Vedanta-controlled Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (BALCO) has won two international awards for the innovative fuse technology.
A press note issued by the company said that BALCO was the only Indian company to be short listed from over hundred organizations across the world that entered the European Aluminium Award 2008, and the Ideas UK 2008 Competitions.
The Balco fuse technology was designed, developed and implemented by the Plant II in order to eliminate frequent disturbances to the power plant operations. This technology was entered in the competition for Industrial Design and Engineering in Aluminium.
It won a special prize for Product Technique in the mechanical engineering and electronics category of the European Aluminium Award 2008, held in Germany.
The technology also won the Ideas UK 2008 award in the technology category. Ideas UK is a professional organization that deals with suggestion schemes and ideas management.
This year 35 entries were short-listed from a total of 97 entries received by the Ideas UK. The short-listed ideas were from International companies like Dubal, Emirates, Ministry of Defence UK Government, Ricoh, UK Police, Lloyds TSB, HSBC, Balco and others. J Ramaswamy, senior Vice President (QA & Technology) of the company, discussed the design, its principle, the importance of the fuse in the pot lines and the ultimate cost savings to the organization on account of its implementation. In view of the innovation, Bharat Aluminium Company was voted the winning organization of the technology trophy.
