Unit I of Essar Energy’s Mahan Thermal Power Plant commissioned

Essar Power on December 26, 2012 commissioned the 600 Mw unit I of Mahan Thermal Power Project in Madhya Pradesh. Unit II of the 1200 Mw power project is expected to be commissioned in 2014. The entire project is expected to cost Rs 6,600 crores.

Essar Energy Ltd : Essar House, Keshavrao Khadye Marg, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai

 

Essar Port’s Paradip dry bulk terminal becomes operational

Essar Ports Ltd on November 24, 2012 commissioned its Dry Bulk Terminal at the Paradip Port in Odisha. The 16 million tpa facility is designed to handle iron ore & dry bulk cargo. The terminal will help achieve better handling rates, improve efficiencies with faster turn around time for ships and will benefit the Paradip Port and its customers.

Paradip Port Trust : Paradip, Odisha

 

 

Essar Steel commissions Phase I of Jagatsingpur Integrated Steel Plant in Odisha

Essar Steel in November 2012  commissioned Phase I of its Integrated Steel Plant in Jagatsingpur district of Orissa.  The project is spread over 1,500 acre entailing an investment of Rs 10, 000 crore. Work on phase II of the six million tpa plant is underway with completion scheduled for March 2013. 

Essar Steel Ltd : Essar House, Keshavrao Khadye Marg, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai

 

Luxury Five Star Hotel Shangri-La opens in Mumbai

Phoenix Mills Ltd has opened the doors of its luxury five star hotel Shangri-La, Mumbai. The hotel features 390 spacious and elegantly appointed rooms, including 32 suites, with stunning views of the city, race course and the Arabian Sea. The hotel offers guests 7 restaurants and lounges.  Shangri-La, Mumbai has been developed by Pallazzio Hotels & Leisure Ltd, a subsidiary of Phoenix Mills Ltd.

Phoenix Mills Ltd :   R R Hosiery Building, Shakti Mills Compound, Dr. E Moses Road, Mumbai

 

Hyatt Place Hampi begins operations

Hyatt Hotels Corporation and Chartered Hampi Hotels Private Limited have opened Hyatt Place Hampi in Bellary district of Karnataka. The 115 room Hyatt Place Hampi hotel is located at Vidyanagar Township, Tornagallu, in close proximity to the business centres of Bellary and Hospet. UNESCO world heritage site at Hampi is 27 kms away from the hotel.

Hyatt Hotels Inc : Hyatt Center, Chicago, USA

 

WORK-IN-PROGRESS

Panasonic India will soon start the production of air conditioners, washing machines and power tools  from its new manufacturing unit at Dadri Toy in Jhajjar district in Haryana.

 

ITC has begun construction of a Rs 150 crore 2 lakh litres per day milk processing plant in Munger district of Bihar.

 

Hi-Rel Power Electronics, a subsidiary of Hitachi is setting up a Rs 100* crore power electronics product plant at Sanand II near Ahmedabad.

 

GMR Group is ready to synchronize Unit I of (2x300 Mw) thermal power plant at Warora, near Nagpur.

 

GAIL India is likely to commission its Dabhol liquefied natural gas terminal by February 2013.

 

Royal Enfield is setting up a new manufacturing plant coming up in Oragadam near Chennai.

 

 

 

Projects commissioned during November 2012

Chincholi Sugar & Bio Industries Rs 400 crore sugar factory goes on stream

Chincholi Sugar & Bio Industries Ltd. on November 30, 2012, commenced the commercial production of sugar unit in Karnataka . The company has set up a sugar unit with a capacity of 5,000 tccpd at Chincholi village in Gulbarga district of Karnataka with an investment of Rs 400 crore. It also includes distillery unit with a capacity of 65 klpd and 30 MW co-generation power unit.

Chincholi Sugar & Bio Industries Ltd :   296, Turbo House, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad

 

 

Rexam Hindustan Tin Works aluminium plant at Taloja operational

Rexam Hindustan Tin Works Ltd has set up a new aluminium manufacturing plant at Taloja, Navi Mumbai. Rexam Plc of UK and HTWL have jointly invested Rs 250 crore for setting up the new unit which has a production capacity of 950 million cans per annum.  HTWL already has a running plant at Murthal near Sonepat, Haryana

Rexam Hindustan Tin Works Ltd :   426, DLF Tower A,  Jasola, New Delhi

 

 

HAL’s Kasargod advanced electronics unit inaugurated

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) inaugurated its strategic electronics factory at Kasaragod on November 18, 2012.  The facility will produce advanced avionics and complex electronic components, that will contribute to the potency of a modern military aircraft.  The plant has come up on a 196 acre land allotted by KINFRA at Seethangoli, Kasargod.

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd :  HAL Building, 15/A,  Cubbon Road, Bangalore

 

 

Nestle India sets up R&D Unit at Manesar

Nestle India has commissioned its first Research and Development (R&D) centre at Manesar in Gurgaon, Haryana. The centre has been built with an investment of 50 million Swiss francs (approx Rs 288 crore). The newly commissioned centre will focus on getting deeper consumer insights in Indian eating habits, and will specialize in Asian noodles and Indian cooking focussing on developing nutritious as well as affordable products in appropriate serving sizes

Nestle India Ltd :  Nestle House, Jacaranda Marg, M Block, DLF City, Gurgaon

 

 

New integrated terminal of Swami Vivekanand Airport at Raipur inaugurated  

President Pranab Mukherjee on 07 November 2012, inaugurated a new integrated terminal of Swami Vivekanand Airport at Raipur, Chhattisgarh. The Airport Authority of India (AAI) has invested about Rs150 crore for the new terminal.  The terminal has the capacity to serve 700 passengers, equipped with centralised air-conditioning system, five lifts, three escalators, sophisticated CCTVs, public address system, fire-fighting equipment and two aero bridges.

Airports Authority of India : Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan,  Safdarjang Airport, New Delhi

Coaches begin to roll out of Rae Bareily Rail Coach Factory

 

Congress President Sonia Gandhi on 7 November 2012 flagged off the first set of coaches from the modern rail coach manufacturing factory at Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh. The Rail Coach Factory has been built over 540 hectare land with an investment of Rs 1,685 crores. Once fully functional, 1,000 coaches are expected to be rolled out annually from the Rae Bareily facility.

Indian Railways : Rae Bareily Rail Coach Factory , Rae Bareily, UP

 

Sanghvi Forgings commissions die forging plant at Vadodara

Sanghvi Forging & Engineering (SFEL) has commissioned its new open die forging plant in Vadodara,. The greenfield plant with a capacity of producing 15,000 tonne of forging material was set up at a cost of Rs 132 crore. The plant will have the ability to forge a single piece forging of up to 40 tonne.

Sanghvi Forging & Engg Ltd :  A /8, Parvati Chambers,  Pratapnagar Road, Vadodara

 

NTPC commissions Unit V of Rihand Super Thermal Power Plant

NTPC on November 19, 2012 commissioned  the Unit V of the Rihand Super Thermal Power Plant at Rihandnagar in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh. With the operationalization of the 500 Mw plant, the power generation capacity at Rihand has reached 2500 Mw.

 

NTPC : NTPC Bhavan, SCOPE Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi

 

Essar Power’s Unit II of Vadinar Phase II commissioned

Essar Power, a subsidiary of Essar Energy Plc  on November 15, 2012 commissioned Unit II of 255 Mw thermal power  plant at Vadinar near Jamnagar.  With this the total power generation capacity of Vadinar Phase II has gone up to 510 Mw.  Unit I of the power plant was commissioned in June 2012.

