Godrej & Boyce bag Rs 468 cr order from NPCIL for PHWR project

20 Jul 2021 CW Team

Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Limited (G&B), a flagship company of the Godrej Group, has bagged an order worth Rs 468 crore from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) to provide steam generators for pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWR) project of 700 MW.

The company told the media that the company's process equipment division will be providing the steam generators for the indigenous project and is the biggest order for the division to date.

In a nuclear power plant, steam generators are important equipment for generating clean, and reliable sources of power for baseload requirements, the statement said.

The steam generators will be produced in Dahej, Gujarat at the company's facility.

Godrej Process Equipment has been a major global fabricator of high-end critical static equipment for the process industry for decades now, said Hussain Shariyarr, business head of the company.

The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has designed Indian PHWRs, and one reactor is operational at Gujarat's Kakrapar.

More reactors are under construction at Gorakhpur village in Haryana, and Kakrapar, Rawatbhata in Rajasthan.

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