Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel), the country’s largets power equipment manufacturer has bagged Engineering Export Promotion Council (EEPC)’s Top Export Award for the year 2006-2007.
The award, conferred on Bhel in the category ‘Star Performer in 2006-07 : Project Exports - Large Enterprise’, was presented by Pranab Mukherjee, union minister for external affairs.
Bhel is the largest domestic supplier of power plant equipments in the country with an order book of above 50,000 crore.
The company received export orders worth Rs 2311 crore from twenty six countries in the last financial year (2007-2008).
Currently, under its strategic plan, the company is planning a six-fold increase in its physical exports by 2012.
Bhel has a manufacturing capacity of about 10,000 Mw which it plans to ramp it up to 15,000 mw by 2010.