City firm bags award for green incinerator

Coimbatore: MAK India Limited, a city-based company, has bagged CavinKare MMA Chinnikrishnan Innovation Awards 2020 for developing a zero-pollution incinerator for solid waste management.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, founder of MAK India Limited Manickam Athappa Gounder said that the incinerator was zero waste, zero pollution and environment-friendly.

He said out of many participants throughout India, the jury panel led by Ajay Kirloskar, chairman of Kirloskar Group, CK Ranganathan, the founder-chairman of CavinKare, Pierre-André de Chalendar, chairman of Saint Gobain Group, and several IIT professors chose the product developed by MAK India Limited.

According to a statement, the incinerator was chosen for the innovation’s uniqueness, its benefit to people, and ability to be scaled up for production.TNN