On Monday PPCB conducted an interactive workshop with the induction furnace units operating in district Ludhiana, wherein the technical experts gave a presentation describing the reuse of air pollution dust generated from these units. The workshop was attended by more than 50 industrialists including K.K. Garg, President All India Induction Furnace Association, Pardeep Gupta, Chief Engineer, PPCB, Ludhiana along with other senior officers.

While interacting with industrialists, Gupta highlighted the need of the hour to switch over to cleaner technologies and also informed that till now the dust collected by induction furnace units through their control devices was being disposed off through the hazardous waste facility at Nimbua at about Rs. 8000 per ton, but now the same dust will be got lifted by Madhav Alloys at a cost of about Rs. 1000 per ton thus effecting a saving of about 80% in expenditure as well as major steps towards control of pollution in Ludhiana. Gupta also said that plant of Madhav Alloys has been approved by the Central Pollution Control Board as well as PPCB.