Devastating fire consumes leading paper mill in India

Jun 15, 2012. /Lesprom Network/. A devastating fire broke out at the Khanna Paper Mills, one of the leading paper manufacturers of the country, on the Amritsar bypass, as the Indian English-language daily newspaper "Hindustan Times" said in the article received by Lesprom Network. The fire that started at about 2: 00 pm from the waste stock yard of the Mills picked up briskly, bringing the mills owners as well as the district administration on toes.The fire was so intense that till the filing of this report 50 fire tenders were called in and even army personnel were rushed to the spot. The Khanna Paper supplies newsprint to some of the major newspapers of the region and recently newsprint from here was also exported to Pakistan. There was about 60 to 70 thousand tonnes of waste paper lying in the mills that caught fire and the estimated loss could run in several crores.