Fedders Lloyd commissions Wind Tower Manufacturing Facility at Bharuch

Fedders Lloyd has announced the grand opening of its integrated state of art manufacturing facility for Wind Turbine Towers and Heavy Precision Fabrication and Machining facility in Bharuch District, Gujarat. The new facility was inaugurated on April 13, 2012 by Hon'ble Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri Narendra Modi in the presence of guest of honour, Hon'ble Minister, Forest & Environment, Gujarat, Shri Kiritsinh Rana and Mr. Brij Raj Punj, Chairman and Managing Director of Fedders Lloyd Corporation Ltd.

The estimated project cost is Rs.200 crores which the company plans to invest in phases. The plant is spread over a sprawling area of 38 acres with the built up area of over 300,000 sq. ft. and space enough for aggressive expansion plans. The plant has been set-up in a record time of 9 months with an initial annual production capacity to manufacture upto 250 nos. of Wind Turbine Towers upto 3 MW and Heavy Precision Fabrication of components upto 80 MT weight and is one of the biggest Precision Machine Shop equipped with floor boring (21 mtrs travel) & vertical turret lathe (8.5 Mtrs diameter) sourced form UK & USA. The new facility is equipped with high end CNC plate cutting & CNC plate rolling machine (75 mm thick) imported from Germany & Italy and the facility is designed to meet with International Specifications and produce components meeting with highest world-wide quality standards. The company plans to roll out its first tower by this month end and will cater to wind-turbine manufacturers in India and abroad, offering better cost benefits and providing supply-chain certainty. The main potential customers include GE, Siemens, Gamesa, Vestas, Inox & Kenersys.