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NPCS Newsletter - Issue 33
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NPCS Newsletter - Issue 33
Project Profiles of below projects can be viewed/ downloaded from http://www.niir.org/profiles/
Cashew was introduced in India by the Portuguese four centuries ago mainly to prevent soil erosion. Cashew ranks second among the nine tree nuts which figure prominently in international trade circles, first being Almond. The cashew adapts to various types of soils and climatic conditions and is hardy and draught resistant tree. Cashew is held with great esteem in many customs and cultures. Three main cashew products are traded on the international market - raw nuts, cashew kernels and cashew nut shell liquid (CNSL). A fourth product - the cashew apple is generally processed and consumed locally.
India is the largest producer and exporter of cashew kernels in the world. Over 65 per cent of the world export of cashew kernels is accounted for by India. Indian cashews are consumed in as many as 60 countries all over the world. The Indian cashew kernel is well acclaimed for its good quality, taste and appearance. Sometimes cashew nuts are called “nature's vitamin pill,” The market for both the raw cashew as well as cashew kernel is controlled by wholesalers who center on the supply chain in a coordinated and organized fashion. The processing units procure major portion of raw cashew nuts through the traders. The farmers are not allowed to sell directly to the processing units by these traders. Thus, Cashew Processing is a good project for entrepreneurs to invest.
Electronic wastes, "e-waste", "e-scrap", or "Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment" ("WEEE") is a description of surplus, obsolete, broken or discarded electrical or electronic devices. Technically, electronic "waste" is the component which is dumped or disposed or discarded rather than recycled, including residue from reuse and recycling operations.Electronic Waste – or e-waste – is the term used to describe old, end-of-life electronic appliances such as computers, laptops, TVs, DVD players, mobile phones, mp3 players etc. which have been disposed of by their original users.
WEEE has been identified as one of the fastest growing sources of waste in the India, and is estimated to be increasing by 16-28 per cent every five years. Within each sector a complex set of heterogeneous secondary wastes is created. Although treatment requirements are complicated, the sources from any one sector possess many common characteristics. However, there exist huge variations in the nature of electronic wastes between sectors, and treatment regimes appropriate for one cannot be readily transferred to another. As a whole E–Waste Recycling is a good project for entrepreneurs for investment.
International trade is the exchange of goods and services across national boundaries. It is the most traditional form of international business activity and has played a major role in shaping world history. It is also the first type of foreign business operation undertaken by most companies because importing or exporting requires the least commitment of, and risk to, the company’s resources. International trade allows manufacturers and distributors to seek out products, services, and components produced in foreign countries. Companies acquire them because of cost advantages or in order to learn about advanced technical methods used abroad; for example, methods that help reduce the cost of production lower prices and in turn, induce more consumption thus producing increased profit. Trade also enables firms to acquire resources that are not available at home. Besides providing consumers with a variety of goods and services, international trade increases incomes and employment.
International trade in services has grown over the past decade at an annual rate of about 18 percent compared to that of approximately 9 percent for merchandise trade. In some countries, such as Panama and the Netherlands, services account for about 40 percent or more of total merchandise trade. Typical service exports include transportation, tourism, banking, advertising, construction, retailing, and mass communication. As a whole establishing Trading Business is one of the project which has good prospect for the entrepreneurs to invest.
Roller Flour Mill (with Color Sorter)
Wheat is an annual grass belonging to the Poaceae (Gramineae) family, and represents one of the world’s most important field crops. In contrast to the other cereal grains, wheat possess the unique gluten proteins capable of forming the fully visco-elastic dough required to produce pasta, noodles and leavened baked products, especially bread. Additionally, wheat and wheat derivatives such as wheat malt, flour and starch are commonly used as adjuncts in the brewing industry.
The roller flour milling industry is the largest organized segment for utilization of wheat in the country. The Indian roller flour milling industry is essentially small-scale and highly fragmented, with no major group having share of more than two per cent of the national capacity. For the last 10 years, roller mill owners have been increasingly targeting the market for packaged branded atta. Traditionally, Indian families store wheat at home and take 10 to 15 kilograms (kg) at a time to chakkis for custom milling. In the largest cities, only 10% to 30% of families still take wheat to chakkis. Thus, it is a good project for entrepreneurs to invest.
The term “hydrated lime” is widely used to describe a powdered calcium hydroxide product made by reacting quicklime with a controlled excess of water. The product is essentially dry and generally contains less than 1% of unreacted water. The process is called “hydration” and should be differentiated from “slaking” which involves the production of a dispersion of calcium hydroxide in water. However, the expression “slaked lime” is used as a generic term for hydrated lime, milk of lime and lime putty. An estimated 10 to 15% of the quicklime produced in developed countries is converted in to hydrated lime and the percentage may be higher in countries which do not have a large steel industry.
Hydrated lime is generally supplied to small users in paper sacks or intermediate bulk containers of 0.5 or 1 ton capacity. Where larger amounts are used, the product is delivered in air pressure discharge vehicles (APDVs). Its handling properties, however, do not generally because problems, providing its moisture content are less than 2 % and normal powder handling techniques are used. Hydrated lime absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, forming calcium carbonate and water. It should, therefore, be stored in dry, draught-free conditions.Due to demand growth, Hydrated Lime is a good project for entrepreneurs to invest.
