L&T inaugurates 3 new units in Coimbatore
USD 5 billion Larsen & Toubro (L&T) inaugurated three new facilities at its growth centre at the Coimbatore Campus. The facilities included an engineering centre for electrical systems, a precision machining centre and a manufacturing unit for petroleum dispensing pumps.
R Mukhija, president operations said, “The precision machining centre and the engineering centre for electrical systems business are critical to the growth of L&T`s electrical business. These centers would significantly help in process improvements and better response time towards addressing the market`s current and future needs.“
He added, “We are witnessing big growth in fuel and gas industry and the dispensers manufacturing unit will cater to the oil and gas retail segment in India as well as Africa, GCC, Europe and south-east Asia.“
The new petroleum dispensing pumps manufacturing unit have capacity of 30,000 hoses per annum. The facility has been made immune to dust by Forced Draft Ventilation System (FDVS). The assembly lines designs are backed by e-KANBAN and tailored to achieve least through put time. The pumps will be auto-tested by CANBUS communicable stations with test data storage facility. There will be a state-of-the-art test station for petrol, diesel, and AutoLPG to simulate stringent field conditions.
L&T will manufacture AutoLPG pumps at this facility, and this will be another first to its credit in India. L&T fuel dispensing pumps are exported to Middle East, south-east Asia, parts of Europe and East Africa. The company is the domestic market leader with more than 40% share.
L&T significantly enhanced the capacity of precision machining centre as part of its engineered tooling solutions capability. The machining centre has been set up in close to 5000 sqm area that will go up to 11290 sqm in the next 5 years. It is a modern facility with precision machines and equipment aided by IT and computer systems to facilitate concurrent product development activity. The precision machining facility will produce high precision tool parts with accuracies in the range of 2-10 microns.
The objective of setting up this precision machining centre is to create additional capacity to cater to the growing needs of high precision and high quality tooling for L&T`s electrical and electronics business and precision machined components for heavy engineering business. The precision machining centre is intended to be developed as a business unit and has expanded into high precision specialty product on lines of becoming a preferred supplier to select companies with global presence.
The administration and engineering centre will cater to the requirements of electrical equipment and systems business on Coimbatore campus. This centre will meet the design and engineering needs of customers` demands as the switchboard manufacturing capacity has been enhanced from 7000 panels per year to 13,000 panels by 2009 and further to 17,000 panels by 2010.
This centre will facilitate integration of modern technology with manufacturing process and help L&T achieve global standards in every parameter - quality, speed, safety and efficiency. This will give switchboard`s facilities the flexibility for timely response to changing market requirements
