Nocil an Old Ad |
This is a Magazine Ad
of NOCIL, the first petrochemicals complex to go on stream 10 years ago,
has made pioneering efforts to bring the benefits of petrochemical technology
to the people. The Old Advertisement
says
Ten Years from now, Will you and your children have enough
clothes to wear?
Think. Today, the total availability of cloth per person is
around 14 metres, barely enough for two shirts and trousers or two sarees. Ten
years from now, the total requirement of our 735 million people will be much
more. How are we going to fulfill our clothing needs?
Think. Today, the total availability of cloth is about 9,000
million metres per annum. Still, the clothing gap is a wide 2,000 million
metres. This will widen to nearly 6,000 million metres ten years from now.
If we are to fill the gap with cotton, we will have to
divert arable land to cotton cultivation. Can we do this, when all the
available and is needed to grow more food to feed more people?
If we import cotton, we will need to spend vast amounts of
foreign exchange. Couldn't that foreign exchange be put to better use?
What then is the solution?
Can petrochemicals, the raw material for synthetic fabrics,
possibly fulfill our clothing needs?
It's quite possible. If the availability of all synthetic
fibres, which is around 200,000 tonnes per annum today, could be increased to
about 500,000 tonnes by 1988-we would be well on our way to solving our
clothing needs. And in the process of providing more synthetic fabrics, give
our people clothes that are far more durable than cotton, look better, wear
better, and wash better.
Increased availability of synthetic fibres will necessarily
mean increased use of raw materials derived from petrochemicals.
NOCIL, the first petrochemicals complex to go on
stream 10 years ago, has made pioneering efforts to bring the benefits of
petrochemical technology to the people. By supplying more of hte basic raw
materials required to produce synthetic fibres, it has helped provide durable
synthetic cloth. As in the past, so in the future-we at NOCIL hope to make even
better contributions in the fields of agriculture, health, power, transport and
employment to help fulfil basic needs.
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