Gujarat’s Anand Vidhyanagar based Sardar Patel University (SPU) will confer honorary degrees to Rahul Bajaj, Bajaj group chairman as well as A M Naik, chairman and managing director of L&T, India`s largest engineering firm during SPU`s 54th annual convocation scheduled on December 15, Sardar Patel death anniversary day. Naik is an alumnus of Vallabh...
Engineering
Essar Infra bagged Dahej Ghogha ro ro ferry project
Essar Infrastructure will carry out the engineering, procurement and construction activity with an investment of Rs 176 crore to develop Roll-On, Roll-Off service across the Gulf of Khambhat between Ghogha near Bhavnagar in Saurashtra and Dahej in Bharuch district in central Gujarat. The service by Gujarat Maritime Board, will be used for the movement...
Pipavav says production unaffected during I-T search
SKIL Group’s flagship company Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering today said there was no disruption of any kind at its production units due to Income-Tax officials visiting the firm’s premises last week for verification of certain issues. “There was no disruption of any kind at the production units and the business of the company...
Kohler opens Faucets manufacturing plant at Jhagadia
American company Kohler opened it’s manufacturing unit at central Gujarat’s Jhagadia in the Bharuch district with an investment of Rs 60 crore to produce faucets. The new plant has CNC machining, automatic electroplating, low pressure die casting and assembly lines manufacturing facilities. A Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) facility will soon be set up in...
Maruti Suzuki’s first car plant outside Haryana to come up in Gujarat’s Sanand:FE report
According to Financial Express report, the Gujarat government has taken a decision to allocate over 500 acre land near Sanand to the country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki to set up its third facility and its first outside Haryana. The plant, expected to be up and running by 2015, would cater mainly to export markets...
Chinese company TBEA to set up Rs 2500 cr power equipment plant in Gujarat
Top Chinese power equipment manufacturing company TBEA will set up a Rs 2,500-crore plant between Vadodara and Bharuch next to national highway No. 8, and an announcement on this was made after a high-level meeting TBEA chairman Zhang Xin had with chief minister Narendra Modi in Gandhinagar on Thursday, according to ToI report. The...
Then India’s first home made submarine could be made in Gujarat
A committee led by former Chairman of SAIL Dr. V. Krishnamurthy set up by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to study India’s much-delayed submarine programme has recommended opening up construction of submarines to the private sector and two shipyards recommended by the panel to build submarines in partnership with government owned companies as joint...
L&T wins Rs. 1,450 crore contract from GSPC
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has won a prestigious offshore process platform contract from Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) valued at Rs. 1,450 crore. GSPC awarded this offshore process cum living quarter’s platform project to L&T under international competitive bidding to meet its challenging target of production of hydrocarbon by July 2013 from KG Basin,...
Doshion Veolia acquires Kirloskar’s GEPL in cash deal
Ahmedabad based water management company Doshion Veolia has acquired Maharashtra’s Nagpur based Gondwana Engineering Pvt Ltd (GEPL) from Kirloskar Brothers for Rs 50 crore. GEPL with turnover of Rs 60 crore specialises in engineering, procurement and construction of water treatment plants, mostly for government organizations. After the acquisition, Doshion’s order-book will stand at close...
Modi inaugurates Rockwool’s wool insulation plant at Dahej
Chief Minister Narendra Modi today announced to set up a world-class maritime park on the seacoast of Bharuch district. Chief Minister said this while inaugurating a manufacturing plant of a Denmark based company Roxul Rockwool at the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) of Dahej in Bharuch. Rs.159-crore plant will manufacture fire-safe insulation material – Stone...
ITT wins $74 million contract for pumping stations in Gujarat
ITT Corporation is heading a consortium that has been awarded a contract to provide two water pumping stations for Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited’s (SSNNL) Kutch Branch Canal (KBC) Lift Irrigation Project. ITT will execute this project in a consortium with Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Limited (MEIL). ITT’s Flygt vertical column discharge pump sets...
Alstom’s Gujarat unit for producing bearings unveiled in Vadodara
Vadodara based global leader in power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure Alstom yesterday unveiled its new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for producing bearings for medium to large sized hydro power projects in India and abroad. Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde inaugurated the factory at Vadodara in Gujarat in the presence of Alstom Power...