BS reported that Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited is planning to commission its piping plant in Thirumayam in April this year, even as it is modernizing its seamless steel tubes plant at Thiruchirappalli with an outlay of INR 160 crore.

Mr AV Krishnan executive director (boiler division) of BHEL-Trichy told reporters that “We will commission the Thirumayam plant in April, which is being set up with an outlay of INR 300 crore.”

He said that “We are planning to make 17,000 tonne of piping next fiscal. We have 40 acre for the plant and we are looking for an additional 60 acre for employees’ township and shipping (storage) area.” The company has hired 600 employees for its new plant while 200 more would be needed.

Mr Krishnan said the modernization of the seamless steel tubes plant at Trichy will get over in 2013 and the focus will be on rolling out alloy steel while carbon steel would be bought from outside.

He added that “The plant capacity is 90,000 tonne per annum. Our steel tubes need is around 300,000 tonne per annum and the balance has to be bought from outside. While the focus will be on making alloy steel in-house, we will outsource the carbon steel.”

(Sourced from BS)