Boost capacity to meet demand: Bhel asks vendors

Bharat Heavy Electricals (Bhel) has asked its vendors and suppliers to form clusters to ramp up their scale of operations and meet Bhel’s increased demand, said AV Krishnan, executive director, Bhel (Trichy).

After flagging off four trailers loaded with four 116-tonne ceiling griders for the country’s first 800 mw super critical thermal power station being set up at Krishnapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, Krishnan asked the ancilliary units to increase their scale of operations to achieve an annual growth rate of 30% to 35% to grab huge opportunities thrown open by the power sector. The small industries should form clusters, wherein 100 companies would in the front-end to produce a minimum of 60,000 mt a year, supported by small industrial units forming the second line.

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