Graphite India is likely to restart operation at the plant in the Whitefield area of Bangalore, as it has received a legal reprieve from the Karnataka State Appellate Authority, which has set aside the closure order on its Bangalore unit by the Karnataka State Pollution Board last year. It had gone to the appellate authority, which in an interim order had in July stayed the board’s order.
Graphite India (GIL) is engaged in manufacturing of graphite electrodes. GIL set up its first facility at Durgapur in east India in 1967. Besides graphite electrodes, the company also manufactures anodes, other miscellaneous carbon and graphite products and calcined petroleum coke.
