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India
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
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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
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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
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