Chinese group plans unit near Vadodara

Chinese TBEA Shenyang Transformers group today expressed its willingness to set up a high-voltage power transformers and solar energy equipment manufacturing facility near Vadodara.

A high-level Chinese delegation led by TBEA transformer industrial group chairman Zhang Xin and TBEA Shenyang transformer group chairman Ye Jun presented the papers to the state government with a desire to start the construction for the projects in September 2011 and commission the plant in a year by September 2012.

Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat hinted at developing the Central Gujarat region as an energy equipment manufacturing hub in the country's power sector.