Ducon to supply pollution control systems to Wienerberger AG's Indian arm

Ducon Technologies India (DTIPL), provider of engineered equipment and systems for environmental control, will supply flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems for Wienerberger’s ceramic products manufacturing facility at Kunigal, Karnataka. 

Wienerberger India, which is a wholly owned subsidiary Wienerberger AG (the world's largest producer of ceramic building products), currently uses pet coke as its fuel for its Karnataka plant. The company has now decided to control suspended particulate matter (SPM) & sulphur dioxide (SO2) emanating from its plant to comply with the present emission norms. 

To enable this transition, DTIPL will install Ducon’s proprietary dry FGD systems to remove SPM and other toxic components. DTIPL has already commenced the engineering process and is expected to establish this facility within the contractual execution period which is in FY17.

Aron Govil, chairman of DTIPL and Ducon Infratechnologies, commented, “We are happy to partner with Wienerberger in India in their decision. With our established proprietary technology and execution capabilities in FGD, we should be able to execute this contract on the committed lines.”

India on one side should maintain its economic growth, and on the other hand, it needs to make sure that the growth does not come at the cost of pollution or environmental damage. Thus, the growing electricity requirement along with increasing dependency on coal & oil for power generation is expected to boost the Indian market demand for FGD system over the next couple of years. As per the new norms by Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEF) in December 2015, the coal based thermal power plants must reduce sulfur dioxide to 7.3 kg/Mwh and nitrogen oxide to 4.8 kg/MWh to help improve the ambient air quality in the country.

This, Ducon believes, will result in increase in demand for its proprietary dry FGD system, which generates a dry waste product that is easier to dispose and, thus, ensuring an end to end solution. “India offers a tremendous potential for FGD systems given its higher dependency on coal and oil for power generation and the changing regime towards pollution control,” stated Govil.

Started in 2005, DTIPL is an affiliate of Ducon Technologies Inc (DTI) which is an established global player since 1938. DTI is a world leader in providing the most advanced and custom engineered equipment and systems for environmental control, material handling, waste incineration, and power transmission for a wide variety of industries including power, refineries, cement, pulp & paper, glass, biomass, food, steel, mining & incineration.