News: Alstom opens global engineering centre in Kolkata

(BL 27/10/2006) Kolkata - Alstom Projects India Limited, a subsidiary of Alstom SA of France, on Friday inaugurated a global engineering centre at Salt Lake near here to serve the environmental control systems business across the globe.

Phillippe Joubert, President of Alstom Power, said that the Salt Lake facility would supply high-value engineering skills to projects executed not only in India, but also in North America and Europe.

About 70 per cent of the capacity of the centre would be dedicated to serve international customer needs. The Salt Lake centre would employ 250 people.

The environmental control systems business of Alstom specialises in air quality control systems for power generation and industrial process markets.

Alstom had successfully partnered with Indian companies such as NTPC, Nalco, Balco, Hindalco, Tata Steel and Grasim by helping them to reduce harmful emissions.

Joubert said that the company, a major player in the power equipment-manufacturing arena, was also in the process of expanding the capacity of boiler production at its plants at Durgapur and Shahabad.

Out of the global turnover of six billion Euros, one billion Euro was generated from the environmental control systems.