Infotech Enterprises Limited, a Hyderabad-based engineering and geographic information services provider, on Monday commenced operations from its new special economic zone (SEZ) facility in Visakhapatnam.
The new facility is the company’s sixth development centre, with the other five being at Madhapur and Manikonda in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Noida and Kakinada, and its first in an SEZ and second in a Tier-II town. The Visakhapatnam development centre, housed in a five-acre campus, has a built up area of 75,000 sft for accommodating 750 seats. The facility will house around 500 associates in Phase-I.
The centre will be working on delivering engineering services and solutions to Infotech’s customers in the offshore and marine segments, which include engineering of semi-submersible rigs, jack up rigs, drill ships, bulk carriers, construction support vessels, pipe lay barges, offshore supply vessels and dredgers. The engineering support provided from this centre will encompass all functional areas such as naval architecture, structural, mechanical, electrical and instrumentation.
“As part of our strategy to expand our operations in Tier-II cities, Vizag came as the obvious choice due to availability of highly-skilled resources, its infrastructure and lower cost base compared to Tier-I cities. This development centre will add a new dimension to our operations in India in providing high-value services to our customers globally at competitive rates,” Infotech chairman and managing director BVR Mohan Reddy said in a press release.
