GAIL India
commissions Dabhol LNG Terminal
GAIL India on January 10, 2013 successfully
commissioned the Dabhol LNG terminal at Ratnagiri, Maharashtra around
340 km south of Mumbai. The terminal is operated by RGPPL, a JV of GAIL (India)
and NTPC. The commissioning of the
Dhabol gas terminal provides access to natural gas supply to the southern and
western states - Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The current
capacity of the LNG terminal is 5 million tpa. GAIL is also at an advanced
stage of commissioning the 1400- km Dhabol-Bangalore pipeline system.
GAIL India (Ratnagiri Gas & Power (P) Ltd) : NTPC Bhavan, Core 7, SCOPE Complex, Lodhi
Road, New Delhi 110003
Unit IV of Mundra
UMPP synchronized
Coastal
Gujarat Power Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata
Power Ltd. has synchronised Unit IV of Ultra Mega Power Project
(UMPP) at Mundra in Gujarat. The company on January 8, 2013 commissioned
800 MW unit of UMPP project. It had commissioned Unit I of the project in
March 2012, Unit II in July 2012 and Unit III in October 2012. The total power
generation at the Mundra UMPP now stands at 3200 Mw.
Tata
Power (Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd) : Backbay Reclamation Centre, Gen. J Bhosale
Marg, Nariman Point, Mumbai
Reliance Power’s Butibori plant becomes fully
operational
Reliance Power Ltd has started power generation from 300 Mw Unit II of
Butibori thermal power plant near Nagpur in Maharashtra from January 2013.
Unit I of the Butibori power plant was commissioned in August 2012. The
600 Mw power plant has been built over a 276 acre plant in the outskirts of
Nagpur. Power generated from the plant will be distributed to industrial and
distribution utilities and will help reduce the demand-supply gap in
Maharashtra.
Reliance Power Ltd : H
Block, Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City, Kopar Khairane, Navi Mumbai
Unit I of GMR
Kamalanga Energy power plant operational
GMR Energy on January 27, 2013 synchronised the
unit I (350 MW) of 1,050 MW-coal based power project at Kamalanga, near
Dhenkanal in Orissa. Work on unit II and unit III of the project are in
progress. This is the first IPP in Orissa under MoU and to have synchronised
with the Central grid.
GMR Group (GMR Kamalanga Energy Ltd ): SKIP House, Museum Road,
Bangalore 560025
President inaugurates new terminal of Kolkata
airport
Pranab
Mukherjee, President of India on January 18, 2013, inaugurated the new
integrated terminal of the Netaji Subhash
Chandra Bose International Airport at Kolkata. The new terminal has capacity to handle 20
million passengers annually as compared to the present 7.46 million. The
state-of-the-art world class facility has been built by ITD Cementation India
in a JV with its parent company Italian-Thai Development Public Co, Thailand. The
new airport terminal has a covered area of 2.33 lakh sq mtrs with 40
immigration counters, 26 conveyor belts, six customs counters and 18 aero
bridges.
Hitachi India manufacturing facility in Gujarat
inaugurated
Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat, on 13 January 2013,
inaugurated the manufacturing plant of Hitachi
Home and Life Solutions (India) (HHLI) at Kadi in Mehsana district
of Gujarat. The company has invested Rs 100 crore in the facility which
has the capacity to manufacture 6 lakh units per annum of commercial and
domestic air-conditioners. The
plant located 40 kms north of Ahmedabad is spread over a 85,000 sqmtr plot.
Hitachi
Home & Life Solutions (India) Ltd : A-15, Mohan Coop Estate, Mathura Road,
New Delhi
NOCIL commissions chemical plant at Dahej
NOCIL has
commissioned Phase I of rubber intermediates and chemicals unit located at Dahej
in Gujarat. Phase I of the project consists of rubber intermediate and
Phase II of rubber chemicals. The total investment outlay is Rs 500 crores.
NOCIL
Ltd : Mafatlal House, H T Parekh Marg, Backbay Reclamation, Churchgate, Mumbai
Production starts at Parker
Hannifin plant near Chennai
Hydraulics-maker
Parker Hannifin, on January 8, 2012, began
operation from its first manufacturing facility in Chennai. The facility
located at Mahindra World City has come up with an investment of Rs 100
crore over the last two years. It will manufacture systems for the automotive,
telecom and oil and gas segments catering primarily to domestic demand
Parker
Hannifin India (P) Ltd : EL 26, MIDC,
TTC Industrial Area, Mahape, Navi Mumbai
Cyient’s new development centre at Kakinada
becomes operational
N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and
M.M. Pallam Raju, Human Resources Development Minister on January 10, 2013
inaugurated the new development center of Cyient
Ltd (formerly Infotech Ltd) at Sarpavaram SEZ in Kakinada,
Andhra Pradesh. The five acre sprawling campus houses the development
center with a built up area of 52,000 sq ft. It will deliver cutting-edge
solutions to customers primarily in the oil and gas, energy and utilities
industry.
Cyient Ltd : Plot No.11, Software Units Layout, Infocity,
Madhapur, Hyderabad 50008
Phoenix Market City Mall opens in Chennai
Phoenix
Mills Ltd on January 23, 2013 opened the Phoenix
Marketcity mega mall in Chennai. Phoenix Marketcity has come
up over 16.5-acre property near Velachery. The mall has spread over 10 lakh sq
ft of leasable area. Over 260 international brands are to be housed in the
mall, along with a 11-screen, 2,450-seat, multiplex by Sathyam Cinemas.
L&T Port on February 11, 2013 opened its first container loading facility
at Kattupalli port near Ennore in Tamil Nadu. The facility with a capacity to load 1.2
million standard containers per annum is part of the shipyard-cum-port complex
that L&T Shipbuilding has constructed at Kattupalli with an investment of
Rs 3,989 crore. The project
is implemented by Kattupalli International Container Terminal owned by L&T
Ports, a unit of L&T Shipbuilding.
Bridgestone
Corporation has started production of passenger cars radials at its green-field
plant at Chakan, near Pune. The project,
to be completed in phases, is coming up with an estimated investment of Rs
2,600 crore. When fully completed the facility will have an installed capacity to
make 10,000 passenger car tyres and 3,000 tyres for buses and trucks per day.
