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BHEL to set up new fabrication plant
Saturday, 22 December 2007, 01:08 IST
New Delhi: State-owned power equipment firm Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) is upgrading the manufacturing capacity of its ultra-modern turbine blade shop and setting up a new fabrication plant in Jagdishpur in Uttar Pradesh at a total investment of 
5.2 billion ($131 million).
BHEL's proposed plant at Jagdishpur will help it meet the growing requirement of fabricated components and assemblies required by its major manufacturing units.
The plant will have fabrication capacity of 25,000 metric tonnes (MT) a year including 16,000 MT of structures for boilers for direct dispatch to power plant sites in the eastern and northern regions.
"The company has already invested 1.8 billion on the state-of-the-art blade shop and is now investing another 2.2 billion to upgrade the production capacity of advanced design blades to 225,000 blades for 15,000-MW sets per annum by 2009. With this, BHEL will become fully capable of manufacturing advanced design blades for thermal set-ups to 1,000-MW capacity," BHEL said in a statement issued here Friday.
"BHEL is also setting up a new fabrication plant and a central stamping unit at Jagdishpur in Uttar Pradesh. The new centralised facilities are being set up by BHEL at a cumulative initial investment of 3 billion aimed at meeting vital aspects of power plant equipment manufacture and will help in speedy execution of power projects," the statement added.
BHEL is putting up these additional manufacturing and fabrication facilities to support its plan of expanding its annual equipment supplying capacity to 15,000 MW a year by 2009 from the present 6,000 MW a year.
Source: IANS
5.2 billion ($131 million).
BHEL's proposed plant at Jagdishpur will help it meet the growing requirement of fabricated components and assemblies required by its major manufacturing units.
The plant will have fabrication capacity of 25,000 metric tonnes (MT) a year including 16,000 MT of structures for boilers for direct dispatch to power plant sites in the eastern and northern regions.
"The company has already invested 1.8 billion on the state-of-the-art blade shop and is now investing another 2.2 billion to upgrade the production capacity of advanced design blades to 225,000 blades for 15,000-MW sets per annum by 2009. With this, BHEL will become fully capable of manufacturing advanced design blades for thermal set-ups to 1,000-MW capacity," BHEL said in a statement issued here Friday.
"BHEL is also setting up a new fabrication plant and a central stamping unit at Jagdishpur in Uttar Pradesh. The new centralised facilities are being set up by BHEL at a cumulative initial investment of 3 billion aimed at meeting vital aspects of power plant equipment manufacture and will help in speedy execution of power projects," the statement added.
BHEL is putting up these additional manufacturing and fabrication facilities to support its plan of expanding its annual equipment supplying capacity to 15,000 MW a year by 2009 from the present 6,000 MW a year.
Source: IANS