Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL), which has manufacturing plants in both Bangalore and Jagadeeshpur in Uttar Pradesh has announced that its Ceramic Business Unit is also setting up a plant to manu…
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL), which has manufacturing plants in both Bangalore and Jagadeeshpur in Uttar Pradesh has announced that its Ceramic Business Unit is also setting up a plant to manufacture glass insulators for transmission lines. D. Ashok, executive director at the Ceramic Business Unit, 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 Bharat Heavy Electricals for glass insulators, for which it supplies 70% of production. Its other customers include ABB, Areva and state power utilities.
