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   »»  Haat Incinerators bags international orders, manufactures Euro norm compliant machines -- PHARMABIZ.com, Dec 11, 2002

   »»  Three city hospitals get awards for waste disposal -- THE HINDU, Nov 26, 2002

   »»  Incinerator for Tinplate Hospital (A step towards Environment Protection)

   »»  Modern Haat incinerator installed -- SAINIK SAMACHAR, Armed Forces Panorama

   »»  Toxic shock -- THE TIMES OF INDIA, May 21, 2000

   »»  Incinerator installed near IGMC -- HINDUSTAN TIMES,  Nov 2

   »»  Haat Incinerators to unveil new range of waste destructors -- THE FINANCIAL EXPRESS, Jul 18, 1999

   »»  AFCH, model for scientific hospital waste management -- THE HINDU, Jul 19, 1999

   »»  New incinerators launched -- THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, Jul 19, 1999

   »»  New range of incinerators launched -- DECCAN HERALD, Jul 19, 1999

   »»  Incinerators launched for Hospitals -- THE ASIAN AGE, Jul 19, 1999

   »»  Citizens should take care of waste -- THE TIMES OF INDIA, Jul 19, 1999

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Haat Incinerators bags international orders, manufactures Euro norm compliant machines

Haat Incinerators India Pvt. Ltd., an indigenous manufacturer of equipments for handling bio-medical waste, is making its presence felt in the global market. The company is getting orders for installations at medical establishments in Europe, Africa, Mauritius and Libya. It is one of the few companies in the country, which make machines that comply with Euro norms. The range of smokeless and odourless machines has been manufactured using German and UK technology for production of autoclaves and large size incinerator machines.

S Gopalakrishnan, managing director, Haat Incinerators India Pvt. Ltd, told Pharmabiz.com that the company's horizontal-line design and starved air technology that result in very low levels of nitrogen oxide emission - 5 mg/Nm³ as against 450 mg/Nm³ specified by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), sets it apart from other incinerators. "We also offer customised designs for specific applications and the size of incinerators range from 2.5 kg per hour to 8 tons a day burning capacity."

The ISO 9002 Company has nearly 200 installations in India and overseas of which 55 per cent is used for biomedical waste and 45 per cent for industrial waste.

Haat has associated itself with ITS Drilling, Alberdeen, UK for large size incinerators, BIME / HWU, Munich, Germany for autoclaves and had signed a memorandum of understanding with GÖK mbH, Berlin, Germany, for centralized treatment facilities.

Dilip Sundar, divisional manager, marketing Haat Incinerators India said, "Our objective is to design, manufacture and install state-of-the-art waste disposal equipment that is economically viable, easy to operate, with no frequent breakdowns and protect the environment. The machines also do away with downstream equipment like dust collectors, scrubbers and tall chimneys. However to achieve Euro norms gas scrubbing is a must."

Haat Incinerators range of equipment meet and exceed the CPCB norms primarily due to its design, added Gopalakrishnan.

The primary and secondary chambers are housed within the same shell to take care of time, temperature and turbulence. "Conventional incinerator designs do not give the necessary turbulence and results in incomplete combustion," informed Sundar.

Ingenious use of a single burner for both primary and secondary burning, saves on fuel costs. "It is recommended that while buying an incinerator, the operating costs are taken into account over a period of five years to arrive at the actual costs, since most of the conventional incinerators consume a lot of fuel and electricity resulting in high operating costs, even if initial costs are less," said Gopalakrishnan.

Haat Incinerators can handle all kinds of waste generated by hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, blood banks, offices, factories, residential apartments, defence establishments, banks, industries, pharmaceutical companies, effluent treatment plants etc. There are also special trash destructors, which use no fuel or electricity for free-burning wastes.

The equipment range includes PD and GD Range of biomedical waste incinerators, LD, MD, HD trash destructors, SD security destructors, chimney (30 mtrs height - both self and guy rope supported), scrubbers (wet venturi, packed tower), heat recovery systems, autoclaves for biomedical waste disinfections, shredders for shredding plastic waste of different capacities and needle destroyer.

The major clientele are Apollo Hospitals Group, Sri Sathya Sai Trust Hospitals, Himachal Pradesh Govt. Hospitals, Port Trust Hospitals, Sankara Nethralaya, Defence Hospitals, Christian Hospital Association of India, G. Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial Hospital (Coimbatore), Sacred Heart Mission Hospital, Amala Cancer Hospital, Bishop Alapatt Mission Hospital. The installations in Karnataka are at Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences, Mallya Hospital, Manipal Hospital, Gunasheela Nursing Home, Command Air Force Hospital, Kidwai Institute of Oncology, St. John's Medical College Hospital, Sanjay Gandhi Accident Relief Hospital, Ramakrishna Nursing and Ambedkar Medical College.

