Jindal Stainless Limited (JSL), India’s largest stainless-steel manufacturer and the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) signed...
Jindal Stainless Limited (JSL), India’s largest stainless-steel manufacturer and the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) signed an MoU to jointly carry out research and development on various projects. With this partnership, JSL envisions to take up research, new product development, environment safety, and skill development along with IIT (ISM). The MoU was signed by Vice President, SMS, JSL, Awanindra Kumar Singh and Director, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, Rajiv Shekhar.
Taking note of this initiative, MD, JSL, Abhyuday
Jindal said, “As India’s
largest manufacturer of a sustainable metal, we take pride in endorsing green
initiatives in production. IIT (ISM) is a premier institute with major strength
in minerals and related efficiencies, and hence a natural partner for
collaboration. We will take up projects that will harness our industrial
excellence and the institute’s technical prowess.”
Director, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, Rajiv Shekhar said, “This MoU with JSL adds another milestone to
our academia and industry collaboration. JSL is an industry leader and we are
suitably poised to offer technical and operational solutions. This partnership
will equip JSL with a rich understanding of optimising efficiencies, and will
be an opportunity for our students to develop necessary skills and amass
hands-on experience.”
This MoU is in line with JSL’s efforts to promote industry-institute
partnerships and opening collaborative avenues between scholars and industry
technocrats for mutual benefit. Both partners will explore research and
development opportunities for a plethora of technological frontiers like
assessing physiochemical properties and combustion characteristics of coal
samples, ESG measures, pelletisation projects, water balancing, soil and
geosynthetic studies, etc. JSL has a coal-based power plant and buys coal from
all across the globe. Better expertise in selection of coal on right
parameters, storage and handling of such coal, pulverising and efficient
combustion of mixed coal as a recipe has lot of value creation, which the MoU
will help drive. They will also jointly work towards finding effective
solutions for various technological and operational challenges faced by
JSL.
As part of the MoU, JSL will support the institution in form of paid
summer internships to students, aligning projects for M-Tech students with
JSL-specific requirements, and hiring envirotech and electrical/metallurgical
graduates on merit basis. Additionally, IIT (ISM) will introduce Executive
Development Programs in its curriculum which will be supported by JSL.
In the past, the company has inked MoUs with
eminent institutions of the country including IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT
BHU, OP Jindal University, Raigarh, UPES Dehradun, MNIT, Jaipur, etc.
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