Crompton Greaves Ltd has announced setting up of an Ultra High Voltage (1,200 kv) research centre here as a part of its global research and development.

“(After) having achieved leadership position in the manufacture of high voltage power products up to 800 kv, now we are setting up this Ultra High Voltage (UHV) research centre in city’s Ambad industrial estate plan,” Mr S.M. Trehan, Managing Director of CGL, said today.

After laying the foundation stone of UHV research centre here, Mr Trehan told presspersons that research activities planned here would tremendously enhance the company’s technological capabilities in the advanced technological arena.

The company is making an initial investment of Rs 40 crore for the centre and will further augment the infrastructure in the next three years by spending additional Rs 20 crore, he said.

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