Ennore Foundries on track
11 December 2006
Ennore Foundries has been quietly expanding its auto castings. V Jagannathan reports
Chennai:
Fifty eight year old V Mahadevan, managing director
of Ennore Foundries Limited and vice president of
the Institute of Indian Foundrymen has his hands full
these days. For the castings company, one of the largest
for the auto sector, is not only expanding capacities
and modernising its existing units at Hyderabad and
Ennore (outlay Rs45 crore) but also setting up a Rs144-crore
greenfield unit at Sriperumbudur, near Chennai.
"The machinery installation is under progress. Post expansion the annual capacity at Ennore will be 60,000 tonnes and at Ductron Castings unit (DCU), Hyderabad will be 36,000 tonnes," he explains.
Similarly, the progress in respect of the new 50,000-tonne per annum plant to manufacture grey and S G Iron castings is also progressing well with the company meeting the deadlines. Nearly forty per cent of the production can be dedicated for exports.
Ennore Foundries is also in the advanced stages of acquiring additional 40 acres to build machining facilities, LPDC line for cylinder heads and HPDC line for blocks. "The new plant is scheduled to commence commercial production during the second quarter of the next fiscal."
According to him there are plans to set up windmills for power generation for the new plant.
