Brussels, organised by Resource Information Systems Inc (RISI), was held on 15 November 2011.

TNPL received this award for the Environmental Strategy of the Year - Mill out of 12 categories.

S V Subrahmanyam, general manager TNPL, said: "TNPL follows a philosophy of improving its operation by better environmental management. Through multi-year projects, water consumption per metric tonne of paper was reduced by 40% from 2007 to 2011. Likewise another project resulted in a 39% decrease of discharges."

TNPL produces newsprint; printing and writing paper using bagasse, as primary raw material. TNPL completed the expansion plan during December 2010 to increase the capacity to 4,00,000 tonne per year.