Voltech Marks it presence @ Singapore.

Voltech Group has marked its presence at Singapore with a new company being incorporated as “VOLTECH SINGAPORE PTE LTD” as per Singapore Companies act. The new office of Voltech is located at: 111, North Bridge Road, #16-04, Peninsula Plaza, Singapore (179098)

Vacuum Circuit Breaker solely manufactured by Voltech has been Type Teasted.

Vacumm Circuit Breaker a premium product of Voltech Manufacturing Company, has been successfully Type Tested by CPRI (Central Power Research Institute), Bangalore.

Voltech Lanka (Private) Limited has been successfully Registered

Our International Branch in Sri Lankan has been named as Voltech Lanka (Private) Limited as per the Sri Lankan Government's companies Act

Voltech Instrumentation and Engineering Pvt Ltd has become Voltech Infrastructure Pvt Limited

Voltech Instrumentation and Engineering Pvt Ltd a service unit in the field of Instrumentation has been renamed as Voltech Infrastructure Pvt Limited, with effect from 27th September, 2011.

Voltech Transformer Pvt Ltd has become Voltech Manufacturing Company Limited

Voltech Transformers Pvt Ltd a manufacturing unit in Voltech Group has been transformed to Voltech Manufacturing Company Limited, with effect from 21st September, 2011. All correspondence regarding Voltech Transformers Pvt Ltd will be done in the name of Voltech Manufacturing Company Limited.

Voltech Signs a Joint Venture with NanoPV Solar Inc. USA

Voltech as part of its business plan to venture into renewable source of energy particularly Solar Energy and a move to expand its base to USA signed a Joint Venture with NanoPV, USA on 29th April 2011.

A US based company NanoPV Solar Inc. having its office at New Jersey, USA with its specialization in manufacturing of Thin Film Silicon Solar Panel has inked in an agreement with Voltech to form a new entity “NanoPV Voltech Solar Private Limited - NVSPL” as a part of the joint venture. Chairman & Managing Director of Voltech Group , Mr. M Umapathi signed the agreement with Dr. Anna Selvan John , President NanoPV Solar Inc. at Chennai Office of Voltech on 29th April 2011. Both the parties articulated the need of Sincere and restless effort to make this venture a great success.

Under the New venture NanoPV will transfer the technology and knowhow of manufacturing of Solar Panels to NVSPL in a phased manner along with necessary equipments and technical support, further enabling NVPSIL to manufacture Solar panels in India of its own. The blue print to establish a plant to manufacture 10MW solar panel using thin film technology at Tamil Nadu will be prepared and discussed by an empowered team from NVPSIL will commence soon.

Mr. M Umapathi Chairman and Managing Director of Voltech Group in his message to the Group reiterated the commitment of the group companies towards the promotion on Renewable energy and expressed this new venture of Voltech as a small step towards a solution to the environmental issues created by the use of deficient and harmful Non Renewable Sources of Energy.

Voltech – NVSPL to put up a 1 MW Solar Power Plan at Thoothukudi

Voltech Group along with the Newly formed Joint Venture firm NVPSIL in association with NanoPV USA will put up a 1 MW Solar Power plant at Sillanatham, Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu.

The Newly planned Solar power plant is a part of Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) scheme under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Govt. of India. NVPSIL has been assigned the job of executing this project on behalf of Harison Power Pvt. Ltd. Chennai.

NVPSIL will be responsible for the complete turnkey project including the Site survey, leveling, design and construction of foundation base for mounting structure, internal roads and pathway, drains, cables, trenches, construction of control room etc in the phase I of the project , subsequently NVPSIL along with Voltech will be responsible for the complete plant engineering, supply of materials, errection up to final commissioning. This entire plant will be spread across an area of 11.4 acres and the complete project is expected to be commissioned by end of July 2011.

The unique feature of the project includes the use of Silicon - Thin Film Solar Cells Technology which facilitates generation of 19 Lakhs of units per year when compared to only 12 Lakhs of Unit using Multi Crystalline Silicon Technology. The other highlighted features includes proven double function thin film silicon PV Panel, Excellent temperature coefficient, low light sensitivity, no broken connections because of inter cell connectivity, better shadow resistance, low investment cost and positive energy pay back.

The new Joint Venture of Voltech will be a big break though in the Solar power Industry and will be a reliable and consistent partner for the Govt. of India to implement its policy to promote and encourage the use of renewable sources of energy.

Voltech Tejas Receives BEST Business Partner Award from BHEL

Voltech Tejas Valves Pvt. Ltd. Received the prestigious “Best Business Partner Awards: 2011-12” from M/s Bharath Heavy Electrical Limited, Chennai. This award is considered to be recognition for the quality of work done by the valves team of Voltech in terms of best prices, best product and punctuality in delivery. Voltech has always been able to establish its brand in the market as a reliable business partner who delivers the best quality product at the most competitive price with a highly prompt delivery schedule, thus assuring the best customer satisfaction.

Voltech Group Chairman and Managing Director Mr. M Umapathi received the Award from Mr. M Kannappan Executive Director – Pipping Center – BHEL Chennnai at function organized by BHEL at Hotel GRT Grand on 26th April 2011. Latter in his message to the group he congratulated the employees for this achievement and expressed his full confidence on the team to achieve bigger milestones in the days to come.

M.D’s Message

Much water has flowed under the bridge since then, and today we stand tall and proud, having crossed the business turnover mark of Rs.100 crores, which has been due to the foresight of our founders and the dedication of the employees at all levels.

I have no doubt that our product diversification plans and the establishment of our presence in various countries during the last few years, have definitely helped us in reaching various milestones in our business ventures; and I am confident that if we maintain this tempo, our group business will grow exponentially.

To achieve faster growth, we need finances; and to raise these finances, our Group Companies have to go migrate from Private to Public. As the first step towards this, the name of Voltech Transformers Private Limited has been changed to Voltech Manufacturing Company Limited with effect from 21st September 2011, and in due course our other product manufacturing companies will be merged with this new Public Company. We can expect interesting developments in the next few months.

We have extended our presence to Srilanka by registering Voltech Lanka (Private) Limited as a private company at Colombo in September 2011.

It is heartening to note that our group companies continue to receive good orders, big and small.

I would like to sign off by wishing everyone of you and your families a Very Happy and Enjoyable Diwali which will be celebrated this month immediately after our group’s 16th Anniversary celebrations.

M. