Director SAIl inaugurates SIMPRO-2016
On Wednesday International Conference SIMPRO-2016 was inaugurated by SS Mohanty, SAIl Director (Technical) in Presence of AK Tygai, CMD MECON, Warren Garrison, Professor of Carnegie Melon University, Dr DK likhi, CMD MIDHANI, Dr BK Jha, ED(RDCIS). Dr BK Jha welcomed all the delegates. Subsequently Prof. Garrison stressed the need to achieve better properties of steel in order to create future markets and in this endeavor academia has a great role to play. AK Tyagi, CMD (MECON) and Dr DK likhi also addressed the august gathering. In his Presidential address SS Mohanty urged the industry, manufacturers, academia etc. to come together with innovative solutions for cost reduction in Indian Steel Industry.
Foreign team visits CMPDI
In charge of Climate Change Division Falisia S Roose along with Jonnathan Kelafent of US Environmental Agency visited CMPDI on Wednesday. Both president-cum-managing director of CMPDI and Roose are vice-presidents of Global Methane Initiative (GMI). During the inspection, a small discussion took place over the previous achievements of studies which took place for the coalmine methane for Chinakuri Mine of Eastern Coalfields. The inspecting team also visited Geological Museum, CBM lab and Environmental lab along with other laboratories.
First of its kind food processing plant in Ranchi
A fruit and vegetable plant is being set up in Ranchi under complete ownership of National Dairy Development Board at Tikra Toli under Nagri block. This will be first of its kind plant of Jharkhand which has two processing lines – one for freezing fruits and vegetables (IQF) and another for making pulp and concentrates. The IQF line will have a capacity of 5,000 tonnes per year which will primarily include peas produced in the state in abundant. The pulp and concentrates line on the other hand, will have a capacity of 20,000 metric tonnes every year where tomato, mango and other fruit and vegetables will be processed.