Kolkata-based Eastern Enviro Care Pvt. Ltd. (EECPL) on Monday announced a partnership with Czech firm ZZVZ-Enven Engineering for establishing a joint venture to manufacture air pollution control equipment and systems in West Bengal.
Over the next 9-12 months, the two companies will finalise plans for setting up a manufacturing facility as well as a design and engineering hub which is likely to cost up to Rs 50 crore. “We are still working out what we will manufacture ourselves and how much will be sub-contracted. We already has some land in Durgapur that can be used,” EEPCL chairman Aloke Mookherjea said.
On its part, ZZVZ said that manufacturing in India would give it a cost advantage of between 10-15 per cent. For the domestic market, the partnership will focus on the steel, cement, power and paper industries and subsequently could look at servicing the international markets.
