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Covestro GHCL
Housing For All Helping Make Fully
Recyclable Glass
Photo Credit: Covestro
For over 20 years, a family with
limited means had been living in Glass is a sustainable, fully
an unsafe structure of brick and recyclable material which
cement, lacking a stable foundation. provides great environmental
Located about 7ft lower than the benefits such as contributing
road, they faced flooding every to mitigating climate change
monsoon and were forced to sleep and saving precious natural
on wet floors. resources. It is a resource
efficient material which is made
In April 2017, Covestro, Industrial of raw materials such as soda
Foams, Habitat for Humanity India ash, sand and glass waste
and Cana together embarked
(culets).
on a housing project titled
‘UmeedkiAwaaz’ catering to 3 Consistency of soda ash with
families with special needs. Under the sand is key to manufacturing
the project, this family was glass that can be used for
provided a home built with state-of- construction of buildings, houses,
art technology – prefabricated containers etc. GHCL makes
houses employing a paper honey dense soda ash in compliance
comb structure lending load with this critical requirement of
bearing capacity to the structure manufacturers. The company has
compressed between polyurethane set in place stringent systems
(PU) foam held in 2 Bison panel to ensure that their soda ash
cement boards. The bison panel is delivers consistent quality.
chemically stable while being fire, This focus on quality helps in
weather and termite resistant; improving the efficiency of the
where in the PU foam provides glass manufacturing processes.
insulation cutting the heat making The consistent quality & source
the structure environmentally of this key raw material is know
friendly. to positively impact the life
of the glass making furnaces
Several families with similar plight
considerably by 25 - 30%. GHCL
are being supported under Umeed is thus not only ensuring that its
Ki Awaaz. But more importantly, own processes are sustainable,
this sustainable solution can be it is also taking sustainability
quickly implemented contributing downstream.
to the Government’s Housing for All
project.
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