Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen and Grasim to form joint venture in India

Oct 25, 2019

Posted by Patrick Haddad

Grasim Industries Limited has signed a definitive agreement to form a Joint Venture Company in India with Germany’s Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen GmbH.

The Joint Venture will focus on the manufacturing and sale of Composite Hollow Core Insulators (CHCI). The company, to be known as Aditya Birla Power Composites Limited (ABPCL), will set up a state-of-the-art CHCI manufacturing plant at Halol, Gujarat, India.

This joint venture brings together Aditya Birla Insulators (a unit of Grasim), the 3rd largest global Porcelain Insulator player and Reinhausen Power Composites (a Unit of MR), the 2nd largest Hollow Composite Insulator player globally, with over five decades of combined experience in the insulator industry.

ABPCL will build a fully integrated CHCI plant at Halol, bringing the latest technology for Composite Hollow Insulators from Europe. It will serve the insulator requirements of Indian and global OEMs in the Power Equipment industry, helping them to enhance their product proposition for the T&D Utilities worldwide.

Composite Hollow Core insulators are the fastest–growing segment of insulators, and improves the performance as well as safety of power equipment. This facility will be the first such large scale plant for this range of products in India and will be the largest such plant outside of China.

Mr. Kalyan Ram Madabhushi, CEO – Global Chemicals and Group Business Head – Fertilisers and Insulators, Aditya Birla Group, says, “As an insulating solutions provider to power industry for over 50 years, this venture is a natural next step for Grasim to expand into the Composite Hollow Insulator segment and we are happy to partner with the global quality leader in this segment, MR. Through cutting-edge technology and world-class manufacturing, this JV will offer high-end competitive, innovative and sustainable solutions to our customers globally, and reaffirms our commitment to Make-in-India to serve the world.”

Dr. Nicolas Maier-Scheubeck, CEO of the Reinhausen Group, says, “We look forward to expanding our presence to India, which is not just an attractive market but also a very competitive location for manufacturing such a high-quality product. We are delighted to partner with such a large and reputed group, the Aditya Birla Group, for this venture, sharing our focus on quality and customer performance.”

Source: Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen

Photo (for illustrative purposes): JV MR Grasim Oct 2019 / MR / With Permission