Ranchi Express reported that Heavy Engineering Corporation Limited has bagged a prestigious order worth INR 500 crore amid tough global competition for manufacturing a coal handling plant for Steel Authority of India Limited’s Bhilai Steel Plant. The project has to be completed within 30 months from the date of award of work by the steel plant.

The work order includes the design, engineering, manufacture, supply, testing and commissioning of the coal handling plant from concept to designing. The major equipment to be supplied by HEC includes wagon tippler, electric car pushers, conveyors, civil and structural work and associated auxiliary equipments.

This is the second time in February 2008 that Heavy Engineering has bagged a massive order for the Bhilai Steel Plant, bringing its total work order from a single source to a whopping INR 700 crore. Earlier, on February 1st 2008, it had clinched an order for augmentation of ore handling plant at Bhilai Steel for a total value of INR 200 crore.

Heavy Engineering got the order after competing with Larsen & Toubro, McNally Bharat Engineering Co and Elecon Engineering.