L&T bags Rs 430 cr plant equipment export orders

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has bagged international orders of Rs 430 crore for construction of plant and equipment to a host of countries including the US, UK, Japan and France.

These contracts have been secured for gas development projects and construction of ammonia plants, petrochemical plants, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants from leading EPC contractors such as Kellogg Brown & Root, Bechtel, Foster Wheeler and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

L&T will engineer, fabricate and supply stainless steel heat exchangers and pressure vessels for an LNG plant in Australia under a contract from Foster Wheeler, UK; for the Air Liquide H2 Plant in France, L&T will supply a waste-heat boiler package; critical equipment for petrochemical plant - ethylene oxide reactors - will be supplied to China as well as filter vessels for downstream gassifiers; for a gas-to-liquid plant in Nigeria, L&T will supply waste heat boiler packages and auto thermal reformers; L&T has also received critical equipment orders for a petrochemical complex in Malaysia.

In an export contract to Egypt, L&T will supply critical equipment for an ammonia plant, including ammonia converter, unitised chiller and the secondary reformer. This order has been secured from US-based Kellogg Brown & Root.

The Gulf continues to be a major market for L&T's engineering and construction expertise.

The company has won orders for heat exchangers in stainless steel and Incoloy through Bechtel, UK, to the UAE.

The company also secured a repeat order for supply of Catofin reactors and a product splitter to a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia. For Oman, L&T will supply Urea reactors and a waste heat boiler package.

"The international orders affirmed L&T's status as a significant global player in the fabricated process plant equipment market. L&T will continue to strengthen its engineering capabilities with a view to maintaining its competitive edge in the international market, while simultaneously enhancing its quality and manufacturing technologies," said MV Kotwal, member of the board and senior vice president in charge of heavy engineering division of the company in a media statement.