WCA July 2013

India

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Increasing capacity Kalpataru Power Transmission has confirmed that its new facility at Raipur in Chhattisgarh has begun operations and expanded manufacturing capacity to over 160,000 tonnes. The new plant has annual installed capacity of 55,000 metric tonnes of both fabrication and galvanising processes. After commissioning of the new plant, KPTL will have one of the largest power manufacturing capacities in the country. Company MD Mr Ranjit Singh said: “With this expansion we would get key competitive advantages like economies of scale, strategic central location of the plant and latest technology. These would help us to achieve our aim of sustained profitable growth.” Kalpataru Power Transmission – India Website : www.kalpatarupower.com Indian JV begins transmission Jhajjar KT Transco, a joint venture company between Techno Electric and Engineering Company and Kalpataru Power Transmission, has started its 400kV power transmission substation at Jhajjar in the Indian state of Haryana. Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam awarded the contract to construct the 400kV intra-state transmission system in May 2010.

The line runs for 35km from Jharli to Kabulpur in Rohtak and 64km from Kabulpur to Dipalpur in Sonepat, Haryana, with sub-stations of 400/220/132kV at Rohtak and Sonepat. The transmission network has been designed to facilitate 2,400MW of electricity and has been in operation since March 2012. The $81m public-private-partnership project has been supported by the central government’s Viability Gap Funding (VGF). Techno Electric and Engineering Company – India Website : www.techno.co.in Advanced design Pratik Wire Machines is a high-tech manufacturer of steel and plastic flanged process bobbins in India, making corrugated steel drums, steel pressed bobbins, plywood packing bobbins and wire baskets for export wire and cables. The company was founded in 1979 and has travelled a long way with its advanced design department and having well equipped quality control and dynamically balanced and fully machined precision steel reels for the wire and cable industry. The company also has experience of building copper wire enamelling plants, as well as all types of pulley and other spare parts for enamelling/drawing machines. Pratik Wire & Cable Machines Pvt Ltd – India Website : www.pratikwiremachines.com

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