About Cethar Limited in Cethar Ltd 4, Dindigul Road,, Tiruchirappalli

History of Growth

Cethar Limited, founded in 1981 and commencing manufacturing in 1984, is the flagship company of the Cethar group of companies and operates with its head office in Tiruchirapalli, India. Growing from its modest origin as a small industry formed by a group of young, budding and energetic engineers, now it has established itself as a leading boiler manufacturer and EPC Contractor in India and has a reputation for supplying reliable products to the energy sector. New targets and standards are constantly being set up with customer focus at the forefront, which is reflected in the quality of its products and services.

Cethar's current line of manufacture includes Pulverised Coal Fired Boilers (Sub Critical and Super Critical / Ultra Super Critical), Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustion (CFBC) Boilers (Sub Critical and Super Critical), Bubbling Fluidized Bed Combustion (BFBC) Boilers, Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSG) behind Gas Turbines, Traveling Grate Boilers, Waste Heat Recovery Boilers, Oil & Gas fired boilers, Electro Static Precipitator (ESP), Industrial Fans for boiler application, Power Plant Piping systems, Water Treatment Plants, Cooling Towers for Thermal Power Plants, etc.

It has world class manufacturing facilities in Trichy, Tamil Nadu with an annual capacity of 8000 MW. This can produce 1,00,000 Tonnes of Pressure Parts annually. Further, company is now in the process of enhancing its capacity to 12,000 MW by December 2012. It has some of the critical machines such as Four Roll Plate Bending Machine capable of bending 220mm thick Drum plate, 20 torch Furnace panel welding machine, serpentine coil bending machines, Incremental pipe bending machines, Spiral fin welding machine, Stress relieving furnaces, etc. It is to be noted that Cethar Limited does not need to sub-contract any pressure part component.

Since its entry into Utility segment in 2006, Cethar Limited has so far contracted 14 Utility units (on EPC/ BTG/ Boiler), cumulating to 3460 MW. The unit sizes ranges from 60 MW up to 350 MW.

Cethar Limited is a Licensee of RileyPower Inc., USA, a group company of Babcock Power, USA for Pulverised Coal fired Boilers of Sub Critical pressure for capacity upto 600 MW unit size. This Licensing Agreement was signed on 6th August, 2007 and valid for 10 years.

Cethar Limited has also signed a Licensing Agreement with RileyPower Inc., USA, for both Supercritical and Ultra - Supercritical Boilers based on Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Benson Technology. This agreement was signed on 19th Jan 2010 and valid for 15 years.

Cethar Limited has entered into a Cooperation Agreement on November 14, 2008 with M/s. NeM B.V. The Netherlands for HRSG behind GT applications of 42 MW and above.

Further, Cethar has signed a Licensing Agreement with M/s. Kraftanlagen Munchen, Germany (KAM) on April 25, 2008 for Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply and Erection of Power Plant Piping for units above 200 MW.

Cethar is having long term Sourcing Agreement with M/s. Harbin Turbine Co., China (HTC) effective from September 18, 2007 for the supply of Steam Turbines and Generators with related auxiliary equipment. HTC is one of the most reputed turbine companies in China with global presence. HTC has supplied many Steam Turbine Generators ranging up to 1000 MW, of which some are for Nuclear Power Plants.

Currently Cethar has a robust order book of Rs. 7778.58 Crores. Present net worth of the company is Rs. 910.58 Crores