Trichy Industrial News

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I have uploaded the photos of the following companies by the given order

Scientific Publications
Sun TV Office
Sanmar Engineering
Cethar Limited (One of the units)
Irizar TVS (Export unit)
Cethar Limited
Power Grid Corporation of India
Cethar Limited Corporate Office building
Bunge India
Rane TRW
SRF

[kg4129]

Isham, Great effort

Cithar going high

[Great Tiruchian]

TIDITSSIA's move aims at liaising with Central government

The Tiruchi District Tiny and Small Scale Industries' Association (TIDITSSIA) has sought a state-level Industrial facilitation centre based in Tiruchi for liaising with the Central government on behalf of SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) sector and securing subsidies under various schemes.

Though the loans for the projects under various schemes are routed through the Tamil Nadu Industrial Investment Corporation and nationalised banks, the responsibility of securing subsidies vests with the entrepreneurs, who, due to language barrier, face difficulties in securing attractive subsidies under various schemes, particularly in food processing, according to S. Sridharan, TIDITSSIA president.

The proposed facilitation centre would prompt many to come forward to initiate projects like cold storages and modern rice mills, he said, suggesting that the State government create a corpus fund for the Centre whereby fifty per cent of the loan amounts sought by prospective entrepreneurs could be disbursed without time loss at nominal interest. Such a corpus fund could be created even with equal participation from the Central government, he said.

Value-added products from banana could be produced in large quantities in the Tiruchi region in the event of the facilitation centre taking shape with requisite marketing support system and branding initiatives, Mr. Sridharan said.

The National Research Centre for Banana (NRCB) at Thayanur along Thogamalai road in the district has a consultancy processing cell to effectively transfer technologies on commercial basis. The centre also conducts training programmes on production of value added products in banana, like packaged juice and banana flower pickle. Already, some entrepreneurs have taken NRCB's expertise for handling, storing and processing bananas. The Centre has standardised storage conditions for banana, and the process of production of ‘banana fig' which has a shelf life of three to four months.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper...cle2722964.ece

[bajk]

Originally Posted by isham_9626

Cethar corporate office looks cool.

[bajk]

[bajk]

Production by fabrication industries is decreasing due to power outage.
BHEL is outsourcing works to other state due to power problem in TNd
BHELISIA to protest in support on Kudankulam nuclear plant.

[bajk]

[bajk]

Report states change of government has slowed down the development of SEZ.But the report doesn't talk about the proposed Aero park announced by the government.

[deepu051993]

Originally Posted by bajk

Production by fabrication industries is decreasing due to power outage.
BHEL is outsourcing works to other state due to power problem in TNd
BHELISIA to protest in support on Kudankulam nuclear plant.

BHELISIA have planned a power generator of 2MW for themselves, have it got over or in progress. If it is there then the situation would reduce. Also the new Thirumayam plant is getting ready and they may face even additional problems.

[MR.TRICHY]

NYSE-listed Bunge Ltd has struck a deal to acquire the edible oil business of Noida-based diversified Amrit Group in a deal worth Rs 413 crore ($78 million). The deal would give Bunge, one of the world’s largest agri commodity traders, a key position in the north Indian edible oil market.

Under the deal, Bunge will acquire the edible oil business of the public-listed firm Amrit Banaspati Company Ltd (ABCL) for Rs 220.72 crore on a slump sale basis.

For Bunge, this will be a big boost to its India business as it already owns key oil brands like Dalda. The company has been present in India for around a decade and has manufacturing units at Trichy in Tamil Nadu and Bundi in Rajasthan.

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[kg4129]

The Welding Research Institute (WRI), BHEL, Tiruchi, has announced conduct of its international symposium on Joining of Materials (SOJOM) 2012, from January 19 to 22. Experts in the field of materials from USA, UK, Germany, Italy, China, Finland, Austria, and Ukraine, besides those from all over India are expected to participate in the mega show on welding, being conducted once in four years since 1991 by the WRI and the Indian Welding Society. According to a BHEL press release, more than 124 technical papers will be deliberated during the three day event at the BHEL complex by researchers from various parts of the globe.

