Production hit at TNPL’s Karur plant due to water shortage
As the people of Tamil Nadu brace themselves for the state’s worst drought, Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers (TNPL) announced the shutdown of one of its paper machines at their Karur plant due to water shortage.
30 Mar 2017 | 22572 Views | By Sriraam Selvam
The company has informed the BSE that it stopped production from its Paper Machine II at the printing and writing paper unit on Tuesday. Production will resume once water is available.
The stoppage will mean a production loss of about 400 tonnes a day.
Under normal conditions the output from the Karur Plant is about 1,150 tonnes a day with a total annual capacity of about 4 lakh tonnes. The production will now drop to about 750 tonnes a day.
TNPL has a total annual production capacity of 6 lakh tonnes spread across two manufacturing facilities, including a packaging board plant of 2 lakh tonnes a year.