BHEL to add capacity for glass insulators

The Ceramic Business Unit of Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd, which has manufacturing plants in both Bangalore and Jagadeeshpur in Uttar Pradesh is also setting up a plant to manufacture glass insulators for transmission lines.

Mr D Ashok executive director CBU said that “Presently we have a capacity to produce 100,000 units per annum at Jagadeeshpur. We will increase the capacity to 1.8 million units per annum at an investment of INR 100 crore by setting up a plant.”

Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd is the largest customer of BHEL for glass insulators. BHEL supplies 70% of the production to PGCIL. Its other customers include ABB, Areva and state power utilities.

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