Pune-based Mitcon to set up environment testing lab in Gujarat

Company also coming out with IPO of Rs 25 cr from Oct 15 to be listed on NSE 'Emerge' platform for SME

Pune-based Mitcon Consultancy and Engineering Services Ltd plans to expand its base in Gujarat with  setting up of a new office and an environmental testing laboratory in Ahmedabad by end of this year.

The consultancy firm is also coming out with an initial public offer (IPO) of Rs  25 crore from October 15 which will be listed on the National Stock Exchanges' 'EMERGE' platform for small and medium enterprise (SME).

The IPO closes on October 18. Promoters of the company include ICICI Bank, SIDBI, IFCI Ltd , SICOM Ltd and other private sector banks, nationalised banks financial institutions and state government development corporations. "We are planning a new office and an environment testing laboratory in Ahmedabad. The work on this will begin soon after the IPO issue closes," said Pradeep Bavadekar, managing director, Mitcon.

"The lab would conduct test on air, water and soil for pollution levels and other parameters," he said. The proceeds from the IPO will be used to set up this lab and office in Ahmedabad, besides expansion in cities like Banagalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and New Delhi, Bavadekar added. Another laboratory is also planned in Bangalore. With a plan to establish a pan-India presence, Mitcon will enter the capital markets on October 15 with a fixed price public issue of 4.1 million equity shares of Rs  10 each at a premium of Rs  51 per share.

Following the IPO the original promoters of the company will dilute 33 per cent of their stake, Bavadekar said.

 

Primary area of work of the firm includes providing corporate solutions in decentralised power, energy efficiency, renwable energy, climate change and environmental management sectors. It has also, over the three decades of existence, diversified into providing services to banking finance, infrastructure and biotechnology sectors.

 

Bavadekar said that his company was providing consultancy for setting up of a mega food park in Surat district.