Skip to main content

BHEL bags contract for Mundra UMPP

While the generator transformers for the first unit have to be delivered by February 2010, supplies for the fifth unit will completed by June 2011

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) said on Monday that it has bagged a Rs2400mn contract by Coastal Gujarat Power Limited (CGPL), a Tata Power company, for their upcoming 4,000 MW (5x800 MW) Ultra Mega Power Project at Mundra in Gujarat.

The order for 40 transformers with a cumulative capacity of 5,872 MVA includes five sets of India’s highest rating 930 MVA, three phase transformer banks.

The order for busducts is also the first order in the country for 800 MW thermal sets. While the generator transformers for the first unit have to be delivered by February 2010, supplies for the fifth unit will completed by June 2011.

BHEL said that it is the largest manufacturer of transformers in India, having supplied more than 4,000 transformers, aggregating to over 300,000 MVA in cumulative capacity for transmission and distribution networks, which are the mainstay of the Indian Grid. These have been supplied to all major utilities in the country including SEBs, NTPC, PowerGrid Corp, etc.

On the export front, BHEL has supplied transformers to more than 20 countries around the world including Greece, Egypt, Libya, Oman, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Zambia.

As a result of increased customer focus and renewed efforts for sustained presence in varied industrial segments, BHEL’s Industry Sector business segment recorded an all time high order inflow of Rs786bn in the last fiscal (2007-08), an increase of 20% over the previous year.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

RBS picks up 0.60% stake in Gateway Distriparks

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has picked up 0.60% stake in logistic services provider -- Gateway Distriparks. The bank has bought 6.40 lakh shares in the company for a total consideration of Rs 8.32 crore. Gateway Distriparks, incorporated in 1994, is engaged in the business of warehousing, container freight stations, providing handling and clearance of sea borne export-import trade in containerized form.
Post a Comment
Read more

Day End Report

The Sensex opened with a huge downward gap of 250 points at 13,856, and soon touched a low of 13,731. Another rise in repo rate and Cash Reserve Ratio by the RBI sparked off heavy sell-off in opening trades. However, fresh buying at lower levels helped the index recover all its losses by mid noon trades. A fresh round of buying in late trades saw the index surge to a high of 14,249 - up 518 points from the days low. The Sensex finally settled with a gain of 113 points at 14,220. The NSE Nifty ended with a gain of 60 points at 4,251. The market breadth was marginally positive- out of 2707 stocks traded, 1,370 advanced, 1,264 declined and 73 were unchanged today. Reliance Communications (RCom) zoomed 7.2% at Rs 509. Tata Steel surged 4.5% at Rs 743. DLF and Reliance Infra gained 4.2% each at Rs 458 and Rs 945, respectively. TCS and Bharti Airtel advanced 4% each at Rs 877 and Rs 780, respectively. Ranbaxy was up 3.8% at Rs 545. BHEL gained 3.7% at Rs 1,442. Reliance advanced 3.4% to Rs 2...
Post a Comment
Read more

Auto industry records highest-ever sales in Jan

Riding on the back of economic growth, easy availability of finance and the continuing fiscal stimulus, the domestic auto industry has posted the highest ever monthly sales in January. The strong growth is both in terms of passenger car volumes and the total vehicle sales. According to Society of Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) data, the passenger car segment has posted a 32 per cent growth in domestic sales at 145,905 units in January, over the same month last year. The last highest-ever monthly sales in the segment were in March 2009, when it sold 129,358 units. Meanwhile, overall sales across the industry grew 45 per cent at 1,114,157 units. The earlier record of highest ever monthly sales was in October 2006, when the industry had sold 1,017,198 units. Individually, the umbrella passenger vehicle segment posted a 37 per cent growth, while the commercial vehicle (CV) segment grew 131 per cent. Also, the two-wheeler and three-wheeler segments rose 43 and 47 per cent, respectively.
Post a Comment
Read more