ABB India bags orders worth Rs 250 cr from JSW Group

New Delhi, Jan 9 (UNI) ABB Ltd today announced that ABB India has been awarded orders worth Rs 250 crore from JSW Group for enhancing its steel capacity from 3.8 to 6.8 million tonnes per annum supported by a 2x300 MW power generation capability.

The company will provide turnkey solutions and a range of power and automation products to the JSW Group for its steel and power plant expansions in Bellary, Vasind and Salem.

The project will be completed in phases and is expected to culminate by mid 2008.

Its power solutions will serve the needs of JSW's steel plants, enabling the surplus power to be fed into the 400 KV grid with the latest control and monitoring equipment to help manage the distribution network.

It will also provide process automation for the steel plant including plate-mill drives to ensure energy efficiency and reliability across the production chain.

''ABB remains committed to facilitating productivity and efficiency at JSW's globally acknowledged plants through state-of-the-art power and automation technologies,'' said ABB India Vice Chairman and Managing Director Ravi Uppal.

ABB's scope of supply includes substation equipment, HT machines, transformers, SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), protection and control systems as well as medium voltage and low voltage switchgear.

UNI