Subham Oils & Resins has moved the Ministry of Environment and Forests for environmental clearance to its plans for manufacturing alkyd resin at its existing unit at Surjopur in West Bengal?s North 24 Parganas district. The total cost of the project is Rs 1.65 crore.

In its presentation to the Ministry for environmental clearance, the company said that it intends to produce 1500 TPA of alkyd, malic and modified phenolic resins.
The existing unit is of thickening of stand linseed oil with a capacity of 42.5 MTPM.

The total land area of the existing unit is 2,711.39 sq m of which the greenbelt area is 895 sq m. The proposed plant is located in the same plot and will use some common equipment. The area surrounding the plant is semi rural with a number of small and medium scale industries running and coming around the plant site. The company said there are no reserve forest areas or sensitive places around the plant and no protected forest near the site.

In its presentation, Subham Oils said there will not be any major potential for negative impact on the environment due to the proposed project. On the contrary, there will be positive impact on the socio-economic environment since the project will generate some permanent and secondary employment and it will increase direct and indirect employment opportunities, the company said.