Thermax, on 17 April 2006, announced
that the boiler & heater group of the company bagged its single largest order
valued at Rs.360 crore from a leading business house for their new petroleum
refinery. This order involves design, manufacture, supply, erection and
commissioning of auxiliary boilers and heat recovery steam generator, which is
to be fitted to gas turbine - Frame 9 Machines. The entire steam generation from
the plant will be approximately 2,500 tonne of steam per hour.
While Thermax has not specified the
client placing the order, it is most likely to be Reliance Petroleum. The order
would pertain to the 27 million tpa Jamnagar petroleum refinery in Gujarat.
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