December 02, 2008

L&T inaugurates 3 new units

It is reported that L&T has inaugurated 3 new facilities at its growth centre on Coimbatore campus. The facilities are engineering centre for electrical systems, a precision machining centre and a manufacturing unit for petroleum dispensing pumps.

Mr AM Naik CMD of L&T, while inaugurating the facilities, said that it had been creating growth centers at select locations and zeroed in on Coimbatore 2 years back. He added that "We would have more facilities coming up on this campus to give the comforts of scale and earn logistic benefits."

R N Mukhija president operations and company board member said that precision machining centre and the engineering centre for electrical systems were critical to the growth of the company's business. He said that as there was big growth in fuel and gas industry, the dispensers manufacturing unit would cater to the oil and gas retail segment in India as well as Africa, Europe and South East Asia. It would also manufacture auto LPG pumps here, which would be another first to its credit in India.