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Saint-Gobain Glass India plans to invest Rs 400 crore to set up a facility to manufacture base glass for solar photo voltaic modules. At present, the company imports glass from its parent company's plants located overseas to cater to the domestic market.
“The company is working on as to where to locate the new facility — in Chennai, Tamil Nadu or at Bhiwadi, Rajasthan. A decision to this effect will be taken by March-end,” Mr B. Santhanam, Managing Director, Saint-Gobain Glass India, told Business Line .
The capacity of the new plant is expected to be around 500 MW a year.
The company's second glass plant in the country, being built with a budget of Rs 1,500 crore, is fast coming up at Bhiwadi, Rajasthan. “The Bhiwadi plant is being taken up in phases. In phase-I, Rs 900 crore is being invested to create new production lines and is expected to be commissioned by December 2011,” said Mr Santhanam.
“The phase-II has a budget of Rs 600 crore and will be taken up based on the capacity utilisation of phase-I,” he added.
When the second plant is commissioned at Bhiwadi, the company plans to sell 60 per cent of the glass produced in the domestic market.
Specialised glass centre
The company is also planning to upgrade the Chennai plant. “From 2000 to 2010, we have spent nearly Rs 1,600 crore and a few machines need to be replaced. Also, as part of expansion, we plan to add a specialised glass centre,” said Mr Santhanam.
Saint-Gobain Glass India sponsored the ‘Transparence 2010' held recently at Hubli. Transparence is a countrywide design competition for students of architecture. This year's event, attracted 600 entries from 120 colleges.
Shomathew, Surikrishna, Shidarth of SPA College, New Delhi, won the ‘Transparence 2010' trophy.
The first runner-up and second runner-up were Shruti of M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore and Ankan Prasad, Somaraj and Kritikasha of Bengal Engineering College, Kolkata respectively
Transparence 2010 awards ceremony was held as part of the National Association of Students of Architecture (NASA) convention held at BVB College, Hubli.
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