Greaves Cotton augmenting its capacity : Excon 2007

Saturday, 17 November 2007

Bangalore: Greaves Cotton Limited, one of India's leading engineering companies and a major player in the infrastructure equipment space has launched six new products at Excon 2007,a construction equipment and technology fair.

In the recent years, Greaves has made rapid strides in the infrastructure equipment business with a wide range of world class equipment in both concreting and compaction which commands substantial share of the market.

In addition to the plant recently commissioned for Transit Mixers, greaves is further augmenting its capacity with another state-of-the-art manufacturing plant, which is likely to go on stream early 2008. This would enable the company to double its capacity in Compaction equipment as well as Concrete Pumps and Batching Plants. Moreover, Greaves is also strengthening its R & D efforts, which would facilitate introduction of new products tailored to changing customer requirements.

Commenting on the occasion, Mr. Praveen Sachdev MD & CEO, said, "We are committed to the partner the Indian Industry in its quest for world class infrastructure by delivering a range of products that meet global benchmarks of quality, efficiency and spped."

Greaves' new products include:
Perfectmix- 1000 Concrete Batching Plant with 60 cbm/hr capacity
GCM 90 Transit Mixer of 9 cbm capacity
GCP 450 D-S Concrete pump in the concreting field
12T vibratory Soil Compactor with A/c Cabin
Heavy Tandem Roller with Cabin
Light Tandem Roller with an indigenous engine in the compaction field.

These products will provide cutting edge technology to the Indian infrastructure industry.

The new products have been designed and developed at Greaves' own R & D facilty and have unique features to suit the changing needs of the Indian Infrastructure industry.

Greaves, a Rs 1200 crore, multi-product, multi-locational company is one of the leading engineering companies In India, with core competencies in infrastructure equipment and diesel/petrol engines. The company sustains ist leadership through nine manufacturing units which produce world class products backed by comprehensive marketing and service/parts network throughout the country.

MACHINIST