BHEL Trichi asks ancillary units to take up modernisation

TIRUCHIRAPPALL: Bharat Heavy Electricals, Tiruchirapalli, undergoing a massive modernisation programme, has asked ancillary units in Salem, Thanjavur, Pudukottai and Madurai to take up revamping, a top BHEL official said here.

"We are planning a three-pronged approach in order to take on the ancillary units with us when we expand and modernise," Power equipment maker BHEL's Executive Director R N Mishra told media.

As many as 150 new ancillary units would come up to help BHEL increase capacity. In the next two years, 336 ancillary units, supplying boiler components had also been advised to modernise. Another 30 had imported latest machinery from Germany, Japan and China, he said.

The "conversion job" (raw material into products) done through ancillary units was 1.76 lakh tonnes last year. This would go up to 3.2 lakh tonnes this year. Consequently the worth of conversion jobs by these units would move up from Rs 220 crore at present to Rs 350 crore.

BHEL, Tiruchirapalli, which accounts for 25 per cent of the turnover of the BHEL corporation, had also sent a Detailed Project Report to upgrade its welding research Institute into a centre of excellence, where training in the latest welding technologies could be given, he said.