Cellulose acetate is one of the oldest manmade macromolecules used extensively in the textile and polymer industries. It has an inherent advantage in that the starting material, cellulose, is a renewable natural resource. The current applications of cellulose acetate include textiles, cigarette tow, lacquers, cellulose films, and packaging. Since it is nontoxic, cellulose acetate is widely used in food packaging.Cellulose acetate has been produced from both cotton and wood pulp.Cellulose acetate is a semi-synthetic polymer obtained through the esterification of acetic acid with cellulose that is a natural polymer. Cellulose acetates with different properties are obtained depending on the esterification degree (degree of substitution).
Textile applications accounted for nearly 8% of world consumption of cellulose acetate fibers in 2011; demand growth during 2011–2016 is forecast at an average annual rate of approximately 1.2%. Any entrepreneurs venture into this field will be successful.
Solid Wood Finger Jointed Boards from Pine Wood
A finger joint or comb joint is a woodworking joint made by cutting a set of complementary rectangular cuts in two pieces of wood, which are then glued. These are long tapered fingers that interlock to join two pieces lengthwise as in commercial moulding or side by side in panels. It can be used to make joinery material, beams, table tops, parquet flooring, Cabinet shutters, wardrobe panels, Stave panels and Staircase panels. Finger Jointed Laminated Boards offer a solution to the increasing shortage of solid timber panels.
Indian particle board and plywood industry dates back to the First World War. It has come a long way having grown nearly six-fold since its inception. The large producers account for 15% of the total production, producing some 38 mn sqm of plywood and blockboards. The Indian market for particle board and plywood is estimated in value terms, at over Rs 37 bn. Of the total market, particle board including medium density fibreboard (MDF board) accounts for nearly a quarter of the market. Nearly 85% of the particle board is supplied by the organized sector. Western India has emerged as the leader in the particle board segment. As a whole Solid Wood Finger Jointed Boards is one of the project which has good prospect for the entrepreneurs to invest.
(R.O., Boiler and Cooling Tower)
Water treatment describes industrial-scale processes that make water more acceptable for an end-use, which may be drinking, industrial, or medical. Water treatment is unlike small-scale water sterilization that campers and other people in wilderness areas practice. Water treatment should remove existing water contaminants or so reduce their concentration that their water becomes fit for its desired end-use, which may be safely returning used water to the environment.
The Indian boiler water treatment chemicals market so far has been fragmented but in recent times it showed sign of consolidation, as about 70% of the market share is being accounted by top 6 players. The Indian boiler water treatment chemicals market will grow at the CAGR of 8.2% till 2018, in terms of revenues. The report also forebodes that Nalco- India is going to maintain its lead till 2018 with over 25% market share. The next major segment in India would be the water chemicals segment with potential for a range of chemicals for conserving this critical resource. The demand for water is likely to grow substantially, putting pressure on supply of water for irrigation, drinking and industrial usage. The need to augment supply of water requires both conservation efforts to minimize wastage as well as greater amount of recycling. This is where water chemicals will play a vital role.Thus, it is a good project for entrepreneurs to invest due to growing demand.
A power cable is an assembly of two or more electrical conductors, usually held together with an overall sheath. The assembly is used for transmission of electrical power. Power cables may be installed as permanent wiring within buildings, buried in the ground, run overhead, or exposed. Cables consist of three major components: conductors, insulation, and protective jacket. The makeup of individual cables varies according to application. Power cables use stranded copper or aluminium conductors, although small power cables may use solid conductors. Copper has a higher conductivity than aluminium.
The market is divided into different segments in terms of product variation. The basic division is between cables and conductors. Cables are either power cables or control cables. Power cables supply energy at voltages up to 230 KV. Control cables are low voltage cables (up to 0.6 KV) used to transmit control signals in switch boards. The conducting material can be copper or aluminium with insulating material, PVC, XLPE, elastomers or paper.Power cable industry in India is eyeing an estimated Rs 50 bn market to unfold.The major players in the organized industry are: Cable Corporation of India, Universal Cables, Fort Gloster, Industrial Cables, Uniflex Cables, RPG Cables, Finolex Cables, Paramount and Hindustan Vidyut Products. Due to demand growth, it is a good project for entrepreneurs to invest & any entrepreneurs venture into this field will be successful.
A wire or combination or wires not insulated from one another, suitable for carrying a single electric current is called conductor. The term conductor is not to include a combination of conductors insulated from one another, which would be suitable for carrying several different electric currents. Stranded Conductor is a conductor composed of a group of wires or any combination of group of wires. The wires in a stranded conductor are usually twisted or braided together. Stranded aluminium and A.C.S.R. and coming in place of copper. Internal greasing of conductors, now the generally accepted practice, materially, assists in improving the life, more particularly in coastel and corrosive environments.
