Indian giant with a global presence

BHEL is India’s largest engineering and manufacturing enterprise in the energy sector manufacturing over 180 products under 30 major groups for the core sectors - Power Generation and Transmission, Industry, Transportation, Renewable Energy, Oil Exploration, etc

With an annual turnover of over Rs 18,700 crore (US $4 billion), BHEL has been rated as one of the top ten wealth creating corporations in India and the No.1 wealth creating Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) in the country in the last 10 years in a Business Today survey.

BHEL is the only PSU to figure in the Forbes Asia annual ‘Fabulous 50’ list of Asia-Pacific’s best publicly traded companies with long-term profitability, sales and earnings growth.

BHEL has been rated as ‘Star Public Sector Company’ by Business Standard.

Powering India towards progress

BHEL utility sets account for 80,783 MW (65% of total installed capacity of 1,25,414 MW in India) and generated an all-time high of 432.8 billion units (73% of the total power generated in the country during fiscal 2006-07). 

BHEL Tiruchirapalli Complex: Source for world class boilers

BHEL's Tiruchirapalli Complex is one of the leading boiler manufacturers in the world and India's largest engineering and manufacturing enterprises providing total boiler island solutions for utility, industrial, captive power and heat recovery applications. 

The BHEL Tiruchirapalli Complex comprises four units… 

High Pressure Boiler Plant (Tiruchirapalli)
Seamless Steel Tube Plant (Tiruchirapalli)
Piping Centre (Chennai) 
Industrial Valves Plant (Goindwal, Punjab)

The BHEL Tiruchirapalli Complex recorded a turnover of Rs 4575 crore in 2006-07 (up nearly 30% from the previous year) to become the first US $1 billion division of the BHEL Corporation. Profit before tax (PBT) rose by an unprecedented 103% to cross the Rs 800 crore mark.

State-of-the-art Manufacturing Facilities 

BHEL’s manufacturing facilities are comparable with the best in the world with modern design, engineering, material preparation, fabrication, welding, heat treatment, handling, testing and shipping facilities. 

BHEL’s Tiruchirapalli Complex has a covered area of over 2,50,000 sq metres with direct railway lines for quick and easy transportation of heavy components through the vast Indian railway network that connects even remote parts of the country.

The biggest ever investment scheme is currently under implementation at the Tiruchirapalli Complex to enhance manufacturing capacity from 4000 MW to 5750 MW equivalent of power generation equipment per annum by 2007 in Phase-I and to 10000 MW per annum by 2009 in Phase-II.

International Product Quality 

BHEL offers customers worldwide a wide range of products and services that conform to the highest international quality standards and specifications with the added advantages of shorter delivery periods and competitive prices.

Centre for coal-based R&D 

BHEL's Tiruchirapalli Complex is the leading centre for coal-based research and development in India with hundreds of man-years of expertise in designing boilers for optimum performance using low grade fuels and high ash coals. 

In-house R&D facilities include the 6.2 MWe Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) Plant based on Pressurized Fluidized Bed Gasification, Asia’s Largest Fuel Evaluation Text Facility (FETF), sophisticated test rigs for atmospheric and circulating fluidized bed combustion, comprehensive solid and liquid fuel test burning facilities, metallurgical and chemical laboratories.

Proven Capability 

BHEL has supplied boilers and auxiliaries accounting for nearly 70% of the total installed thermal power generation capacity in India and has successfully exported boilers and boiler components to several countries, BHEL also continues to secure repeat orders from overseas customers for servicing and renovation of boilers. 

Widest range, state-of-the-art technology 

For power generation applications, BHEL designs, engineers, manufactures, supplies, erects and commissions boilers of any rating upwards of 30MW.

For higher capacities, BHEL also offers customers the option of once-through type or super-critical steam generators in addition to conventional natural and controlled circulation types.