Trichy Industrial News

[deepu051993]

Best efficiency of power plants could be achieved only through placing orders for spares with original equipment manufacturers, A.V.Krishnan, Executive Director, BHEL, Tiruchi, said.

Speaking at a customer meet organised by the Spares and Services Business Groups of BHEL's New Delhi, Tiruchi, and Ranipet units at Chennai recently, he assured efficiency of spares supplied by BHEL. On the services front, BHEL has formed cross functional teams with a few customers organizations to analyse and resolve problems like tube failures and vibrations, Mr. Krishnan said.

Thirty-five customer officials belonging to seven Power Generation companies in southern region took part in the meeting. The participants represented Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO), Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited, Madras Fertilizers Limited, Puducherry Power Corporation Limited, Surana Power Projects Limited, Sterlite Industries Limited and Rajeswari Sugars Limited, according to a BHEL press release.

The State government wants BHEL to supply required spares for power projects as efficiency improvement of existing plants was very important to resolve the energy crisis, the Managing Director of TANGEDCO Rajiv Ranjan, said, in his inaugural address. The State government plans to add 8,000 MW of additional power generation capacity with 600, 660, and 800 MW boiler sets, he said.

The financial viability of TANGEDCO depends on tariff revision as there was a gap of Rs.2 a unit between actual rate of realization and actual cost of sale. The TNERC would come up with their findings in March after which the Tariff Petition could be operationalised, he said.

In his key note address, K Balasubramanian, Director/Generation, TANGEDCO, said that repair and maintenance of one of the units in Tuticorin was being planned. He appreciated BHEL for completing the commissioning of Valathoor Gas Station of 92.2 MW capacity three months ahead of schedule and declared that the Mettur Thermal Power Station achieved maximum power generation.

T N Veeraraghavan, ED, BHEL, Ranipet; R.K.Sood, General Manager/In-charge, Power Sector, Southern Region, BHEL, Chennai; and C.P.Chengappa, General Manager, Spares Business Group, BHEL, Tiruchi, spoke.

Technical presentations were made on boiler spares, controls and instrumentation products, renovation and modernisation, boiler house auxiliaries spares and field engineering services.

Source : The Hindu

[deepu051993]

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Tiruchi, successfully demonstrated a full-load operation of its first 250 MW Circulating Fluidised Bed (CFB) boiler supplied to Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) at Neyveli on February 4. The second unit is in advanced stages of erection. It is stated to be the highest capacity CFB Boiler in the whole of South East Asia.

The successful demonstration of the unit's performance signals the use of a new technology for utilising India's vast lignite resource in an environmentally friendly and efficient manner.

The plant has a list of new technical advances such as natural circulation technology for highest possible steam pressures (180 bar) for higher turbine efficiency and avoiding circulating pump for boilers; Pantleg Configuration, split furnace at the bottom, a feature useful for further scaling up the unit capacity up to 500 MW ranges; low SOx (Sulphur Oxide) and NOx (Nitrogen Oxide) emissions; and rotary quad sector air heaters.

The CFB technology also helped in overcoming one of the perennial problems faced in Neyveli due to presence of Marcasite (a form of Iron Sulphide- FeS2) which causes slagging at operating temperatures and forms ash deposits on waterwall tubes.

The CFB technology employs much lower temperatures (<900ºC) and thus avoids slagging issues caused by Marcasite, giving smooth boiler operation. CFB boilers are also able to handle high moisture, up to 55 per cent, a key feature required by most Lignite Mines as they have high levels of stored thermal energy in their circulating ashes.

This vast reserve of stored thermal inventory makes possible maintaining lower load operation without oil support.

BHEL, with its strong technology sourcing from Lentjes, Germany, and active collaborative projects with leading Indian and International Institutes, utilises one the largest CFB Test Rig facilities in the world, and is uniquely positioned to customise design to meet the varying fuel properties while meeting International standards.

Two CFB Boilers of 125 MW capacity supplied by BHEL to NLC, Barsingsar, Rajasthan, have also achieved sustainable full-load operation.

-Kannan/T.P

[karkal]

Baalu wants rly equipment-making unit in Trichy

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...w/11816701.cms

TIRUVARUR: TR Baalu, DMK MP as well as chairman of the standing committee on railways, has put forth a demand to set up a railway equipment manufacturing unit over a sprawling 100 acres in Ponmalai also known as Golden Rock in Trichy.

