The Namrup-based Assam Petrochemicals Limited (APL) rolled out Asia’s first cannisters based and India’s first “Methanol Cooking Fuel Program” in Assam.
The project has been promoted by NITI Aayog.
The safe handling cannister based cooking stoves are from Swedish Technology.
Ritu Bordoloi of Namrup has become the India’s first owner and user of a cooking stove fuelled by methanol.
The APL is the India’s first public sector producer of methanol and formalin from natural gas as feed stock.