The Hindu Business Line : L&T opens valve facility in China

Engineering and construction company Larsen & Toubro inaugurated its industrial valve manufacturing facility in Yancheng, located in the Jiangsu Province of China.

The new facility, with a built-up area of 30,000 square metres, will make gate, globe, check and ball valves.

At the inauguration, Mr A.M. Naik, Chairman & Managing Director of L&T, said the facility would expand the company's manufacturing presence in the world's fastest growing economy, adding valves to a range that comprises high-tech switchgear and the rubber processing machinery.

The valves manufactured in China would complement L&T's existing range of industrial valves and help it address the needs of its rapidly growing client base of global oil majors, he said.

Mr R.N. Mukhija, President, Electrical & Electronics Division, L&T; Mr A.K. Banerjee, Vice-President, Valves Business Group, L&T; and Mr Zhao Peng, Secretary of Yancheng Municipal Committee of CPC, along with Mr Li Qiang Mayor of Yancheng were present on the occasion.

Larsen & Toubro (Wuxi) Electric Co. Ltd. celebrated its first anniversary of operations of its Wuxi plant on November 19.

L&T RMC

During his visit to China, Mr Naik also visited Larsen & Toubro (Qingdao) Rubber Machinery Co. Ltd. L&T RMC is one of the three manufacturing plants of Larsen & Toubro Ltd, India, in China with an initial investment of $6 million.

Situated in Jiaonan in Shandong province, where 70 per cent of the tyre companies are located, L&T RMC will offer the rubber machineries to domestic and international tyre companies, an L&T release said.

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