BEL bags export award

By Our Corporate Bureau | 02 Aug 2006

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Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has bagged the Karnataka government award for outstanding performance in export, the gold award for electronics communications export, for the year 2004-05. VVR Sastry, director (marketing), BEL, received the award at a function in Bangalore.

BEL achieved exports of $12.5 million during 2004-05. The defence PSU exported a range of products to various countries, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Botswana, Egypt, Suriname, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Israel and the US.

The important export orders executed during 2004-05 include supply of spares of 3D radar TRS 2215 to the Indonesian Air Force; refurbishment of Cymbeline radar for Egypt; supply of laser range finders to Israel; supply of solar-powered traffic signalling system for 32 junctions to the ministry of public works, Surinam; supply of night vision devices and solar lanterns to the Surinam armed forces; supply of solar cells to Germany; and supply of X-ray parts to GEMS, USA.

BEL, with nine units in the country, is engaged in the design, development and manufacture of sophisticated state-or-the-art electronic equipment components for the use of the defence services, para-military organisations and other governmental users such as All India Radio, Doordarshan, department of telecommunications, meteorological department, police wireless departments, etc.

The company has state-of-the-art computer-aided design, manufacture and testing facilities as also facilities for carrying out environment and reliability checks, electro-magnetic interference/electro-magnetic compatibility testing, antenna testing, back-up support from standardisation, technical information and documentation.

Around 72 per cent of BEL's turnover comes from supplies to the defence services. The company meets a variety of equipment needs of the services, like radars, sonars, communication equipment and systems, Satcoms, tank electronics, electronic warfare equipment, etc that meet stringent defence specifications.

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