Avanti Petcare plans to establishment of a new dog food and cat food manufacturing unit at Sy.No. 44, 45 and 46, Cherukur village, Veldanda mandal, Nagarkurnool district, Telangana, with a project cost of approximately ₹158.60 crore. The facility is designed to produce 6,000 TPA of dog food and 6,000 TPA of cat food, with operations restricted to blending and mixing of raw materials, excluding any rendering operations. The State Pollution Control Board has granted Consent to Establish under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981. The plant is expected to be equipped with a husk-fired boiler of 5 TPH capacity fitted with a cyclone dust collector and bag filters for air pollution control, a diesel DG set for backup power, an effluent treatment plant (ETP) of 100 KLD capacity for treating boiler feed, cooling tower, washing and domestic wastewater, bio-filters and odour control systems including Bio-Oxygen air sterilisation systems, closed sheds for raw material storage and processing to control fugitive emissions, and rainwater harvesting structures. The unit will also maintain closed husk and ash storage rooms, and will develop 33% of the total area as green belt as part of its environmental compliance measures.