Danfoss India gets HVAC drive contracts in 4 airports

Chennai: Danfoss India, a leading solution provider in mechanical and electronic components and solutions, has announced that it has bagged heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) drive contracts in four airports in India, including the New Delhi airport.

Ravichandran Purushothaman, Senior Sales Director, Asia Pacific, Danfoss Motion Controls Division, told reporters here last night that the company had been awarded a $1 million contract for the Indira Gandhi Airport in New Delhi, where upgradation works are on for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

However, Purushothaman declined to disclose details on the other airports 'since the company is not a a position to do so now.'

Danfoss was also looking to bag similar business in 106 other airports in the country, he said.

Sven Ruder, President, Danfoss Motion Controls Division, said the company has since its inception in India in the late 1990s, invested $20 million.

'We are looking at a long-term accelerated plan and are very much motivated to increse investment,' he said without disclosing the investment plans.