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Mahindra Intertrade and MSTC partner to set up India’s first auto shredding facility

Mahindra Intertrade  to set - up Auto-shredding facility

Mahindra Intertrade has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with MSTC (a Government of India enterprise formerly known as Metal Scrap Trading Corporation). The MoU will see the companies undertake a joint initiative to set up India’s first auto shredding facility.

Auto-shredding in India is largely an unorganized activity with vehicles long past their usable life still in use, especially in rural and semi-urban India. Older vehicles are currently dismantled in an unscientific manner, hazardous to the environment. The extent to which the vehicle is recycled is also very minimal, with most vehicular residue making its way into landfills.The proposed facility will be equipped with a fully automated end-of-life vehicle recycling equipment and will be India’s first such facility.

Given the new stricter norms related to road worthiness of automobiles, a huge number of vehicles are expected to come under the end-of-life category in India. This initiative will not only revolutionize the way automotive scrap is generated and procured in India, but will also help reduce dependence on imports, providing steel mills with a one-stop solution for all their metal scrap related needs.

Sumit Issar, Managing Director, Mahindra Intertrade, said that their study indicated that recycling not only saves energy costs but also minimizes the need for other resources as every tonne of new steel manufactured from scrap steel saves a substantial amount of iron ore, coal and limestone. He further went on to add that if India focuses on scrapping old automobiles, it can recover significant amounts of steel scrap, aluminium scrap, plastic and rubber.

Speaking on the occasion S. K. Tripathi, Chairman & Managing Director, MSTC Ltd. said, “We are delighted to partner with Mahindra Intertrade for this industry first initiative. MSTC is always looking at innovative ways to recycle scrap and protect the environment and this facility will help to participate inthe emission targets which India has promised to fulfil via the COP 21 Emission Treaty.”

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