Baalu, who was in Mannarkudi, told reporters on Tuesday that the railway workshop called Golden Rock railway workshop was where mechanical works were being carried out for the Southern Railway. Of the total area (200 acres), the workshop occupied some few acres. Interestingly, a vast area over 100 acres remained vacant in the land allotted to the workshop very long back. Going by the findings, the standing committee decided to insist upon the railway ministry to set up a railway equipment manufacturing unit in Golden Rock railway workshop land. For this, he submitted his recommendation to the railway minister Dhinesh Trivedi to allocate funds for his project in the forthcoming railway budget.

Baalu also said the standing committee recommended that the railway ministry allocate Rs 65 crore to lay railway tracks between Thiruthuraipoondi-Thirukuvalai-Nagapattinam. The railways had approved Rs 890 crore for laying tracks between Karaikudi-Thiruthuraipoondi-Thiruvarur. The committee sought Rs 200 crore to be released to commence the first phase of work.

The standing committee also recommended setting up of the second unit of the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in Chennai, he added.

When contacted, a senior official in the railway workshop told TOI that there was no such step taken to set up an equipment manufacturing unit. However, of the 220 acres allotted for the railway workshop, more than 100 acres of vacant land can be utilized for such purposes. The proposal may be of Baalu's own fancy but no official communication was made so far. Moreover, the project would be new to Tamil Nadu as there was no such unit in Tamil Nadu so far.

However, the official confirmed that a project estimated to cost Rs 100 crore was afoot to set up 'Engine Block Reclamation Centre'. A detailed project report had been sent to the railway board for approval. Yet , approval was not yet given.

According to him, the Engine Block Reclamation Centre would be constructed in a small place inside the railway workshop and would be very useful to the existing set up.

[kg4129]

Drawing up ambitious plans to venture into newer areas, leading private boiler manufacturer Cethar Limited has decided to make foray into the healthcare sector in a big way and in the information technology field soon.

The Tiruchi-headquartered company, which has positioned itself as one of the leaders in power plant equipment manufacture, has already embarked on constructing a 30-bed hospital here with specialities in women and childcare and gastroenterology.

The Rs.8-crore hospital with advanced equipment coming up in the upscale Thillai Nagar area is expected to go on stream in April. The multi-crore company also has plans to establish a state-of-the-art 300-bed multi-speciality hospital at Pirattiyur here and a 3,000-bed advanced hospital along the Tiruchi-Dindigul national highway near Ammapettai, a few kilometres from the city.

The 300-bed hospital is expected to start functioning in 2015, Chairman K. Subburaj said. As for the 3,000-bed hospital, he said it would come up in 105 acres by 2019.

The idea behind entering the healthcare sector was to enable people get high quality treatment in Tiruchi instead of going to Chennai, he told reporters on the sidelines of ‘Athenaeum 2012', a two-day international conference on management research organised by the Bharathidasan Institute of Management here on Saturday.

Stating that healthcare was a growing industry offering great opportunities, Mr. Subburaj said the company would pump in equity of Rs.100 crore into the healthcare sector and raise the balance funds through loans.

To help the poor patients, a separate trust would be started in which a certain portion of the company's profit would be deposited to foot their full medical expenses after obtaining their credentials, he said. Mr. Subburaj said the idea of venturing into the healthcare sector was his long-cherished vision adding that dedicated software would be developed with respect to hospital management system and insurance claims. The company also plans to venture into the information technology (IT) sector by starting a marketing office in the U.S. in July, he said.

With an employee strength of 8,500 and a turnover of Rs.2,500 crore, Cethar has planned to handle African companies by starting an overseas marketing office in Dubai in 2014. “We will be expanding our overseas office at Singapore”, added Mr. Subburaj.

SOURCE: THE HINDU

[bajk]

Great news. Cethar is doing a great job and Trichy need entrepreneurs like Mr.Subburaj.

[madurakarenda]

Guys, any idea on what happened to this?

Monday, October 04, 2010

Isgec John Thompson (IJT) will set up manufacturing plant for sub-critical and super-critical boilers in Tamil Nadu. IJT is a division of Saraswati Industrial Syndicate and US-based Foster Wheeler North America Corporation. The facility entails an outlay of about Rs 800 crore. The company is looking for 150 acres of land in the Tiruchy-Madurai belt. The proposed plant will have an initial annual capacity of 4,000 MW and can be increased to 8,000 MW. IJT currently has a capacity of manufacturing 2,000 MW of steam generators and auxiliaries per year. The company has an order book of nearly Rs 3,400 crore and is likely to add another Rs 600 crore worth of projects by September end. The projects will be executed in the next 12-18 months.

http://www.projectsinfo.in/News.aspx...IbvhRX+lHJjQ==

[madurakarenda]

Came across a news article in Friday's dinakaran and dinathanthi like some coach manufacturing factory is going to be established in Palghat at an investment of around 550 crores INR at 250+ acres that will begin coach manufacturing in 36 months. Was that about which TRB spoke a while back i.e that was supposed to come to Tiruchi?

