Surya Roshni Ltd a leader in the lighting and steel pipes business in India is going for a major expansion programme by setting up a new manufacturing plant at Malenpur in Madhya Pradesh with an investment of INR 100 crore.

The report said that Surya Roshni is also expanding its Kashipur manufacturing facility in Uttarakhand with an investment of INR 20 crore.

Mr Arvind Bansal deputy MD of the company said that it had bought a 48 acre plot at Malenpur for building the new facility to produce bulbs, tubes and CFLs. He added that “This is going to be largest galvanised plant in India. This facility, which will be second in Malenpur, will have high mast and octagonal pole for outdoor application.”

He said that the Kashipur facility was being expanded by setting up 4 new chains of CFL with a total capacity of producing 2 million CFL bulbs. The company with a turnover of INR 1,750 crores is investing INR 550 crores in the next three years to become INR 5,000 crore group.

The company is also exporting to 45 countries across the globe including the US and Europe. The company has two state-of-the-art plants one each at Kashipur in Uttarakhand and Malanpur in Madhya Pradesh where the entire range of light sources and HID is produced.

(Sourced from Business Standards)