Crossing frontier: BHEL bags export orders from Togo, Benin

EXPANDING its footprint in the international market, state-run power equipment maker BHEL has secured export orders for supply of industrial motors to the African nations of Togo and Benin. Scancem International DA, Norway (Heidelberg Cement group) has placed the order for the motors...
for their cement plants, Ciments Du Togo S.A. & Cimbenin S.A, Benin, BHEL said in press release. With this, BHEL now has footprints in 80 countries across six continents.
According to the statement, the motors will be manufactured and supplied by BHEL’s Bhopal unit. BHEL has been present in the African continent almost since its export journey commenced 45 years back and has references today in almost half of the African continent.
India's largest engineering and manufacturing company recently built 500 MW Kosti Thermal Power Plant – the largest in Sudan. The plant was inaugurated by President of Sudan Omer Hassan Ahmed El-Basheer. The project came close on the heels of the successful commissioning of BHEL’s 28 MW Nyaborango Hydro project in Rwanda, 2×20 MW Steam Turbine and Generators for cogeneration application at Tendaho Sugar Factory in Ethiopia.
As an integrated power plant equipment manufacturer with over 50 years of experience and having installed over 170 GW globally, BHEL is currently engaged in the execution of all types/range of power equipment; thermal, gas, nuclear, hydro and solar, in addition to supplying products and systems to other major infrastructure sectors of the economy like transmission, transportation, oil & gas, defence and aerospace and water.