[bajk]

No, it is different. Palghat will have coach factory approved in 2008 and TRB has proposed equipment (accessories) unit in Trichy.

[rajii]

msg del..

[deepu051993]

Through a march on Tuesday, BHEL Small Industries' Association's (BHELSIA) appealed to the State government to streamline power supply and extricate hundreds of its member units from the serious predicament of losing orders.

Association president Rajappa Rajkumar who led the team of industrialists from the St. John's Vestry Higher Secondary School to the District Collectorate said in a memorandum submitted to Collector Jayashree Muralidharan that the survival of nearly 400 small, tiny and medium industries serving supplying boiler components for BHEL, Tiruchi, was at stake due to the frequent power cuts, hike in bank interest rates, and manpower shortage.

Due to the power cuts, Tiruchi was fast losing its identity as ‘Mecca of Fabrication'. The member units of BHELSIA were collectively losing up to Rs.6 crore per month on account of idle labour, and were unable to keep their commitments to the BHEL, thereby losing orders. The member industries employ 14,000 direct employees, and 10,000 others are serving the industries indirectly, Mr.Rajkumar said.

Due to delay in supply of component to Vallur and North Chennai power plant, their commissioning has been delayed, aggravating the situation further.

Use of diesel generators is not viable as the cost of power production per unit works out to Rs.15, as against Rs.6 charged by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board, the BHELSIA president said, making a case for diesel subsidy. In the present situation, many member units that have together invested Rs.1,200 crore were unable to pay interest on term loans and working capital.

Rather than declaring such struggling units as non-performing assets, banks should devise means to put them on the growth trajectory, he emphasised.

As banks have increased interest rates to 16.5 per cent to 17.5 per cent, the situation has turned critical for tiny, small and medium industries, he explained.

Suggestions put forth by the BHELSIA for addressing the piquant situation included supply of power continuously for a minimum of 10 hours a day; declaring two days in a week as power holidays in a staggered manner amongst various industrial estates such that the manufacturing units get uninterrupted power for the balance five days; permitting LT units to purchase power from private power producers and draw the same through the available grid; and early commissioning of Kudankulam power project after convincing the people about safety aspects.

-MRR/T.P.

[deepu051993]

Presentation of service awards to employees marked the Platinum Jubilee celebrations of Rane TRW Steering Systems Limited, one of the group companies of Rane, which has a manufacturing facility at Viralimalai near here.

At a family get-together on Sunday, G. Parthiban, president of the company, honoured employees who had completed 20, 15, and 10 years of service. Corporate HR vice-president R. Subramanian gave away the Total Employee Involvement awards, in the presence of K. Sudhakar, Viralimalai Plant Head, and V. Madhavan, Guduvancherry Plant Head. N. Balakrishnan, president of RTSSL Employees' Union, and Mohan, Head – HR of Viralimalai plant also offered felicitations.

Prizes were also distributed to winners of sports events in connection with the annual day celebrations. The celebrations also factored in the winning of Japan Quality Medal Award, and the coveted JQM Award by Rane TRW Steering Systems Ltd that manufactures high-tech fully integrated gears for medium and heavy commercial vehicles. The company also manufactures and supplies power rack and pinion valve for light commercial vehicle manufacturers.

The get-together function reinforced the attachment of employees to the factory, a press release said.

-MRR/T.P.

[deepu051993]

Is Rane having units only in viralimalai or in any other place?

[madurakarenda]

Originally Posted by deepu051993

Is Rane having units only in viralimalai or in any other place?

In Trichy,

* Rane TRW Steering ltd (http://www.rane.co.in/rtssl/index.html)

* Rane Engine Valve ltd (http://www.rane.co.in/revl/index.html)

* Rane Brake lining ltd (http://www.rane.co.in/rbl/index.html)

But I don't know the exact locations of all these except the one i have seen Rane TRW in Viraalimalai and guess Rane brake linings is near Manapaarai

[bajk]

I guess Rane TRW/Engine valve near Viralimalai and Brake lining near Ramji Nagar.

[deepu051993]

Thanks MK for the links. The Tanjore-Trichy-Madurai stretch has lots of industries such this, but its not getting to be considered as an Industrial corridor, which could further develop this stretch.

Also well done your industrial Trip in Mdu.

