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L&T flags off world’s heaviest LC-Max reactors ahead of schedule

Achieving another milestone in the engineering world, the Heavy Engineering business of Larsen & Toubro, has completed and flagged off World’s Heaviest LC-Max Reactors ahead of schedule in the presence of MK Surana, Chairman & Managing Director, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation.

Bringing high cooling efficiency to Indian port

Golden Shipping & Trading is using seven SDLG wheel loaders to efficiently run operations in Visakhapatnam Port in India.

Most of our attachments are purpose-built

DOZCO range of customised attachments meets the rigorous demands of several industry-specific applications. Pankaj Kumar, Vice President, DOZCO (India) shares more on the market and product trends.

Ports of Opportunities

Capacity expansion plans at Indian ports is giving a renewed hope for port equipment players. Many port operators are acquiring new equipment as part of modernisation and expansion of handling capacities at these ports.

KIOCL to explore iron ore, gold in two states

KIOCL will take up exploration of iron ore and gold in Tirupur (Tamil Nadu) and Mysuru (Karnataka), respectively. Union Steel Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh said that KIOCL has also been recognised as a mineral exploration entity under the MMDR Act 1957 for carrying out works in the country.

Winning the Heart With Productive Output

Visakhapatnam Port is one of the 13 major ports in India and is the only major port in Andhra Pradesh. It was built in 1930 and has three harbours - the outer harbour, the inner harbour and the fishing harbour.

We see Excon as a business facilitator

Post GST, the construction equipment (CE) sector in India had a short term hit. Retail hiring segment was adversely effected, as it is more of unorganised sector.

Our plan is to have a production facility to build dredges for the local market

I have been involved in the Dredging business since 1982 and my mission is to make our clients successful so that they can grow their business and come back to us to buy more dredges. Charles Sinunu, Director - International Dredge Sales, DSC Dredge, USA, elaborates more on the company and its business.

My vision is to have a manufacturing arrangement in place to build our dredges for the local market

This is an ongoing process. We first entered the Indian market about 10 years ago with some of our smaller dredges. In fact, I was in contact with one of our customers working at Visakhapatnam who sent a recommendation that they are satisfied with their DSC dredge which had completed 50,000 hours nonstop.

We wish to be a major tier-1 supplier in selected industries in ten years

Cyient was founded in 1991 and this year marks the 25th anniversary of our brand promise?Designing Tomorrow Together.? Today, we are a $472 million company built on our Values FIRST principle (Fairness, Integrity, Respect, Sincerity and Trust).

ADB to fund for India?s first coastal industrial corridor

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $631 million to develop the first 800-km section of a planned 2,500-km-long East Coast Economic Corridor.

ADB to fund for India's first coastal industrial corridor

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved $631 million to develop the first 800-km section of a planned 2,500-km-long East Coast Economic Corridor. The Visakhapatnam-Chennai Industrial Corridor section of the East Coast Economic Corridor, connecting four economic hubs and nine industrial clusters, will mark the first industrial corridor developed along India's coast.

Witnessing Quantum Jump

In light of the various infrastructure development initiatives by our government and expansion plans declared by various related agencies, the Bulk Material Handling Equipment (BMHE) sector

Nasscom plans warehouse in Vizag

Apex IT industry body Nasscom will set up a warehouse in port city Visakhapatnam under its -?10,000 Startups? initiative to nurture technology entrepreneurs with innovative ideas.

GDL starts construction of new Logistics Park

Gateway Distriparks Ltd (GDL) has commenced construction of its Logistics Park at Krishnapatnam Port in Andhra Pradesh after receiving all necessary state government approvals.

Gangavaram Port conducts mega medical camp

Gangavaram Port organised a mega medical camp for the local community people in the surrounding area. The camp was conducted at Nadupuru High School, Peda Gantyada Mandal, Visakhapatnam

Moulding the Future

Dozco India has been providing hands-on training to the staff of Dozco and its customers through its well-equipped state-of-the-art training centres at Dhanbad and Visakhapatnam.

