Hemant Kumar Gupta, Sr. DGM & CPIO

Heavy Engineering Corporation Ltd.
Plant Plaza Road
P.O. : Dhurwa
Ranchi - 834004
 
E-mail : pio@hecltd.com
 
Tel No. : (0651) - 2401466

Fax No. : (0651) - 2401166
 

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HEC was incorporated on 31.12.1958 under the Companies Act, 1956. The company started production in the year 1964. It was established under the Ministry of Industry with the primary objective of achieving self sufficiency and self reliance in the field of design and manufacture of equipment and machinery for core sector, especially steel industries.  It was visualized at that time that one steel plant of one million ton capacity will be added every year in India, which however, did not materialize.  Consequently the demand for steel making machinery was never as high as it was expected.  Hence HEC diversified its area of operation in other core sectors like mining, railways, defence etc.  Currently, the company is engaged in the manufacture and supply of capital equipment, machine tools and spares needed for the core sector industries namely; steel, coal, cement, power, defence, aluminum, ship building and railways etc.

The head office and the plant of the company are situated in Ranchi capital of the newly formed state Jharkhand.  The company has its marketing offices in New Delhi and Kolkata.

2.         Capital Base :

The authorised capital of the company is Rs. 500 crores and the paid  up  capital is Rs.453.24 crores. 

3.0       Existing Plant Facilities, Products and Past Collaborations :

3.1       More than 7000 acres of land had been conveyed to the company at the time of its incorporation by Govt. of Bihar for its use.  The company has built plants, administrative office and township on this land.

3.2       The company was set up with the capability to manufacture steel plant equipment that can enhance the steel producing capacity by one million tones per annum. The company has three manufacturing units and one project and consultancy division viz.

(i)         Foundry Forge Plant (FFP)

(ii)        Heavy Machine Building Plant(HMBP)

(iii)       Heavy Machine Tool Plant (HMTP)

(iv)       Turnkey Project Division (TKP)

3.3       The installed capacity of the plant units is as follows:-

(i)         FFP:     44000 T of casting and forgings

(ii)        HMBP:  40,000 T of equipment and structures

(iii)       HMTP:   120 nos. of machine tools.

3.4       The details of facilities available, the products and the past collaborators of the plant are as follows:-

3.4.1     FOUNDRY FORGE PLANT (FFP)

The plant was established in collaboration with SKODAEXPORT of erstwhile CSSR and equipped with facilities for melting, heavy and medium casting, all types of forging and machining.Some of the major facilities installed in the plant are as follows:-

(a)        Induction furnaces of capacity 0.5 t, 2t and 3t.

(b)        Arc furnaces of capacity 5t, 10t, 20t and 60t.

(c)        Vacuum arc degassing furnace of capacity 60t.

(d)        Hydraulic forge presses of capacity 6000t, 2650t, 1650t and 1000t.

(e)        3t hammer, a series of small free forgings hammers and die forging presses.

(f)         Various ranges of machine tools including one lathe of 53m bed length.

(g)        Low frequency induction hardening machine for CRM rolls (25 mm depth).

(h)        Centrifugal casting facility for slender bushes (350 mm dia and 1m long).

(i)        Horizontal and vertical mist quenching equipment for quality heat treatment producer gas plant, oxygen plant.

The plant has also acquired technical know-how from the following agencies at the time of its inception :-

(a)        M/s Hitachi of Japan for updating forgings and forged roll technology.

(b)        M/s Creusot Loire of France for manufacture of diesel locomotive crankshafts.

(c)        M/s National Forge of USA for nitriding and machining of diesel locomotive crankshafts.

It manufacturers the following products:-

(a)        Medium and heavy castings/forgings for coal, defence, railway power and other engineering sector - iron castings weighing upto 100t, steel castings weighing upto 90t, non-ferrous castings weighing upto 1t and forgings weighing upto 20t.

(b)        Rolls for hot rolling mill and cold rolling mill of steel plant.

(c)        Crankshafts for railways.

(d)        Rolling mills, slabbing mills, blooming mills, SG iron rolls etc.

In addition this plant has also developed the following critical products:-

(a)        Armour plate forging for defence

(b)        Turret castings for defence.

(c)        Propeller shafts for Navy.

3.4.2        HEAVY MACHINE BUILDING PLANT (HMBP)

The plant was established in collaboration with ROMASEXPORT of erstwhile CSSR and equipped with facilities for machining, gear cutting, heavy structurals and heat treatment.  The plant comprises the following shops:-

(a)         Heavy Machine Shop

(b)         Medium and small machine shop

(c)         Reduction gear shop

(d)         Block of coke oven shop

(e)         Heat treatment and forging shop

(f)          Tools shop

(g)         Repair shop

(h)         Structural fabrication shop.