[madurakarenda]

Originally Posted by deepu051993

Thanks MK for the links. The Tanjore-Trichy-Madurai stretch has lots of industries such this, but its not getting to be considered as an Industrial corridor, which could further develop this stretch.

Yes, reason according to me could be the bottleneck in connectivity to port (take for example Karaikal which i hope belongs to Pondy and revenue will be going to them and road connectivity is not of top quality). The Vision 2025 is a SG initiative and they will think of all these and don't involve Pondy regions and all is what i guess.

Also well done your industrial Trip in Mdu.

Thanks deepu .

[deepu051993]

Originally Posted by madurakarenda

Yes, reason according to me could be the bottleneck in connectivity to port (take for example Karaikal which i hope belongs to Pondy and revenue will be going to them and road connectivity is not of top quality). The Vision 2025 is a SG initiative and they will think of all these and don't involve Pondy regions and all is what i guess.

To be true central TN relayes most on Karaikal majorly. Its developing fast due to TN. The road infrastructre is worst to karaikkal. Even now BHEL is using the karaikkal port and also many fabrication industries around the region. As a result the freight income of trichy division of SR is getting higher month by month.

TN can well develop the nagappatnam/cudalor fishing ports into full fledged one. In TN chennai and tuticorin contributing cent percent to cargo movements. There were plans to improve TN ports but dont know what happened to it.

[krishnaswamy]

Originally Posted by deepu051993

TN can well develop the nagappatnam/cudalor fishing ports into full fledged one. In TN chennai and tuticorin contributing cent percent to cargo movements. There were plans to improve TN ports but dont know what happened to it.

Already JJ alloted 400 cr to develop Nagai Port. It will be developed under ppp.
mostly MARG will get that contract too, so that revenue can come to TN as well.
because of MARG pressure only, SR agreed to double TJ-TPJ line. also new line survey on MV-Attur.

[deepu051993]

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Tiruchi Complex, achieved a major milestone on Friday with the despatch of the first set of headers for the 2x800 MW power project at Krishnapatnam in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh.

A.V. Krishnan, Executive Director, flagged off the first set from BHEL's High Pressure Boiler Plant here.

A typical 800 MW supercritical boiler unit requires 43 headers, each weighing up to 38 Metric Tonnes (MT) and having a length of up to 24 metres. The headers were transported on special trailers. Headers being very critical component in a boiler system are subjected to rigorous statutory inspections at various stages of manufacturing.

The two 800 MW supercritical boilers, with a weight of about 32,000 metric tonnes each, are being set up by BHEL for the first time against a Rs.2500 crore order placed on the company by Andhra Pradesh Power Development Company Limited (APPDCL), for setting up the 2x800 MW Steam Generator (SG) package at Krishnapatnam. BHEL had demonstrated its international competitiveness by securing this order by outbidding the L&T-Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) combine in a global tender.

BHEL's scope of work in the project envisages manufacture, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of the Steam Generators and associated auxiliaries including Electrostatic Precipitators (ESPs). For the project, the supercritical boilers will be manufactured by BHEL in Tiruchi, while the Hyderabad and Ranipet plants will supply coal mills and ESPs respectively.

Supercritical technology ensures lower coal consumption, minimum emission and eco-friendly and efficient power generation. BHEL has been promoting joint venture companies to build, own and operate supercritical thermal power plants in association with state utilities like TNEB, KPCL and Mahagenco.

BHEL has upgraded its technology base from sub-critical sets to supercritical sets of 660/800 MW and above. The company has ongoing collaboration agreements with Alstom, France and Siemens, Germany, with a technology transfer arrangement. This will enable the country to be self-reliant in the field of supercritical thermal power plants.

-MRR/T.P.

[deepu051993]

The first edition of a video magazine of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Tiruchi, christened, ‘ Nirmaalai,' was released here by A.V.Krishnan, Executive Director, BHEL, Tiruchi, on Saturday.

The video magazine to be a bi-monthly one would cover major events taking place at BHEL Tiruchi such as major dispatch of boiler components to power projects, important visits, message to employees, feedback from select customers, future plans, value systems, corporate social responsibility activities, and health issues.

Mr.Krishnan said the launch of magazine was part of the company's communication strategy to connect with employees.

It was important to share right type of information through communication networks. BHEL has been disseminating information to employees through all forms, including print media and electronic media, he said. The magazine would help the organisation communicate with its 11,300 employees effectively.

S.S.Pillai, General Manager, briefed about the importance of the effective communication for employees in an organisation. K.Murali, Deputy General Manager, Public Relations & Administration, proposed the vote of thanks[/quote]

Source : The Hindu