Surya Roshni Sets up Another Facility

Surya Roshni Sets up Another Facility

New Delhi-based lighting major Surya Roshni Ltd, has set up another

manufacturing facility at Malanpur in Madhya Pradesh. “The new unit will manufacture high mast poles, making the company a total lighting solution provider,” confirms Gulshan 

Aghi (gaghi@sroshni.com), executive president and CEO of the company.

Spread over 48 acres, the installation’s capacity will be 1,00,000 million tonnes per annum of steel fabrication and galvanisation. The convergence of these two streams of steel and lighting would witness the manufacturing of 4,000 high mast and 30,000 octagonal poles in the first phase, along with galvanised swaged poles, highway crash guards, lighting monopoles and stadium masts. “The unit will be equipped with sophisticated computercontrolled machines from YSD, a Chinese firm which manufactures machines with technology from Belgium. We are also importing machines from Germany and USA for the facility. The galvanising bath, which measures 15.2x1.65x2.5 metres, will be the biggest in India,” Aghi informs. In the second phase, the company plans to expand its product portfolio to products for the power and telecom sector.

Once complete, this would the company’s third facility. As of now, Surya Roshni has manufacturing units in Kashipur (Uttarakhand) and Malanpur (MP), producing a wide range of GLS lamps, fl uorescent tube lamps, CFLs, auto halogen lamps, luminaires, special lamps, HID lamps, dichroic halogen lamps and various components. “Additionally,” Aghi avers, “we have a tie-up with AEC Illuminazione Srl of Italy and are marketing their innovative product range of street lights, tunnel lights and flood light fixtures.” 

Furthermore, the company has established a state-of-the-art R&D centre and laboratory at Noida, Uttar Pradesh. “The centre will be equipped with Mirror- Gonio-Photometer from LMT, Germany, which would ensure the development of energy-efficient luminaire optics of very high quality.”

Talking about other developments Aghi says, “With the coming up of the new manufacturing unit and laboratory, Surya Roshni is expected to become one of the country’s top three players in the luminaires and high mast and poles business within three years. While in terms of revenue the lighting business has a turnover of `600 crore, we are expecting a growth of 30% in the current fiscal.” 

On the retail front, the company plans to set up exclusive Surya Power shops for LED-based products in the next six months in all major metros. It currently has a strong presence in the retail market with 400 multi-brand dealers for luminaires and 75 exclusive dealers for its high mast business.

Posted in: Electrical Market News