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{image-L&T01_21012008.jpg news.oneindia.in}Mumbai, Jan 21: India's Engineering and Constrction major, Larsen&Toubro (L&T) today said its Heavy Engineering Division has bagged an export order worth Rs 1695 crore (421 mn USD) from Kuwait National Petroleum Company.

The company will manufacture and supply 22 Hydrocracker and Atmospheric Residue Desulphurisation (ARDS) Reactors for Kuwait National Petroleum Company' s ''Clean Fuel Project 2020''.Reactors are scheduled to be delivered by the end of third quarter of FY-11, L&T said in a statement.

This is the largest ever order placed with any single manufacturer in the world for such critical reactors. The order has been won against stiff international competition from Japanese and Italian reactor manufacturers, the company added.

UNI