Some of the major facilities installed in the plant are as follows:-

(a)         Giant lathe (SOB:4 m, CD:20m)

(b)         CNC vertical turning and boring machine (job dia, 14m, job weight 250t)

(c)         CNC plano milling machine (job size 3.5mx7mx2.5m,job weight 120t).

(d)         CNC Horizontal boring machine (200 mm spindle dia x 18 m col.travel)

(e)         CNC flame cutting machine (Max job size 25mx6.2m upto 500 mm thick).

(f)          Gear cutting machine (max job dia 5m, max. module 40mm hobbing).

The plant has also acquired technical know-how from the following agencies at the time of its inception :-

(a)         M/s Schloemann Siemag (SMS) of Germany for Continuous Casting Plants.

(b)         M/s Lurgi GmbH of Germany for Sinter Plants.

(c)         M/s MANN of Germany for special purpose cranes.

(d)         M/s Bucyrus-erie of USA for 10 cu.m. excavators.

(e)         M/s Ransom and Rapier of UK for walking draglines.

(f)          M/s GHH Sterkrade of Germany for Mine winders and vertical transportation system.

(g)         M/s Orenstein and Koppel (O&K) AG of Germany for Hydraulic excavators.

The plant designs and manufactures equipment and spares for the following:-

(a)        Steel plants.

(b)        Coal/mining equipment viz. 5 and 10 cu.m. rope shovels, hydraulic shovels, draglines, crushers and grinders, material handling equipment etc.

(c)        Aluminium, power, defence ,space research and atomic energy etc.

It has also a design and technology wing manned with trained and experienced engineers. Some of the major equipment successfully designed by HMBP are as follows:-

Steel plant equipment
 

(a)         Sinter plant equipment (75 sq.m. to 312 sq.m.)

(b)         Coke Oven batteries (4.3 m to 7 m tall ovens).

(c)         Blast furnace (1033 cu.m. to 3200 cu.M)

(d)         Steel melting shop equipment (100t to 300t LD converter)

(e)         Continuous casting plant (for slabs/blooms/billets)

(f)          Rolling mill equipment including 3600 mm plate mill

(g)         EOT crane (upto 450t capacity).

Mining equipment
 

(a)         Draglines upto 24 cu.m. capacity and 96m boom.

(b)         Electric rope shovels (5/10/12.5 cu.m. capacity).

(c)        Primary gyratory, secondary and tertiary cone crushers and double toggle jaw crushers of various sizes.

(d)        Mine winders upto drum dia 4.6m

(e)        Folding cum-vertical repositioning platform for India Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

3.4.3     HEAVY MACHINE TOOLS PLANT (HMTP)

The plant was established in collaboration with SKODA of erstwhile, CSSR and equipped with facilities for manufacturing heavy machine tools-both conventional and CNC version.  It has also design and R&D wing manned with trained and experienced engineers.  The plant is equipped with CNC machine tools, conventional machine tools, induction hardening equipment etc.  Subsequently, the plant has also acquired technical know-how from the following agencies at the time of its inception except M/s HEGENSCHEIDT:-

(a)        M/s HERCULES of Germany for roll grinding machines

(b)        M/s HEGENSCHEIDT of Germany for railway lathes

(c)        M/s O-M of Japan for vertical borers.

(d)        M/s BOEHRINGER of Germany for plano-milling machines

The plant designs and manufactures equipment and spares for the following:-

(a)        Special purpose railway machine tools

(b)       CNC & Conventional machine tools in the medium and heavy rang for core sectors and defence like vertical turning and boring machine, roll turning lathe, roll grinding machine, deep hole boring machine, planer, plano-milling machine etc.

It also has also a fully equipped development wing and design section with CAD center, prototype assembling and testing facilities and manned with qualified and experienced engineers.  HMTP has successfully indigenised the design of machine tools –both conventional and CNC version.

3.5       For movement of the materials within the plant and upto Hatia railway yard (nearest railway station) HEC has its siding of approx. 100 kms. of railway lines served by its own diesel engines (8 nos.) and wagons (125 nos.).  The company has power generating facilities consisting of 4 nos. of DG sets each of 2.8 MW in FFP and 1 no of 3.5 MW of DG set in HMBP as standby arrangement.

3.6              Recent Performance

a)              Production.

(Rs. Crores)

b)             Net Sales

(Rs. Crores)

c)            Order Position

The order book position of the company has also improved considerably. The order booked by the company for the last three years is as follows:--

(Rs. Crores)

After a gap of six years, the company has been able to get an order worth Rs.134 crores for setting up a Coal Handling Plant at Northern Coal Field Ltd.

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