Electroplaters Form Industrial Park

The Coimbatore District Electroplaters’ Association has formed an industrial park on 10 acres at Kurumbapalayam, near Koilpalayam here. Its president S. Balakrishnan told The Hindu that of its 80 members, 69 would start units at the park. Most of these were small and tiny units that undertook surface coating of components for larger engineering units. The park would have new projects, shifting of some of the existing units and ventures by electroplating equipment manufacturers and chemical traders.

The participants had invested about Rs. 10 crore totally

The participants had invested about Rs. 10 crore totally (including land and building) and established common facilities such as roads, drainage pipes and streetlights. Nearly 90 per cent works were over for individual buildings. All of them would go in for individual effluent treatment plant since electroplating was classified as highly polluting units. They had also applied for electricity connection and were expecting a separate sub-station to cater to their power needs.

The effluent treatment plants would be established by the end of next month. And, power supply was likely to be provided in two or three months. “All these works are expected to get over by the end of June and the units will start functioning at the parks after that,” he said. Initially, about 35 units would start operations at the park. The monthly turnover from these units would be over Rs. 10 lakhs.

The association had earmarked space for sludge storage, vehicle parking and laboratory too. Though the association initially proposed to establish a common effluent treatment plant, it later decided that the units would have individual plants. The units had adopted a cluster approach to establish these common facilities. The association was now exploring various avenues to obtain assistance from the State and Central Governments for this project.

31.03.2008.

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