Piramal Glass opens Rs.25mn Effluent Treatment Plant
Piramal Glass Ceylon PLC (PGC) opened its Rs.25 million, new high capacity Effluent Treatment Plant ( ETP ) last Friday.
The ETP plant is one such venture that ensures the preservation of water by recycling, whilst making sure that the water let out to the environment does not harm the environment and the surrounding community. The Company has spent over Rs.25 Million on this project. With the installation of this plant the company will be recycling over 750 cubic meters per day of its process water requirement in the manufacture of it’s glass bottles .
Inherently PGC’s bottle manufacturing is an environmentfriendly process. Broken Glass (known as “Cullet” in the glass industry) is also used as a raw material in the manufacturing process. Piramal Glass Ceylon annually consumes almost 20,000 tons of broken glass collected from all parts of the country at a cost of over LKR.100 Million. The Company collects all types of Cullet to help people get rid of this discarded material from their homes and stores them in its premises till recycled.
The Company had the privilege of coming under the umbrella of t he BOI since signing the agreement in July 2006. The Plant was commissioned in December 2007 with an investment of over USD $40 Million. The plant has the capacity to produce 250 tons of glass per day and in terms of bottles over 225 million bottles per year.
PGC is currently fulfilling the entire Country’s requirement of Glass Bottles by selling almost 75% of it’s capacity in the local market, whilst exporting the balance to niche markets, to the tune of 10 Million USD worth of glass containers annually in different parts of the globe.
PGC supplies bottles as packaging materials to industries such as Pharmaceutical, Aerated Water, Food & Beverage, Liquor, Wine , Agro Chemicals and Cosmetics.