Private steel major Tata Steel on Wednesday announced that it will collaboratively work with South Eastern Railway (SER) to develop sustainable rail infrastructure by utilising its slag-based aggregates.
A deliberative meeting on the project execution was done between officials of the SER and Tata Steel, the company said in a statement.
Now it’s the high time for the utilisation of sustainable alternatives as it will also help in conserving the ecology, SER General Manager Anil Kumar Mishra told at the event on Tuesday.
Tata Aggreto, a greener substitute of natural aggregates used for constructing roads, and Tata Nirman, used as a raw material in making of fly ash bricks and cement, will be used for the construction of blanketing layers in railway tracks.
During the deliberation, Rajeev Shrivastava, Chief Administrative Officer (Construction) told participants of the plan to outline the ideas in order to strengthen the rail infrastructure by the Ministry of Railways.
In the endeavour to transform steel slag into sustainable aggregates, Tata Steel has established an accelerated weathering facility for processing LD slag through steam ageing.
The use of slag-based manufactured aggregates helps to preserve biodiversity by minimizing the need for mining of natural aggregates and hence the requirement of transportation of aggregates across large distances gets reduced, the statement said.