Essar Energy Ltd : Essar House, Keshavrao Khadye Marg, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai

 

Unit III of Indira Gandhi STPP at Jhajjar goes on stream

NTPC has commissioned Unit III of 500 MW Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project at Jhajjar in Haryana. With this the total generation at power plant has reached 1500 Mw. The plant is run by Aravali Power Company – a JV of NTPC, Haryana Power Generation Corp and Indraprastha Power Generation Corporation

Aravali Power Co. Ltd. :  Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Plant, Jhajjar, Haryana

 

 

 

 

 

 

Projects commissioned during October 2012

 Lemken’s farm equipment plant at Nagpur commissioned

German equipment maker Lemken India Agro Equipment Ltd’s Rs 120 crore plant at Nagpur has been commissioned in October 2012.  The plant manufactures pre-harvesting equipment such as primary tillage, seed bed preparation implements, reversible plough, seed sprayers etc. 

Lemken India Agro Equipment Ltd : D-59, MIDC Butibori, Nagpur 441108  (Hq : Alpen, Germany)

(Lemken) 

Carrier India’s air conditioner plant in Haryana opens

Carrier India (P) Ltd on 30 October 2012 commissioned its air conditioner plant at HSIDC Bawal in Haryana. The plant has installed capacity of seven lakh units per annum which can be raised to 10 lakh units every year. The plant will manufacture home ACs both in window and split categories.

Carrier India (P) Ltd :  Delhi-Jaipur Highway, Narsingpur, Gurgaon 122001

JVL Agro Industries’ edible oil refinery at Haldia inaugurated.

Chief Minister of West Bengal, Ms. Mamata Banerjee on 9 October 2012 inaugurated JVL Oil Refinery’s fourth edible oil refinery plant at Haldia in East Midnapore district of the state. With a capacity of 1,200 tpd, the Haldia unit entailed an investment of nearly Rs 165 crore.

Work-in-Progress : October 2012

NORTH EAST SOUTH Kone Elevators India (P) Ltd’s Rs 100 crore elevators manufacturing facility at Oragadam, near Chennai is under construction Godrej Properties Ltd’s Rs 100 crore residential villa project is coming up at ‘Godrej County’ Tumkur Road, Bangalore. 87 designer villas are on offer. WEST Balkrishna Industries Ltd’s Rs 1,800 crore greenfield Tyre manufacturing plant at Bhuj, Gujarat under implementation.

Yamuna Expressway opens for traffic

Akhilesh Yadav, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on 9 August 2012 inaugurated the six laned access-controlled concrete Yamuna Expressway, connecting Greater Noida with Agra.  The 165 km road has been built at a cost of Rs 14,000 crore.   It is India's longest six-lane controlled-access expressway stretch. The project has been executed by the Jaypee Group of Noida.

(Yamuna Expressway SPV - Greater Noida )

Royal Orchid’s Regenta One opens door in Hyderabad

Royal Orchids Hotels has ventured in Hyderabad with upscale brand Regenta One for business travellers. The hotel, which has  158 well-equipped rooms, a banquet hall of 400 sq mtrs, is located in the busy IT hub and the financial district of Hyderabad.

Royal Orchid Hotels : # 1A, KGA Golf Course, HAL Airport Road, Bangalore 560008

 

Green Park’s Hotel Marigold launched in Hyderabad

Greenpark Hotels & Resorts has launched its four-star business class hotel Marigold in Hyderabad. The 181-rooms hotel located in Greenlands at Begumpet has been developed at a cost of Rs 100 crore.

Greenpark Hotels & Resports : Hyderabad – Vishakhapatnam – Chennai.  www.greenparkhotels.com

Accor Group’s economy business hotel IBIS opens in Navi Mumbai

The Accor Group on 6 August 2012 launched its economy business hotel – IBIS - in Turbhe, Navi Mumbai. The newly opened hotel with 196 rooms,  is set up at an investment of Rs 150 crore.  Accor operates Sofitel, Novotel, Mercure and most recently the Pullman brand of hotels in India.

www.ibis.com