If the Indian paper industry has to grow exponentially, it must upgrade the quality of its product with one simple input: the increased use of pcc or precipitated calcium carbonate, which is found in abundance in Sirmour district of Himachal Pradesh or continue to face the threat of imported high grade paper at a high cost. This is the contention of a Florida-based scientist Dr.

Proposed pulp and paper plant revives debate on private access to degraded forestland

One of the sites ITC is looking at for its pulp and paper unit is in Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh.

ITC's proposed plant of 200,000 tonnes paper capacity will need 400,000 tonnes of dry wood, for which, in turn, 800,000 tonnes of wet wood (with normal moisture content) are needed.

The fibre of the banana tree is a sustainable resource to manufacture paper

But the banana paper manufacturing process can be made more ecofriendly