The major highlight will be the Exclusive Session by experts from German Welding Society (DVS) led by its CEO, Dr. Middeldorf. The participants of SOJOM 2012 will gain first-hand knowledge of the latest developments in the equipment, systems and consumables in welding to be presented by leading manufacturers from all over the world. More information on SOJOM 2012 can be obtained from the website www.wriindia.com and www.wriindia.com or by sending an E mail to hqiwsindia@gmail.com, the release said.

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper...cle2744059.ece

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The TREC-STEP (Tiruchi Regional Engineering College – Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Park) has commenced implementation of a prestigious European Union-funded project for developing a cluster for Clean Coal Technologies (CCT) and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Technologies for the Indian thermal power sector. In partnership with the Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), TREC-STEP will be implementing a comprehensive set of initiatives in CCT and CCS, disseminating new skills, technologies, and techniques to the Indian thermal power industry in order to take up effective demonstration and deployment actions.

The Rs.5.5-crore project of 36-month duration is funded to the extent of 60.24 per cent by the EU. The remaining Rs.2.2 crore of the project cost is jointly funded by TREC- STEP through the seed fund, and BHEL. The EU has provided the fund through the European Commission under the ‘thematic programme for environment and sustainable management of natural resources'.

ERNST AND YOUNG

With Ernst and Young as knowledge partner, the first training programme spanning two days attracted 55 participants representing the country's thermal power sector, academicians, entrepreneurs and innovators. The capacity leverage programme addresses two functional requirements: Awareness building and skills leverage programmes. The different capabilities available world over will be accessed, integrated, and utilised effectively together with national players such as policy makers, power majors, thermal power plants and enablers such as R & D institutions, academicians, incubators and start-up entrepreneurs.

The resource persons provided an overview of the global scenario of CCS and CCT initiatives, covering technology, regulatory, and policy interventions in carbon capture and storage domain. Inaugurating the programme in the presence of Shuvendu Bose, Associate Director, Ernst and Young, Haryana; S.Arumugam, Additional General Manager – Coal Research, BHEL, Tiruchi; and R.M.P.Jawahar, Executive Director, the president of Tiruchy District Tiny and Small Scale Industries' Association S.Sridharan said the training programme would enable the country on a growth path to address the challenge of reducing emission from thermal power plants.

[B]GREEN HOUSE EMISSIONS

As India needs more power to sustain its growth, green house emissions have become unavoidable. It was not fair on the part of developed countries to legally bind developing nations like India and China to cut down emissions, he felt, adding that such projects hold promise for the future. Over the last three decades, BHEL has been working on various CCT measures. They include increasing efficiency of PF (pulverized fired) boilers, development of advanced ultra supercritical boiler sets, IGCC (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle) technology development; oxy fuel combustion; biomass co-firing technology; and CO2 capture from flue gas, Mr.Arumugam said.

-The Hindu.

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To grow or not to grow. This is the dilemma that scores of small engineering units in the Tiruchi belt face. They sprung up under the banyan called Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), mainly to fabricate parts for the public sector power and heavy industrial equipment manufacturer. A number of them were started by technocrats and first-generation entrepreneurs.

Most are still content doing just that even after more than two decades of being in existence. A handful – the most notable of which is Cethar Ltd, started by Mr K. Subburaj, a former BHEL employee – have enlarged their business and have proved that there is life beyond BHEL.

Some like Cethar even compete with BHEL for power plant equipment orders, while a host of others have tied up with a number of power plant equipment manufacturers to supply parts and are also executing overseas orders.

But, for the vast majority survival still depends on BHEL. The public sector company would like these fabricators to do more – even design and fabricate the parts themselves, rather than relying on BHEL for the designs and merely fabricating the parts. But, the small and medium enterprises are reluctant.

The problem is that most of them were started by first-generation entrepreneurs. The next generation is not willing to join the business, because of which the unit has been contracted out. For the contractor, there is no incentive to grow the business and hence he is happy doing what had been done from the beginning.

