Vijayawada-based NPEW bags Rs 3 cr order

Narayana Prasad Electrical Works (NPEW), a leading manufacturer of state-of-the-art technology switchboards, engineers and contractors in the state, has recently bagged a Rs 3 crore order from a Karnataka sugar unit.

The Rs 2-crore NPEW has been undertaking designing, installation and commissioning of electrical power distribution in industries in ceramics, paper, textiles, solvent, chemicals and engineering sectors for over three decades.

Speaking to Business Standard, Narayana Prasad, managing director of NPEW, said that he had earlier designed and developed switchboards of draw-out type MCCs.

"In 1991, the company fixed the panels in the KCP sugar unit, a 4,000 tonne a day capacity factory at Lakshmipuram. The whole installation has reported zero maintenance and till date there has not been any complaint or snag in it. Similarly, the electrical installations I executed at Sarvaraya Sugar Factory, Jayalakshmi Spinning Mill, Spartek and a score of other major industries in Andhra Pradesh and other states are running with 100 per cent accuracy," he said.

NPEW is also exporting panels and has installed systems in Vietnam also. The company has installed electrical networks in a number of factories in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh.

The company's popular products and services include APFCR panels, process control panels, mimic panels, sequence panels, power control centres in single and two tier and double bus bar type, motor control centres in fixed, semi draw-out and draw-out type with single and double front, desk type control panels and bus ducts for indoor and outdoor.

"Though all our products subscribe to world standards, we have not so far been able to cater to the government sector. Quality, but not the price is the parameter in the private sector and there we have been able to ward off competition from multinational companies," Narayana Prasad said.

He said that industrial growth had received a setback after the information technology boom began in the state. "Governments, investors, talented youngsters are going crazy after the IT. But this will be only temporary and sooner or later good days will come back for the manufacturing sector," he said.

"The power sector had been badly neglected in the state. In China, power is supplied at 15 paise a unit while the same unit is available at Rs 3 in our state. Per head power consumption is the lowest in our country when compared with that in developed nations. Per head power consumption in our country is 220 units, the same in the UK and Germany is 900-1,000 units per head and 1,800 units in the US. Power generation in our state now stands at 10,000 megawatts. If we increase it to 90,000 megawatts, we would reach parity in power generation with Britain, France or Germany," he added.