We have, over the last few years, worked with many reputed corporates who are big-time global EPC contractors. These companies, by virtue of their sheer size and their ability to take up large projects of considerable value, offer scopes to individual manufacturers of equipment like us, without whose help, we would not have been able to participate in such bids directly.

We wish to talk about some such projects and our experience working with both EPC organisations as well as end users. The relationships built from such contracts have brought us to the forefront of recognition by the end-user, apart from creating an unbreakable trust with these EPC companies.

1.      We start this exercise in India with Larsen & Toubro

One of our founding directors is an ex-L&T staffer having spent over 16 years with this engineering giant. Since he left L&T to become an independent entrepreneur, the company has grown by leaps and bounds and is considered the undisputed leader in construction and engineering.

We did several small projects with L&T including bio-medical waste incinerators supplied to Sri Satya Sai Multi Speciality Hospital, Whitefield, a 333 bedded hospital which was built by L&T in a record 11 months.

The more challenging one was a project executed by us through L&T ECC for Cairn Energy, Barmer, Rajasthan, for disposal of hazardous wastes such as oily sludge at the oil well drilling site. This was Haat’s incinerator model SRD with other ancillary equipment such as a gas scrubber, PLC panel, liquid waste disposal system, etc. with all instruments and electricals rated for hazardous area Zone 2.   Both Cairn and L&T obviously took into account our experience with Reliance Industries for their KGD6 project.  The fascinating comparison between the two projects is that while KGD6 was for deep-sea drilling at 2500 metres below the Bay of Bengal sea bed, the Cairn project was for a shallow 400 m drilling, but in the Rajasthan desert!

More to follow in forthcoming blogs.