Background
Aditya Birla Group (ABG) is a USD 48 Bn Conglomerate with global footprint in businesses such as Textiles, Fashion, VSF, Metals & Mining, Cement, Chemicals etc. ABG group companies are market leaders in all the business segments they operate in India. Also, globally they are within top 10 of the leading players. Considered as a manufacturing powerhouse in India.
Challenge
ABG businesses (Metals, Cement, Man-made fiber, Chemicals, Carbon black and Captive Power Plants) uses water as key resource at various units across the globe. Cooling towers being a common utility operation is present at almost every manufacturing location and results in significant freshwater consumption attributed due to evaporation & blowdown.
They are looking for innovative solutions for the:
1. Reduction of evaporation loss from cooling tower.
2. Reduction of blowdown from cooling tower.
Our group seeks disruptive technologies or concepts which are sustainable, viable and help to achieve a stipulated objective to the max achievable extent.
What's in it for you?
Innovative solutions for given solutions will have opportunity to get validated and applied across the cooling towers used in ABG manufacturing locations.
This is a global challenges and ABG is willing to collaborate with both individuals/freelancers and other industry participants/universities/start-ups etc.
Opportunity to become part of a portfolio under Water-as-a-service platform from ABG in future.