BHEL unit likely to achieve Rs 12,750 cr turnover

Power plant equipment major BHEL's unit here is poised to surpass Rs 12,750 crore turnover at the end of this fiscal, a senior executive of the PSU said here.

"This fiscal we will end with a turnover exceeding Rs 12,750 crore as against Rs 10,008 crore achieved during the previous fiscal.

We are maintaining a growth rate of 34% y-o-y. We are hopeful of achieving a turnover of Rs 16,200 crore in 2011-12, A V Krishnan, Executive Director, BHEL, told PTI here.

The achievement is the result of the recent capacity augmentation at the unit here, he said.

BHEL had already accrued a fat order book to the tune of Rs 38,000 crore here as of December 1, 2010 and many more orders were in the pipeline

The Q4 for the PSU was a busy one. The BHEL unit here would dispatch 3 lakh metric tonnes of power plant components within two months, Krishnan said.

The BHEL was ready with technologies like higher capacity (600-880 mw) thermal power plant through super critical boilers, nuclear steam generators, integrated gasification combined cycle systems, higher capacity piping systems and super critical valves, he said.

"The company has already initiated improvement programmes like sequential dispatches, standardisation, reduction of cost of operations and wastage materials", he said.