This is how the chief executive of a company that started out as BHEL's supplier but now provides components to other companies, including those overseas, explains the problem confronting these units. In those units, he adds, where the second generation has stepped in, the business is doing well and the units are expanding. “Enterprise is lacking because of the business model we are in. We are all under a banyan tree called BHEL. We didn't know how to grow by ourselves. We took the safest route of growing in our businesses,” adds the partner of another company.

The comfort that BHEL offered in terms of regular business and assured payment, has been a dampening factor for most in being aggressive in their business.

It is over four decades since BHEL started outsourcing some of its fabrication work. From about 815 tonnes of work done by 12 vendors with a total cash outflow of Rs 25 lakh in 1969, BHEL outsourced four lakh tonnes of work to nearly 500 vendors, involving a cash outflow of about Rs 1,200 crore in 2010-11. This year, it hopes to end with about 4.8 lakh tonnes of fabrication work, of which 2.8 lakh tonnes will go to the vendors in the plant's vicinity and the remaining two lakh tonnes to vendors closer to the power plant sites – what BHEL refers to as “away centre fabrication.”
Away-centre fabrication

BHEL's away-centre fabrication has grown much faster than that done by its local vendors. For instance, in 2008-09 the local vendors fabricated 2.06 lakh tonnes of steel while those in places such as Bhilai, Kolkata, Delhi, Nagpur, Pune and Hyderabad 37,000 tonnes.

In the next year, according to Mr J. Kannan, General Manager – Outsourcing, BHEL – Tiruchi, the local vendors accounted for 2.32 lakh tonnes, while the away-centre fabrication's share more than doubled to 77,000 tonnes.

In 2010-11, the vendors in the vicinity increased their share marginally to 2.15 lakh tonnes, while those in other places fabricated 1.25 lakh tonnes of steel. Away-centre fabrication also helps BHEL cut down on transportation costs.

Will the local vendors be able to deliver on the 2.8 lakh tonnes of fabrication work that has been set aside for them this year, is Mr Kannan's main worry. “I want to give preference to them. I would like to stay with the local vendors,” he says. But, he acknowledges that the SMEs in Tiruchi face problems. One is the poor electricity supply situation. The second is the lack of skilled workers – welders to be precise.

A solution for them would be to adopt industrial training institutes, promise jobs to welders passing out of the ITIs and give them training. Apart from these two, Mr Kannan says the second generation not coming into the business is hurting its growth.

BHEL, says Mr Kannan, runs on the concept of Product Group and Main Assembly (PGMA). “I tell them that I will give them the PGMA, why don't you do it. The vendors are not sure,” says Mr Kannan.

Says Mr Rajappa Rajkumar, President, BHEL Small and Medium Industries Association, Tiruchi, and Managing Partner, Kumar Industries, a BHEL vendor, the association has been taking steps to help its members. For instance, it has a not-for-profit company that will buy consumables for its members. This way, the association is able to negotiate prices with the manufacturers because it is buying these commodities such as electrodes, welding cables and oxygen gas in bulk. This year, the company hopes to buy consumables worth Rs 50 crore.

Manpower shortage

Mr Rajkumar admits that if the units do not expand, more business will go to vendors in far-off places. A number of units are expanding, but skilled manpower shortage is a serious issue that they face. To cater to the growing business, he estimates that the units planning expansion will need at least another 5,000 workers. A number of units have started other fabrication work, especially of wind mill towers.

Not for nothing is Tiruchi called the country's fabrication hub, but he admits the units need to expand and improve their capabilities if they are to retain that status.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/...ue&ref=wl_home

[MR.TRICHY]

Originally Posted by bajk

Report states change of government has slowed down the development of SEZ.But the report doesn't talk about the proposed Aero park announced by the government.

Aeropark @ Perambalur is active according to TN budget 2011-2012





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BHEL, Tiruchi, has established process reliability of in-house IGCC (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle) technology suited to power generation using Indian coals, through its 6.2 MW demonstration plant.

