04/02/2009 The Hindu Business Line
The Indian automobile industry is warming up to the world-wide trend of using materials that can be re-cycled, in the production of vehicles. The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), the industry body of vehicle makers, is starting an experimental project on recycling of two-wheelers in Chennai
Given 75 per cent of vehicles in India are two-wheelers, we are emphasising recycling. We are launching a recycling programme in India and undertaking research to see how we can re-use the material used in two-wheelers, Mr Dilip Chenoy, Director General, SIAM, told Business Line.
We have just got the approval from the Ministry of Heavy Industry. The demonstration project is to come up at the National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project (NATRIP) facility at Oragadam near Chennai. The project will start in two months, he said. Recycling the materials used in automobile firms has become an environmentally relevant topic as the disposal of end-of-life vehicles has cast a burden across the world. The recycling of cars is quite popular and the European Commission has made it mandatory that 85 per cent of the materials used in automobile manufacturing should be recyclable.
In India, Maruti Suzuki said that it would meet the European Unions end of life (ELV) recycling standards by 2010. The demonstration pilot project is to understand the issues involved in recycling two-wheelers. Also, when we are go for electric two-wheelers how do we address the issue of recycling the batteries, and things like that, said Mr Chenoy. We want to make it an economically viable project, he said.
The project is being led by Captain N.S. Mohan Ram of TVS Motor Company. About the current level of recycling, Mr Chenoy said It is not done in an organised manner. Some of the vehicle parts find their way to the replacement market
The Indian automobile industry is warming up to the world-wide trend of using materials that can be re-cycled, in the production of vehicles. The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), the industry body of vehicle makers, is starting an experimental project on recycling of two-wheelers in Chennai
Given 75 per cent of vehicles in India are two-wheelers, we are emphasising recycling. We are launching a recycling programme in India and undertaking research to see how we can re-use the material used in two-wheelers, Mr Dilip Chenoy, Director General, SIAM, told Business Line.
We have just got the approval from the Ministry of Heavy Industry. The demonstration project is to come up at the National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project (NATRIP) facility at Oragadam near Chennai. The project will start in two months, he said. Recycling the materials used in automobile firms has become an environmentally relevant topic as the disposal of end-of-life vehicles has cast a burden across the world. The recycling of cars is quite popular and the European Commission has made it mandatory that 85 per cent of the materials used in automobile manufacturing should be recyclable.
In India, Maruti Suzuki said that it would meet the European Unions end of life (ELV) recycling standards by 2010. The demonstration pilot project is to understand the issues involved in recycling two-wheelers. Also, when we are go for electric two-wheelers how do we address the issue of recycling the batteries, and things like that, said Mr Chenoy. We want to make it an economically viable project, he said.
The project is being led by Captain N.S. Mohan Ram of TVS Motor Company. About the current level of recycling, Mr Chenoy said It is not done in an organised manner. Some of the vehicle parts find their way to the replacement market
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