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The Project Engineering Group (PEG) of Grindwell Norton Ltd (GNO) has the experience of executing all the new, expansion and modernization Projects of GNO at four Manufacturing locations namely Mumbai (Mora), Bangalore, Tirupathi and Nagpur, as well as the Saint-Gobain Group companies.

Since its inception in the early seventies, PEG has grown in skills and expertise and has several achievements to its credit. The Division is headquartered at Bangalore and mobilizes resources at any outstation location.

Also See : Track Record

PEG can offer services in the field of Design & Engineering, Planning, Project Management, Construction and Supervision, Erection & Commissioning. PEG is headed by Mr. M R Ramarathnam, General Manager - Projects, who has over 25 years experience in the above field. He leads a team of around 25 personnel from the Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, and Industrial Engineering fields.

Design & Engineering

PEG can provide the full spectrum of Design and technical back-up required for any project. Most of the designs are carried out in-house with the help of networked CAD setup based on Autocad - Release 14.

Project Management

Along with the design development, the planning and management of the entire Project is carried out through meticulous detailing and documentary back up, inclusive of budgets and time schedules. Indigenously developed Project Management Software is utilized for the timely and economical execution of the Projects. PEG lays special emphasis on completing the project to specifications within cost and time budgets.

PEG has it own Project Purchase and Accounting team to support its activities.

TRACK RECORD

GNO Projects Saint-Gobain Group Company Projects
Saint-Gobain Glass India Limited
Saint-Gobain Vetrotex India
Saint-Gobain Sekurit India Limited

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GNO Projects

Some of the major projects completed by the Division from Design, Engineering to Planning, Procurement, Installation & Commissioning are as follows :

Silicon Carbide Manufacturing Plant at Bangalore (1971) and Tirupati (1979)
Aluminium Oxide Manufacturing Plant at Bangalore
Modernization of Bonded Abrasives Plant at Mora, Uran
Coated Abrasives' Manufacturing Plants at Bangalore
Technical Ceramics Manufacturing Plant at Bangalore
State of the art Fused Cast Refractories' Plant at Bangalore
State of the art Bonded Abrasives Manufacturing Plant at Nagpur
Non-Woven Abrasives' Manufacturing Plant at Bangalore
Super Abrasives' Manufacturing facility at Bangalore
Indigenisation of Centralised Lubrication Systems and setting up of manufacturing /   assembly units (Grease and Oil Lubrication Systems at Bangalore)
Building of special purpose process machinery involving sophisticated Hydraulic,   Pneumatics and Electronic controls for various business groups of Grindwell Norton,   as well as for Saint-Gobain group companies
Engineering installation of High pressure Centralised Lubrication System for Steel &   Cement Plants
Effluent & Water Treatment Plants for several outside customers (now spun off as a   separate business)

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Saint-Gobain Group Company Projects

PEG, in recent years, has also been actively involved in a number of Saint Gobain Projects, which have all been successfully commissioned. Given below are the details of these projects :

Saint-Gobain Glass India Limited
§ Float Glass Project
The state of the art 550 TPD Float line has been set up at Sriperumbudur near Chennai and went on stream in June 2000. The project costed Rs.550 Crores. PEG was actively involved along with the Flat Glass branch of Saint-Gobain in constructing this greenfield project.

Besides playing a major role in construction of the Float line, PEG was entrusted the responsibility of sourcing and developing Raw Material options for the Float line - Silica Sand, Dolomite, Limestone, etc. An in-house laboratory was set up to evaluate the various options before finalisation.

PEG was also entrusted the turnkey responsibility of designing and constructing the Raw material processing plants of the Float line - Silica Sand Processing Plant at Tada in Andhra Pradesh, and the Dolomite processing plant at Siriperumbudur. Both these plants are now fully operational.

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Saint-Gobain Vetrotex India
§ Furnace Rebuild project
PEG was actively involved along with the SaintGobain Vetrotex International in rebuilding the glass fibre furnace and expanding capacity in the plant.

PEG successfully indegenized the manufacture of sophisticated Winders, used for winding of glass fibres. Sixteen such machines have been commissioned and are in regular use.

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Saint-Gobain Sekurit India Limited
§ Sidelites' Project
PEG was entrusted the responsibility of managing the above project. The project was commissioned at Bhosari Pune and is manufacturing Sidelites for the automobile industry. In addition to above, PEG is actively involved in proposing and implementing various technical improvements in the existing plants at Bhosari and Chakan.

 

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