The company imparts extensive training on Bio-Medical Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 1998 to ensure proper segregation, collection, storage, handling and treatment of bio-medical waste. It conducts waste audits to determine the type and quantities of various kinds of wastes in industries, trials on new waste types to determine the best design for its incineration.

Haat Incinerators is located at Jigani Industrial Area, in the outskirts of Bangalore. The company has 60 employees (28 Engineers and Executives and 20 skilled workers) in production, marketing, service, quality control and inspection, materials, maintenance and administration departments.

Source:  PHARMABIZ.com, Wednesday, December 11, 2002  

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Three city hospitals get awards for waste disposal

Three medical institutions in Bangalore were presented the Environmentalist of the Year Award for 2001-02 for effectively and safely dealing with their bio-medical waste.

The Minister for Medical Education, A B Maalakaraddy, presented the trophies to the Command Hospital of the IAF, St. John's Medical College Hospital, and Mallya Hospital, along with cash awards of Rs 50000, Rs. 25000, and a certificate of merit respectively.

The awards have been instituted by Haat Incinerators India Pvt. Ltd. Appreciation awards were also given to Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, and Kuppuswamy Naidu Hospital, Coimbatore.

The minister said the government hospitals, whose combined bed strength exceeded that of private hospitals, were not always disposing medical waste properly because of paucity of funds. "We have spared money for hospitals to have incinerators on their premises but all of them do not have funds for properly maintaining them. Some hospitals find their incinerators need frequent repairs," he said.

However, the Government planned to extend modern waste disposal facilities to hospitals in the taluk level as well, possibly with World Bank and OPEC assistance, Mr. Maalakaraddy said. "We cannot live with mountains of infective waste piled up on roads near hospitals," he said.

The Union Ministry of Environment had set December 31 as the deadline for all hospitals to have safe waste disposal facilities.

The Managing Director of Haat Incinerators, S Gopalakrishnan, said the awards were announced at a time when there was increased awareness among generators of hazardous bio-medical waste. Though there was a regulating authority appointed by the Government, manufacturers of equipment had a greater obligation of society; the equipment themselves should not create more pollution.

The nominations were evaluated by a panel consisting of M N Jayaprakash, Senior Environmental Officers, KSPCB; N Girish, Coordinator, Health Care Management Cell, M S Ramaiah Medical College and the faculty member of NIMHANS and Marut Sen Gupta, Deputy Director, CII.

All hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, veterinary institutions, pathological labs, blood banks, central treatment facilities, and research institutions were eligible to send nominations, Dr. Girish added.

Source:  THE HINDU, Tuesday, November 26, 2002  

Incinerator for Tinplate Hospital (A step towards Environment Protection)

Tinplate hospital has installed a new incinerator to take care of Bio-medical waste. As per norms of the Jharkhand state government pollution control board.

The incinerator was jointly inaugurated by Mr. Rakeshwar Pandey (President, TWU) and Mr. B.L. Raina (MD, TCIL) on 15 Aug 2003 Independence day. It has a capacity of disposing Bio-medical waste at the rate of 10Kg Per hour and is smoke free and odour free. Special care has been taken to keep the surrounding of the incinerator clean and hygienic.

The chimney of the incinerator is 100ft tall. It is supplied by Haat incinerators Bangalore who are the leaders in this field.

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Modern Haat Incinerator Installed

The Military Hospital, Shillong became the only medical establishment in the state to have incorporated and installed a modern HAAT incinerator (heat air and treatment) to effectively manage the bio-medical waste. Maj Gen I J S Bora, GOC, 101 Area inaugurated the modern facility built by Commander Works Engineer under the Chief Engineer, Shillong Zone at a cost of rupees 25 lakh. The 'oil fired incinerator' installed at the 279-bed Military Hospital was the result of the initiatives taken by local Army Commanders and hospital authorities. The exhaust gases of the incinerated medical waste which includes human anatomical waste, animal, microbiological and biotechnological waste, discarded medicines and cytotoxic wastes would be dissipated away through the 30-metre high chimney without having any detrimental effect on environment. The Armed Forces Medical Services has been promoting better treatment facilities for the Armed Forces personnel. The Base Hospital in Guwahati was the first to have installed oil fired incinerators with a project outlay of rupees 30 lakh.
- Sqn Ldr TK Singha