We are the market leader in southern parts of India

Detroit Mining and Construction Equipment is a dealer for SDLG range of wheel loaders and motor graders for all the four states in South India. We have our corporate office in Hyderabad, with branches at Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Nellore.

Plea to ease norms for mining beach sand minerals

Mining Engineers' Association of India has said that the government should ease rules and procedures for giving leases for exploration of beach sand minerals that are found in abundance on India's large coastline.

Trimex Sands to expand at Rs 150 cr

To increase its production capacity to about 4.5 lakh tonne per annum (ltpa) heavy minerals producer Trimex Sands is to invest about Rs 150 crore. Currently the company produces about 3 ltpa heavy minerals. Majority of this is Ilmenite. Now it plans to invest about Rs 150 crore on expansion, mostly on creating new manufacturing facilities but everything is subject to securing various clearances, the company said in Visakhapatnam.

Dozco promises the outmost quality, reliability and timely after sales services

Dozco supplies hydraulic and rock breakers for excavators of any make from 2 tonne to 140 tonne. We also supply Pulverisers, to demolish concrete roofs, building and other geographical structures. Further, Dozco is also focused on the production of various types of chisels, the most important consumable of breakers.

Vizag civic body fares better in road repairs

When it comes to maintenance of roads in urban area, the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) appears to be faring better than its counterparts in other cities. Although the roads at many places have undergone repeated patchwork repairs in Vizag, they are somehow holding through and have not proved hazards to the road-users even during the heavy rain, say residents of the city.

Court issues notices on PIL

Media reports indicate that the Andhra Pradesh High Court issued notices to the concerned authorities in response to a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the granting of the Bayyaram mining lease to Rashtriya Ispat Nigam (Visakhapatnam Steel Plant). JayaPrakasha Rao, retired associate professor of Osmania University, and two others of Khammam district filed a PIL with the court challenging the state government's decision to grant iron ore mining lease to the

Coal shortage hits generation at NTPC?s Simhadri plant

Shortage of coal supply at Visakhapatnam NTPC?s Simhadri super thermal power station has hit the power generation. The power station has been unable to generate power optimally since a month due to the acute shortage of coal supply, which can only add to the state?s power woes. The generation loss due to shortage of fuel supply has been 325 million units on June 3.

KIAPL expects phase I of Vizag project in 2014

The first phase of the calcium aluminate cement production facility being set up by Kerneos India Aluminate (KIAPL) in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh could be completed in 2014. The company is setting up the facility at Atchuyutapuram in Visakhapatnam on a 20 acre land bought from the AP Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC

Ports in Andhra witness decline in ore cargo

The hike in export duty on iron ore, increase in railway freight rates for export cargo of ore and the ban on illegal ore mining affected exports of the raw material. Gangavaram Port exported only 271,000 tonne this year as against 2.1 million tonne last fiscal. Other ports in Andhra Pradesh Visakhapatnam and Kakinada deep water ports lost 30 per cent in iron ore cargo traffic during 2012-13. In 2011-12, Kakinada Port

Quality and after sales service make us stand out in the rock breaker segment

Dozco has a wide network of 19 branches strategically located in different parts of India to extend after-sales support for its custo?mers.With its extended network Dozco is now able to provide service and spares with in very less time, says Pankaj Kumar, Vice President (Equipment Sales), Dozco India.

Sandvik's Jumbo Drill at Work

Four Sandvik DT 820 underground drill rigs have virtually completed drill and blast duties on more than 6 km of tunnelling for Hindustan Construction (HCC), producing in excess of 1.8 million tonne of rock spoil on the country's first crude oil storage caverns at Vizag.

On A Solid Foundation

The market for foundation equipment appears to be quite buoyant with increased demand in the infrastructure segment, particularly in the power, steel, ports and transportation sectors.

Sandvik Jumbos on the Job

Indian contractor Hindustan Construction Company is using four Sandvik DT820 underground drill rigs to construct the country's first underground crude oil storage cavern at Vizag, Andhra Pradesh.

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