After harvesting of pulp-wood large amount of twigs, lops & tops and barks are left in the field. Removing these agricultural wastes from field involves lot of cost to farmers and if they put them in fire, it causes not only damage to environment but also to farm itself. To add an additional income to the farmers, the rejected waste materials of pulp wood i.e; twigs, lops & tops and barks are collected from the farmer’s field for biomass fuel production by our company. Large amount of twigs, lops, tops and barks are left in the agricultural field after harvesting pulp woods from Casuarina and Eucalyptus trees are collected using our company wood-chippers which can be operated using any tractor. Our wood chippers are capable of loading chipped woods directly to trucks. In order to generate an additional income to the farmers, our company collects these rejected materials after extraction of pulp wood from the farmer’s field and pulverize the same and sends to the Sugar Mills as fuels, in addition to our company owned briquettes unit at Pudukkottai.
Biomass fuel production unit has been established at SIPCOT, Pudukkottai . In Pudukkottai, Sivagangai and Tanjavoor districts, about 200 MT of agricultural waste materials per day like lop & tops, twigs and bark which are left at the field itself after removal of pulp wood. Similarly, about 50 MT of groundnut shell are processed in a day and kept as heap as a waste material in ground nut factories in Pudukkottai districts. So our company is using above said waste rejected materials for this biomass fuel production such as biomass briquettes, pellets and wood chips @ 150 MT per day to meet the fuel requirement of industries in South India as bio fuels which is substitute to coal since most of the industries are facing a wider shortage of coal due to cost of fuel and environmental compliance.
