The PPI Award 2011 in Brussels, organised by Resource Information Systems Inc (RISI), was held on 15 November 2011.

TNPL received this award for the Environmental Strategy of the Year - Mill out of 12 categories.

S V Subrahmanyam, general manager TNPL, said: "TNPL follows a philosophy of improving its operation by better environmental management. Through multi-year projects, water consumption per metric tonne of paper was reduced by 40% from 2007 to 2011. Likewise another project resulted in a 39% decrease of discharges."

TNPL produces newsprint; printing and writing paper using bagasse, as primary raw material. TNPL completed the expansion plan during December 2010 to increase the capacity to 4,00,000 tonne per year.