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BHEL Tiruchi scales new heights

By Our Special Correspondent

TIRUCHI APRIL 5. Despite the sluggish economic and industrial growth witnessed by the country in recent years, the Tiruchi BHEL has received a record order-flow of Rs. 2,079 crores during 2001-02, bringing the total orders on hand to Rs. 2,136 crores, with an all-time high turnover of Rs. 1,787 crores, the total profit before tax was Rs. 176 crores.

The main reason for the good performance was the advance action taken a few years ago for strategic diversification of products, modernisation of the plant, and collaboration and partnership with world leaders for upgradation of technology and cutting costs said Mr. V. K. Gopinath, Executive Director today.

The Tiruchi plant was modernised at a cost of Rs. 102 crores, about six moths ahead of schedule, and with substantial cost saving of Rs. 45 crores.

Exports including deemed exports registered an impressive 23 per cent growth and stood at Rs. 654 crores.

The value added per employee rose from Rs. 6.12 lakhs to Rs. 6.73 lakhs, a ten per cent increase during the year. During 2002-03 about Rs. 100 crores worth orders would be placed with the small and ancillary units in Tiruchi.

The fossil boiler plant was close to reaching the Rs. 1,000 crores sales turnover, the production of the seamless steel tube plant crossed the record 20,000-tonnes mark and the Ranipet auxiliaries plant earned the highest-ever profit of Rs. 23 crores. The mega green field 500 MW unit in Simhadri was synchronised in just 39 months, the first compact stainless steel header-type heat exchangers was manufactured in record time, and the first steam generator of the country's first 500 MW nuclear thermal plant was nearing completion.

Tiruchi BHEL has developed and tested the integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) technology, using the relatively low-grade and high-ash Indian coal. The BHEL's total operational experience of over 3,000 hours in pressurised fluidised bed combustion (PFBG) in-house 6 MW pilot plant was significant in that the only other plant of its nature has logged in just 100 hours experience.

In three different phases about three thousand employees have taken voluntary retirement and today BHEL had workforce about 11,000.

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