WCA September 2017

India Insight

Solar development Azure Power, an independent solar power producer in India, has announced its commissioning of a 100MW solar power plant in Andhra Pradesh. The project was auctioned by NTPC, the largest power utility of the government of India. The Azure Power plant is located in Kurnool Ultra Mega Solar Park, which has a total capacity of 1,000MW. The park is under development by the Solar Park Implementation Agency (SPIA) and Andhra Pradesh Solar Power Corporation Ltd (APSPCL). Azure Power – India Website : www.azurepower.com Raising the bar production The bar mill at the IISCO steel plant at Burnpur recorded its highest ever single day’s production on 3 rd July 2017. The mill produced 2,495 tons of 20mm TMT bars in FE 500D EQR grade. The mill had previously peaked at 2,431 tons in January this year. Since its commissioning in 2015, the bar mill, with a top production speed of 40m per second and an annual production capacity of 0.9 million tons, has produced TMT bars in 8 to 40mm sizes. The bars are thermo-mechanically treated to make them resistant to earthquakes. TMT bars produced from the mill are currently distributed in the north east regions, West Bengal, Orissa, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh. IISCO chief executive officer Rajesh Kumar Rathi said that in June the plant had recorded its highest monthly dispatch of 280 blooms and produced 5,300 tons of 5.6mm to 6mm wire rod coils. The monthly saleable steel production of the plant also touched its best ever mark of 139,279 tons in the same month.

Speaking at a meeting organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the minister said that the BharatNet project has seen better optical fibre connectivity during the Narendra Modi-led NDA regime. In three years it has covered 210,000km, compared to the 358km previously covered since its announcement in 2011. The scheme will see the launch of telemedicine, education and skills training through digital technology in connected villages. Bharat Broadband Network Ltd – India Website : www.bbnl.nic.in VNT nano dies – keep production running

❍ Nano die technology from Ajex and Turner

Ajex & Turner will be showing its range of upgraded products at this year’s wire Southeast Asia, being staged in Bangkok, Thailand, from 19 th to 21 st September. The company’s stand is A25. Produced in a modern facility, and using VNT technology, the company’s VNT nano dies demonstrate an optimal balance of mechanical properties making for a tough die surface, low friction, no wear ring and wire breakage and metal saving with economical prices. Ajex & Turner also manufactures trapezoidal wire drawing dies and sector shaped conductor dies to meet customer requirements in all aspects. It is capable of serving customers with any special tooling like shape drawing dies (trolley, oval, trapezoidal, rectangular, square, triangle, sector, etc) and sector shaped compacting dies for bunching and stranding lines. The company also makes wire dies in PCD/TC/pressure/ split/shape with extrusion tools, buncher bows and spiral brushes. Its research and development team is continuously engaged in finding solutions for optimal resource utilisation

IISCO Steel Plant – India Website : www.sail.co.in India’s village connection scheme

Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Indian government’s union minister for electronics, IT and law and justice, has stated that by mid-2018 around 150,000 gram panchayats (local governing bodies) will be connected under a national optical fire network programme. Of the targeted 250,000 gram panchayats to be connected under the BharatNet programme, around 100,000 have been connected.

to enhance wire and cable production. Ajex and Turner Wire Dies – India Website : www.ajexturner.com

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