Alfa Laval, Wartsila Team Up For Power, Water Units

Alfa Laval India and Wartsila are working on a business strategy to tap the power-cum-water desalination projects in the coastal states of the country.

The Alfa Laval-Wartsila combine will focus on their respective core competencies. Wartsila will stress on the building of power generation plants while Alfa Laval will focus on building water desalination plants during their joint bids.

Both companies see tremendous synergy in their businesses and are looking at converting the power-cum-water crisis in the coastal states into business opportunities. The combine will soon be approaching the coastal states with concrete proposals.

"Engineering teams of both Alfa Laval and Wartsila have started working out strategies to work out the potential of the business. I have already had a meeting with the managing director of Wartsila, Pradeep Mullick, to work out a plan for a joint approach to meet the large demand for power and water of the coastal states," Satish Tandon, managing director of Alfa Laval India, said.

 

As per the joint strategy being worked out, Alfa Laval will tap the excess heat emitted from power generation units built by Wartsilla. This excess heat, the major input cost to remove salt from the water, will be used for the desalination of the water.

The Wartsila-Alfa Laval combine plans to either put up these plants on their own BOOT basis or build them on turn-key basis for the state governments.

Wartsila may even opt to work as a utility company selling power and water to state-owned bodies in various states, but a final decision on this is yet to be taken, Tandon said.