We are in the process of executing a contract for supply of multiple containerized incinerators to the United Nations. Peace Keeping Forces in Africa.

 

The UN Security Council has the primary responsibility for international peace and security.

 

The U.N. Peacekeeping Forces are employed by this World Organization to maintain peace in an area of armed conflict. The UN does this by working to prevent conflict; helping parties in conflict make peace, peacekeeping, and by creating the conditions to allow peace to hold and flourish.

 

The UN has no military forces of its own, and hence Member countries provide, on a voluntary basis, the military and police personnel required for each peacekeeping operation. Peacekeeping soldiers are paid by their own Governments. India being an active member of the U.N., has been sending its armed forces to various countries as required from time to time and the Indian armed forces have earned a good name for themselves and the country.

 

Peacekeepers protect civilians, actively prevent conflict, reduce violence, strengthen security and empower national authorities to assume these responsibilities. This requires a security and peacebuilding strategy that supports the political strategy.

 

The current project involves an incinerator with ejector mechanism, auto de-ashing, PLC control, air pollution control equipment, fans, burners and chimneys along with spares and operational store items, all mounted inside two customized, specially built containers.

 

The challenge was not only in making the system but getting it ready in a short time frame. Having done that, we find ourselves in a situation where there is a global shortage of shipping containers!

 

While making the containers to house the system, we had to be extra careful to ensure that the outside dimensions are well within the inside dimensions of the cargo container, as otherwise it will become ‘out gauge’. We also had to cope up with the inner dimensions of the customized container to accommodate all the equipment. Not only that, the two customized containers have to be inter-connected via a connecting duct and hence the connecting dimensions better be accurate!

 

We have

already despatched a few systems to Chennai port with the containers which were made available to us and are waiting for more containers to arrive in Bangalore in the next couple of weeks.

 

We hope to be able to complete the first lot of incinerators in the next few days, while work on further lots is going on at a feverish pace.

 

Our job does not end with shipping the incinerator systems to the UN’s central warehouses; it only begins there because we have to send our service teams to multiple locations to commission the equipment supplied and train the local operators. This is going to be more challenging considering the political situation in such locations.

 

This is not the first time Haat has supplied incinerators to the United Nations or Armed Forces in their own countries or in other countries needing their presence. Some of the projects include:

 

• 2 PD model incinerators to the Ivory Coast
• 7 GD model incinerators to peacekeeping troops in Sudan
• 4 PDR model incinerators to a UK military base in Afghanistan
• Several systems to the Indian Army, Navy and Airforce
• 9 ADR incinerators to Chad

 

And now, 21 TDR incinerators to CAR.

 

We are happy to provide waste disposal systems to the Indian and foreign troops, especially to the Peace Keeping Forces of the United Nations and hope to continue our service to such international organisations who keep peace wherever required.