The IGCC technology has been developed with 42 per cent plant efficiency, incorporating clean coal technologies (CCT) in the process itself with stringent requirements for gas turbine and easier separation of carbon dioxide due to pressure cycle. A 182 MW IGCC plant was ready for commercialisation; it will be set up with Andhra Pradesh Generation Corporation, according to S.Arumugam, Additional General Manager, Coal Research, BHEL, Tiruchi. IGCC plant, based on the Pressurized Fluidized Bed (PFB) concept, was ideally suited for the high ash (35 to 45 per cent) Indian coals.

The other CCT measures that the BHEL has been working for over the past three decades include moving from sub-critical to super-critical boilers with Alstom collaboration. The 3.44 per cent increase in efficiency could reflect in five per cent reduction on carbon dioxide emission. A further five per cent reduction in emission would be achieved by increasing efficiency to 6.77 per cent from sub-critical. For this, advanced super critical boilers with 800 MW capacities were being developed in association with BARC, NTPC, and Midani with target completion by 2017.

Reduction in emission of oxides of Nitrogen (NOx) could be achieved through BOFA (Bypass Over Fire Air) system retrofitted into a 250 MW boiler supplied by BHEL (Suratgarh). BHEL has developed selective catalytic reduction system for NOx reduction in Pulverized Coal fired boilers.

A 95 percent reduction in NOx could be observed in the pilot plant established at the Fuel Evaluation Test Facility at BHEL, Tiruchi. During October this year, BHEL entered into a MoU with Tiruchi Regional Engineering College – Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Park for developing a cluster for CCT and Caron Capture and Storage Technologies for the Indian thermal power sector. The BHEL has initiated two projects: Pilot scale test facility of 150 KW for oxy fuel combustion studies, and pilot scale studies on biomass co firing. The second project with targeted period of 21 months at an expenditure of Rs.32 lakh would enable evaluation of grindability and flame stability to find out the proportion of biomass fuel to be added to Indian high ash coal.

-The Hindu

[bajk]

Originally Posted by MR.TRICHY

Aeropark @ Perambalur is active according to TN budget 2011-2012

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Yes, this my point too. Dinakaran news didn't carry the information.

[Arul Murugan]

Originally Posted by bajk

Report states change of government has slowed down the development of SEZ.But the report doesn't talk about the proposed Aero park announced by the government.

But Dinakaran is blowing as if last gvt will working hard in bringing companies to Perambalur.

Krishnagiri SEZ, Perambalur SEZ, Nanguneri SEZ needs some strong and visionary politician and oppicers to project it to Indian companies and MNC. This will surely bring some changes in investment scenario. But who will do it.. thats the big Q.

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The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) will soon set up five zonal offices in the State to speed up the mechanism of granting consent for setting up and operating new industrial units.

The decision was taken at a recent meeting of the Board.

“We have sent the resolution to the State government for its approval and it is likely to be cleared. This proposal will also pave the way for decentralisation of powers. The head office gets too many proposals seeking approval for setting up industrial units. People also walk in with doubts about filling applications,” TNPCB Member Secretary K. Karthikeyan told The Hindu .

TNPCB issues consent to new industries in two stages. The ‘consent to establish' is issued before the industry takes up construction activities at the site. ‘Consent to operate' is issued after the installation of pollution control measures by the unit, if they conform to the standards.

The zonal offices will come up in Chennai, Madurai, Tiruchi, Vellore and Coimbatore. Each office will be headed by a Joint Chief Environmental Engineer and will control six district offices. The offices will be able to grant consent for industries with investment up to Rs.5 crore.

They will also have powers to provide authorisation for disposal of hazardous waste, biomedical waste and municipal waste, Mr. Karthikeyan said.

“Earlier, there was a rule that such applications must be cleared within 45 days. We are now trying to bring down the number of days to 30. The zonal offices will speed up the process,” he said.

In the past three months alone, the TNPCB received around 450 files pertaining to consent to set up/operate from units. “On an average, the various offices of the Board receive around 600 applications a month.”

The Care Centre set up for industries coming under the offices of the district environment engineer in Sriperumbudur, Gummidipoondi, Maraimalai Nagar and Chennai also receives around 200 applications a month.

Source : The Hindu