Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin opened the mill expansion project at the unit-II of Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd in Mondipatti, which cost an estimated $1,385 crore.
The mill expansion plan includes the installation of a 400 tpd (tonnes per day) chemical hardwood pulp mill, a chemical recovery boiler, evaporator, a 20 MW turbo generator, and other auxiliary equipment, including a water effluent treatment system.
Earlier, accompanied by State Ministers K. N. Nehru, Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, Collector M. Pradeep Kumar and others, Stalin visited the plant and inspected its functioning.
The unit-II of the TNPL plan was inaugurated in 2016. It subsequently unveiled a plan to expand its capacity at a cost of ₹2520 crore in two phases. Of it, the first phase of mill expansion plan has been completed at an estimate of ₹1,385 crore.
