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Most mill sustainability pages are a list of aspirations. This one is a list of what is installed at Nalagarh — a boiler fired on rice husk, an effluent treatment plant, solar on the roofs — because equipment is what an auditor can stand in front of and what a buyer's compliance team will ask to see.
01 · Steam
The dye house and the finishing range run on steam, and steam is where most of a mill’s heat goes. Two eight-tonne boilers raise it, both fired on rice husk — what is left when rice is milled — at around thirty-one tonnes a day between them.
Husk is a crop by-product rather than a fuel taken out of the ground. It is grown, not mined, and the heat behind every dyed and finished towel comes from it.
02 · Water
Dyeing is where a textile mill’s footprint is heaviest, and where buyers look hardest. Every litre that leaves the dye house goes through our own effluent treatment plant, on site, before it is discharged.
Water comes in from our own borewell, so both ends of the cycle — what we draw and what we return — are ours to measure and answer for. The figures below are not ours, though. They are the State Pollution Control Board’s, from a sample its own officer took at our final outlet.
| Parameter | Result | Permissible limit |
|---|---|---|
| BOD at 27°C, 3 days | 4.6 mg/L | 30 |
| COD | 60 mg/L | 250 |
| Total suspended solids | 40 mg/L | 100 |
| Total dissolved solids | 698 mg/L | 2,100 |
| pH at 25°C | 8.03 | 6.5–8.5 |
| Oil and grease | Below detectable limit | 10 |
| Sulphide | Below detectable limit | 2 |
| Total chromium | Not detected | 2 |
| Phenolic compounds | 0 mg/L | 1 |
| Ammoniacal nitrogen | 0 mg/L | 50 |
Sampled 3 September 2026 at the final outlet of the ETP by an officer of the H.P. State Pollution Control Board, and analysed by the Board’s own laboratory. Report available on request.
Part of the treated water is put through a reverse-osmosis plant and returned to the process rather than discharged. The ETP makes the water safe to release; the RO plant makes some of it worth keeping.
03 · Power
Part of the plant’s electricity is generated by solar panels on its own sheds. The rest comes from the grid.
1,368 kilowatts installed, carrying about a fifth of everything the plant draws.
04 · Transport
The company runs electric vehicles at Nalagarh and charges them from its own points, off the same roofs that carry the solar. A small thing beside a boiler and an array, and the one a visitor actually sees arriving.
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