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, Gunasheella 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.