BHEL gearing up to produce super critical boilers

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited is gearing up to produce super critical or 'once through' boilers of above 600 MW and had already received a number of orders, according to a top company official.

The first order for manufacturing and installing two 600 MW plants was received from Bihar. The Andhra Pradesh Power Development Company was almost finalising their orders for super critical thermal power plants, R N Mishra, Executive Director of the public sector BHEL (Tiruchirapalli) said.

"We are well placed to bag orders for two units of 800 MW capacity power plants, to be commissioned at Krishnapattinam near Nellore in Andhra Pradesh," he said, speaking at the annual sub-contractors meet.

Besides PSUs like National Thermal Power Corporation and other state government power undertakings, private players had also evinced interest in placing orders for 600 MW and 800 MW.

he said BHEL was in the process of expanding production capacity at a total investment of Rs 1000 crore.

A Chandrababu, general manager (outsourcing), who also spoke, said the company was looking at outsourcing more than 3.5 lakh tonnes of components made by BHEL sub-contractors. he said the piping centre at chennai had already outsourced 18000 tonnes,which would be enhanced to 30000 tonnes this year

Chandrababu said three prominent sub contractors had invested Rs 10 crore each to install state-of-the-art auto welding machines. About 15 vendors had signed an MoU with BHEL to deliver 500 tonnes a month, he added




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