Refex Refrigerants to supply Tata Motors

Chennai: The Chennai-based hydro fluorocarbons (HFC) company Refex Refrigerants Limited will start supplies to Tata Motors Limited''s car plant in Pune. The company will be setting up two 25-tonne storage tanks at the car manufacturer''s plant and supplies are expected to start early next year.

Refex Refrigerants is, engaged in the business of refilling imported non-ozone depleting refrigerant gases, known as hydro fluorocarbons (HFC), which are environment-friendly with zero-ozone depleting properties, unlike CFCs or chlorofluorocarbon gases, which they seek to replace. It is a joint venture with Kaltech Engineering & Refrigeration Pte. Ltd, Singapore. (See: Refex tanks up profit from HFC)

Disclosing this Anil Jain, managing director, Refex Refrigerants, says, "The tanks are being built at an outlay of Rs80 lakh. Our gas will be used in majority of the air conditioned cars rolled out of Tata Motor''s Pune plant."

Refex Refrigerants will lay pipelines from the storage tanks up to the point where the air conditioners are fitted inside the car plant.

The Tata deal is the second such deal for Refex Refrigerants. Earlier it had signed up with Hyundai Motor India Limited to build another two 25-tonne capacity storage tanks at the Korean automaker''s a second plant, which will have a capacity to roll out 3 lakh cars per year.

"We will be the sole supplier for Hyundai Motor''s second plant and the revenue potential is around Rs12.5 crore per annum," adds Jain. The car company''s first plant is serviced by SRF Limited.

The setting up of storage tanks frees the car manufacturer the bother of managing the cylinders. The car companies used to stock several cylinders stocked with the gas. Similar to the oxygen cylinders stored by hospitals.