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Hindustan Newsprint
Limited (HNL)
PO : Newsprint Nagar, Mavellor,
District : Kottayam
State : Kerala
Pin 686 616
Nearest Airport |
Kochi (70 kms.) |
Nearest Railway
Station |
Piravam Road, (Southern
Railway) |
Product |
Newsprint |
Annual Installed
Capacity |
1,00,000 tonnes |
Raw Material |
Reeds, Bamboo, Eucalyptus, Acaci |
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Performance Highlights
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HNL has a consistent record of full
capacity production and surplus generation for over a decade now. The quality of its
product is at par with the best in the global market. As a responsible corporate citizen,
the Mill has been a catalyst for socio-economic growth of the people in the area. Some of
its recent achievements are :
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Chosen as "Nodal Newsprint
Mill" by Network for Industrial Environment Management (NIEM) for Asia-Pacific
region. |
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Ranked fourth (2 Leaves) in the first
ever Green Rating for environmental and forestry performance among the Large Pulp &
Paper Industry units in the Country. |
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Shram-Shri Award won by its employee
Shri S M Basha. He is the first recipient of the award from Kerala and also the first in
the Indian Pulp and Paper Industry. The award was given away by the Prime Minister on
24.2.2001. |
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Chosen for Mini-Ratna Category I Status among the PSEs. |
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Kerala State Award for Energy Conservation during
1997-98 & 1999-2000. |
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Achieved Zero
stock consecutively during
the last 4 years. |
Location :
HNL is
located at Mavellore, a picturesque village by the side of the river Muvattuphza on 725
acres of land. It is very close to the Piravam Road railway station. The Mill is almost
equidistant from Kottayam (32 km) and Ernakulam (34.5 Km).
Technology :
HNL is the first mill in India to
produce newsprint with eucalyptus wood. Newsprint in HNL is produced
with 55% chemi-mechanical pulp
30% and 15% chemical
pulp. HNL installed its modern De-inking Plant in
2002. Voith GMBH machine can
run at the speed of 750 meters / minute and can produce 44 to 54 GSM paper on the trim
width of 6.8 meters.
Manpower : 1036
including other apprentices (as on 01.04.2009)
Annual Production for
the past five years (in tonnes) :
2004-2005 |
2005-2006 |
2006-2007 |
2007-2008 |
2008-2009 |
1,12,202
MT |
1,13,050
MT |
1,12,565
MT |
1,16,111
MT |
1,08,005
MT |
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