Source:  Sainik Samachar, Armed Forces Panorama

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Toxic Shock

The word 'disposable' has acquired an altogether different meaning in the Indian context - what you throw away today may well turn up like a bad penny but in a different packaging. In fact, Indians pride themselves on their ability to recycle almost anything; this is seen as thrift. But when the recycling involves dangerous and toxic medical waste products like syringes, needles, blood transfusion pipes, glucose bags and bandages, human lives are put to risk. Infected medical waste can cause fatal diseases like AIDS, meningitis, hepatitis B and C, liver failure, tuberculosis and brain fever. The Biomedical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules 1998 prescribes a number of provisions to eliminate the threat to human health from such waste, the primary being the installation of incinerators in hospitals and nursing homes. Similarly, five years ago, the Supreme Court ordered all hospital in the Capital to make sure all their waste was incinerated. Today, hardly any have bothered even to install incinerators. The backyards of Delhi's premier hospitals today overflow with all manners of toxic waste from where rag pickers and recyclers cart off used products which will eventually find their way back to the shelves of chemists in the smaller metros. In Patna, not surprisingly, over 90 percent of the hospitals have no waste disposal facilities at all; they have no plans to install any either. In which could be a scene from a horror movie, liquid wastes and human organs are dumped into the nearest river, which provides drinking water to the city's people.

In keeping with our well known penchant for cutting corners, many nursing homes and hospitals try to avoid the expense of purchasing an incinerator and dispose off the waste by simply burning it. This process is extremely dangerous and in such burning toxic dioxins and furans are released. The workers who undertake this hazardous task are put at grave risk from these emissions as well as to a myriad of infections from handling the waste without prior protective clothing. Needle-stick injuries could result in the transmission of a variety of viruses, the most lethal being HIV. Patients too, their immune systems already weak, are rendered all the more susceptible to infections from these wastes since they will come into close proximity with these at the hospitals. Those living in the vicinity of nursing homes and hospitals cannot escape the noxious effects of these dumps; indeed residents near some of the capital's hospitals and nursing homes have complained of being rendered vulnerable to infections, putting up with the ghastly stench and of animals actually dragging the refuse into their premises. Until recently, people vested their hopes in the judiciary to set right a system gone wrong after having lost faith in the executive. And the judiciary has never failed to step in to protect the human rights of the ordinary citizen whether to constitutional freedoms or his right to an enabling environment. Yet, today we find that even the judiciary's directives are being observed more in the breach in matters of vital concern to the public. In the long-run, nobody profits from such dangerous practices. It will ultimately undermine the greater public good and this affects us all.

Source:  THE TIMES OF INDIA, Sunday,  May 21, 2000  

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Incinerator installed near IGMC

For the management of the bio-medical waste generated from health care institutions and other sources like slaughterhouses in the town, the Shimla Municipal Corporation has set up an incinerator near Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital on Cart Road with the assistance of NORAD.

Inaugurating the incinerator, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said this would help dispose of the hospital waste in a scientific way and prevent environmental hazards. The Bio-Medical Waste Management Plant can incinerate about 170 kg waste per hour. The non-incinerable hospital waste is buried in deep pits near the project site.

This facility has been established with a total capital outlay of Rs 85 lakh. The operation and maintenance expenditure of this facility is Rs 18 lakh per annum. The MC has given the responsibility of operation and maintenance of this project to HAAT Incinerators, the company, which has installed the same. The Muncipal Corporation has entered into an agreement with the company for payment of Rs 15 lakh annually for the operation and maintenance of the project. The local user hospitals have been levied Rs 5 per bed.

Source:  HINDUSTAN TIMES,  November 2  

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Haat Incinerators to unveil new range of waste destructors

The Bangalore-based Haat Incinerators India Pvt Ltd is launching a new range of bio-medical waste destructors in the country.

The company currently produces incinerators that conform to all the norms prescribed for bio-medical waste incinerators by the Pollution Control Board. These machines can handle almost all kinds of waste generated by hospitals, blood banks, offices, effluent treatment plants, pharmaceutical firms, etc.

Manufactured in Bangalore, marketed and serviced by an all-India service network, Haat Incinerators have around 75 installations over the last three years in the country.

The company is launching its products - GD1 and GD3 - with capacities of 5 and 10 kg per hour respectively. "These models will be marketed at low prices, making possible the availability of environment friendly waste disposal solutions to everyone",' Haat Incinerators India managing director S Gopalakrishnan said.

Haat Incinerators is also making special trash destructors which use no fuel or electricity for free burning wastes. The Haat waste destructors are being offered with a unique design with primary and secondary chambers housed within the same shell that takes care of time, temperature and turbulence.

According to Gopalakrishnan, the Bangalore-based company was the Haat division of Diffusion Engineering Ltd and are being hived off to give a specific thrust to the need for technologically advanced waste disposal equipments.