Electric equipment industry contributes over 2% of GDP which is projected to increase to about 12% in 2015 according to a study by Frost & Sullivan. During the period, consumption of electrical equipment is estimated to increase from over USD 28 bn now to USD 363 bn, growing at a CAGR of about 30%. It is also expected that during 2010-2015, the Indian equipment manufacturing will grow at 5.5 times the growth rate of global electronic equipment production. The Eleventh Plan has targeted a capacity addition of 78,570 MW. Due to demand growth, it is a good project for entrepreneurs to invest & any entrepreneurs venture into this field will be successful.
The word Cenosphere is derived from two Greek words Kens (hollow) and Sphaira (sphere). Cenospheres are light weight, inert hollow sphere comprising largely of silica & alumina and filled with air or inert gas. Cenospheres are a naturally occurring by product of the burning process of pulverized coal-fired boilers. Cenospheres are formed from coal combustion ash when it is in a molten state. Flowing with the combustion gas stream, the temperature of the molten particles is rapidly quenched, thereby ‘freezing in’ a spherical shape. Cenospheres are unique free flowing powders composed of hard shelled, hollow, minute spheres. A small proportion of the pulverized fuel ash (PFA) produced from the combustion of coal in power stations is formed as Cenospheres.
Cenosphere are a by-product from coal ash. These hollow light weight spheres are produced around the world. Most all of the Cenosphere produced today are recovered from ash ponds or lagoons typically onsite at the coal fired power plant. Fly ash, or the residue from coal after combustion, has been a long-standing challenge for the Indian power sector, which is dominated by coal. Currently, 53 per cent of the total installed power capacity in the country is based on coal. Given that Indian coal has a very high ash content, in the range of 35 to 45 percent, the country currently generates approximately 160 million tones of fly ash, of which only 80 million tones is being utilized. Thus, cenosphere is a good project for entrepreneurs to invest.
Ready to Eat Food (Retort Packing)
India has made lot of progress in agriculture & food sectors since independence in terms of growth in output, yields and processing. It has gone through a green revolution, a white revolution, a yellow revolution and a blue revolution. The retort processed foods do not require rehydration or cooking and can be consumed straight from the pouch with or without pre-warming, depending upon the requirement of the users and the weather conditions. Some of the mouth-watering dishes in retort pouches include sooji halwa, upma, chicken curry, mutton curry, fish curry, chicken madras, chicken kurma, rajma masala, palak paneer, dal makhni, mutter paneer, potato-peas, mutter mushroom, vegetable pulav chicken pulav, and mutton pulav, etc.
The size of the processed food market is estimated to be over Rs 110 bn and is growing at 10 to 15% per annum. The Rs 4000-bn food market in India has been growing at the rate of 6.5% a year. The Indian middle class spends an estimated around Rs 700 bn annually on food and groceries alone. The ready-to-eat segment is growing faster as technology is improving and so is the lifestyle of the people. Thus, Ready to Eat Food is a good project for entrepreneurs to invest.
Power Transformers are used in Distribution Network so directly connected to the consumer so load fluctuations are very high. these are not loaded fully at all time so iron losses takes place 24hr a day and cu losses takes place based on load cycle. The specific weight is more i.e. (iron weight)/ (cu weight). Average loads are about only 75% of full load and these are designed in such a way that max efficiency occurs at 75% of full load. As these are time dependent the all day efficiency is defined in order to calculate the efficiency.
Electric equipment industry contributes over 2% of GDP which is projected to increase to about 12% in 2015 according to a study by Frost & Sullivan. During the period, consumption of electrical equipment is estimated to increase from over USD 28 bn now to USD 363 bn, growing at a CAGR of about 30%. It is also expected that during 2010-2015, the Indian equipment manufacturing will grow at 5.5 times the growth rate of global electronic equipment production. The growth of the industry is directly related to the development of power generation and distribution. The electrical industry has been showing signs of recovery after poor performance in the recent years. The domestic electrical industry, which includes equipment for generation, transmission, distribution and use of power in industrial units, constitutes a major part of the electrical products. As a whole it is a good project for entrepreneurs for investment.
Jatropha Plantation & Oil Extraction
Jatropha or physic nut (Jatropha curcas) is one of 150 Jatropha species in the family of the Euphorbiaceae. It is an oilseed crop that grows well on marginal and semi-arid lands. Jatropha has been identified as one of the most promising feedstock for large-scale biodiesel production in India, where nearly 64 million hectares of land is classified as wasteland or uncultivated land. It is also particularly well suited for fuel use at the small-scale or village level. To date; there has been a substantial amount of variability in yield data for the plant, which can be attributed to differences in germplasm quality, plantation practices, and climatic conditions.
Jatropha is a main biodiesel crop for India and it is proposed to use only marginal or wastelands for biodiesel plantation. Thus, the yields are likely to be on the lower end of the range and the land required could be anywhere up to 21 Mha. The planning commission has set a target of raising Jatropha plantations on an area of about 11 Mha by 2020, which can produce 7.3 Mt of biodiesel, which can meet only 21% of projected biodiesel demand of 2020-high scenario (33.5Mt) whereas it can meet about 57% of the biodiesel demand under 2020-low scenario. Any entrepreneurs venture into this field will be successful.
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