Steel major Essar Steel Ltd (ESL) has received the CSE's Green Rating Award for its efforts towards resource use efficiency and steel slag re-use.
Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, and Ms Jayanthi Natarajan, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests, presented The Three Leaves Award to ESL at a function in New Delhi on Monday, according to a company release here on Thursday.
The Three Leaves Award was instituted by the Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE) Green Rating Project (GRP), sponsored by the Union Ministry of Environment & Forests and UNDP, to recognise the green credentials of companies, said Mr Dilip Oommen, Managing Director and CEO, ESL.
The rating assessment is based on two years of research conducted by CSE’s GRP, based on which ESL, Hazira, including its Vizag and Kirandul facilities, stood at number two amongst the 21 top steelmakers. The study found that the Hazira plant had keept water consumption down and reused steel melting slag.
The CSE’s GRP analysed all the top steelmaking plants in India to find out how ‘green and clean’ the sector is and the resources it uses, how much it emits, how it disposes its wastes, and how it deals with issues of local communities. In the case of the iron and steel sector, 21 companies with over 0.5 million tonnes of annual capacity were rated in this programme.
Essar Steel, a 14 MMTPA global producer of steel, is a fully integrated flat carbon steel manufacturer, with a presence in Canada, the US, India and Indonesia.