Team News Riveting
Rourkela, February 7
Brainstorming sessions, technical talks, exchange of ideas and best practices marked the 2-day long International Conference on ‘Reducing Carbon Footprint in metal industries’ held at SAIL, Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) on Friday and Saturday.
The event was organised by Indian Institute of Metals, Rourkela Chapter in association with SAIL, Rourkela Steel Plant and NIT, Rourkela.
Dr. Sanak Mishra, Former Managing Director, Rourkela Steel Plant chaired the valedictory function held at Gopabandhu Auditorium. S R Suryawanshi, ED(Works), Dr Dhiren Panda, EVP, JSW Steel, Manoranjan Ram, VP, Sales and Marketing, Danieli India and Prof. Manas Paliwal, IIT, Kharagpur were also present on the dais.
It is worth mentioning here that more than 300 persons from 39 industrial organisations including Tata Steel, JSW Steel, JSPL, Hindalco and various units of SAIL as well as 7 Academic and Research Institutes had taken part in the conference. In the 10 technical sessions organised during the conference, 35 research papers were presented and various aspects of Reducing Carbon footprint in the metal industries were discussed.
In his address, Dr. Sanak Mishra highlighted the importance of industrialisation, urbanisation as well as reducing emissions. “Steel industry has a great future in India, as the per capital steel consumption in the country is very low. We however have to take cognizance of carbon footprint as well as resources like water, power and good quality raw material,” he underscored.
The other dignitaries and participants also expressed their views on the occasion. Earlier Atish Chandra Sarkar, CGM(Quality) welcomed the gathering and presented a consolidated report on the conference. Debabrata Dutta, CGM (HSMs) proposed a formal vote of thanks.
