MALAPPURAM: The state-owned Kerala Electrical and Allied Engineering company (KEL) will set up a new generation transformer production plant in Malappuram soon. The company has recently acquired permission for the commercial production of new generation cast-resin transformers.
The plant would be set up in KEL's Edarikkode unit, with an estimated cost of Rs 8.5 crore. The new generation transformers are technically advanced with high capacity and are more efficient and safer.
The cast-resin transformers of 3 lakh kVa capacity, are being widely used in new infrastructure projects and residential towers as they comply with the latest norms and stipulations prevailing in the industry. The Edarikkode unit, set up in 2010, has already sold more than 2,400 units of 100 kVa distribution transformers worth Rs 24 crore to the Kerala State electricity Board (KSEB).
Industries minister P K Kunhalikutty will lay the foundation stone for the new plant for the production of new generation transformers on Monday. Ministers P K Abdu Rabb and Aryadan Muhammed will also attend the function.
Sources at KEL, Edarikode said, with its expertise to produce distribution transformers and nation-wide marketing reach spanning state electricity boards (SEBs) and industrial units over the past 25 years, the new expansion plan of KEL is expected to take the Public Sector Undertakings (PSU) to newer heights. KEL has been in the list of companies with an annual turnover of more than Rs 100 crore for many years. In addition to Edarikode the company has three more units at Kundara, Mamala and Olavakkode. KEL had another unit in Kasaragod which later got merged with the BHEL, a Navaratna PSU.
Speaking to reporters, the KEL authorities also said the company, which has been chosen by the state government to construct 50 hanging bridges at ferries being crossed by schoolchildren in conventional boats, has already manufactured and installed more than 25 bridges and the remaining ones would be installed soon.
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