Source:  THE FINANCIAL EXPRESS, Sunday, July 18, 1999  

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AFCH, model for scientific hospital waste management

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has chosen the Air Force Command Hospital (AFCH) in Bangalore as a model for scientific hospital waste management in the country. Of the three hospitals selected by WHO, Command Hospital is the only one from the south.

Disclosing this at the launch of Haat Incinerators' new range of bio-medical waste destructors here on Saturday, the Commandant of the AFCH, Air Vice Marshal, K P Hegde, said the WHO would fund the hospitals for purchase of various equipment needed for the project. The hospital would set up a model for waste disposal by adopting various kinds of incinerators including microwave disinfectants.

Calling upon doctors to take time off from their routine to ensure that hospital waste was disposed of in a scientific manner, he said it was the 'shoe-string' budgets of various hospitals that came in the way of safe disposal of hazardous waste. Hospitals spent more money on furnishing and providing a face-lift but ignored waste disposal.

Mr S Gopalakrishnan, Managing Director of Haat Incinerators, said that to cater to hospitals and domestic needs, the company had launched GD 1 and 3 models with capacities of five kg and ten kg / hour. These models would be available at low prices, making it possible for environment-friendly waste disposal solutions to be provided to everyone.

He said such equipment conformed to all the norms prescribed for bio-medical waste incinerators by the Pollution Control Board. They could handle all kinds of waste generated by hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, blood banks, offices, factories, residential apartments, banks and pharmaceutical companies.

When the waste was burnt there was no smoke or odour as the machines conformed to Ringleman's Scale O Specifications. Haat Incinerators also made special trash destructors, without use of fuel or power for free burning of wastes.

Source:  THE HINDU, Monday, July 19, 1999  

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New incinerators launched

A new range of bio-medical waste destructors were launched in the City on Saturday, According to manufacturers Haat Incinerators India Private limited, two of them - garbage destructors gd1 and gd3 - were the smallest in the range. The new range was different from the usual kind of destructors because of their 'horizontal design' as opposed to the 'vertical design' seen in other incinerators, company managing director S Gopalakrishnan said.

He said Haat Incinerators India Private Limited was formerly part of Diffusion Engineers Limited. The new company was formed a fortnight ago to specially cater to the need for 'technologically advanced waste disposal equipment', he added.

The horizontal design meant that the primary and secondary chambers were in the same line, not stacked one above the other as in the usual range of incinerators, he explained. He added that the incinerators were totally smokeless and odourless, the most economical in terms of operating costs, had free maintenance and also adhered to standards set by the Central Pollution Control Board.

Air Vice-Marshal K P Hegde, Commandant of Air Force Hospital, Bangalore, who launched the new range, said that his hospital planned to acquire one of the new models launched by the company. He stressed the need for the proper disposal and management of waste.

Source:  THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, Monday, July 19, 1999  

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New range of incinerators launched

The city based Haat Incinerators India Ltd., has launched a new range of bio-medical waste destructors aimed at hospitals and other bio-medical establishments.

Speaking at the inauguration of the waste-destructors, Company Managing Director S Gopalakrishnan claimed that the new range of incinerators conform to all the norms prescribed for bio-medical waste destructors by the Central Pollution Control Board and also to the European standards.

He said the incinerators were smokeless and odourless as they were provided with smut arresters to entrap unburnt particulate matter.

Compared with the conventional (vertical) incinerators, these incinerators were economically viable as they were lined throughout with special low-cement high-alumina refractory concrete having high cold crushing strength at high temperatures, he said.

These incinerators, he claimed, were more fuel efficient than the vertical ones.

Source:  DECCAN HERALD, Monday, July 19, 1999  

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Incinerators launched for Hospitals

The Bangalore based Haat incinerators has launched a new range of bio-medical waste destructors that could handle any kind of waste with 85 per cent moisture.

Speaking at the function here on Saturday, chief promoter and managing director of the company S Gopalakrishnan said the machines could handle waste generated by hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, blood banks, offices, factories and residential apartments.

The incinerators had no visible smoke or odour and had used a single burner for both primary and secondary burning enabling high saving of fuel cost.

Source:  THE ASIAN AGE, Monday, July 19, 1999  

Citizens should take care of waste

Citizens need to be more responsible about how they dispose domestic waste, Commandant of the Air Force Command Hospital Air Vice Marshal K.P.Hegde said here on Saturday.

Launching a new range of bio medical waste destructors made by Haat incinerators India, he said though many were making efforts to keep houses clean, they still tend to dispose of their waste just outside their compound.

Source:  THE TIMES OF INDIA, Monday, July 19, 1999  

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