Edit this postKalpataru Power Transmission (KALPOWR) was incorporated in 1981 as HT Power Structure. It became KALPOWR in 1994. The promoters, Kalpataru group, hold over 76% of the equity. The company`s activities include designing, testing, fabrication, erection and construction of transmission lines and sub-station structures on a turnkey basis across India and overseas.
The construction division has been involved in the survey, foundation/civil works, erection and stringing of more than over 6,500 km of turnkey projects in India for various clients such as the Power Grid Corporation of India and various State Electricity Boards (SEBs). About 400,000 MT of towers and substation structures have already been designed, manufactured and supplied over the last few years, of which over 100,000 MT have been exported.
Over 200 tower tests of 132-500 KV have been carried out successfully, including 100 at the company`s own testing station. Kalpataru Power has two large fabrication plants with an annual installed capacity of 78,000 MT, one of the largest in the world. It is equipped with modern machineries (including seven CNC machines) and automated temperature controlled galvanizing baths, besides its own state-of-the-art testing station and R&D center to test towers up to 800 KV.
The company has exported tower parts to Mexico, Peru, Turkey, Algeria, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, UAE, Syria and Australia and many other Middle East and African countries. It has executed jobs for reputed international companies such as ABB, Alstom, EnelPower, Sumitomo, Downer, Cobra, ..etc. The company is technically pre-qualified for domestic and international tenders and has executed jobs funded by the World Bank, ADB, JBIC/OECF and Arab Fund. KALPOWR has entered into new strategic areas of business; firstly, civil works for power projects, in which company has secured multiple jobs from BHEL, L&T (at IOCL, Panipet) and civil works for Coal Handling plant at Dadri (NTPC). It has also made a break through in the water pipeline segment with its first job in Ahmedabad with further more jobs expected shortly, mostly projects funded by ADB, World Bank and/or JNURM.
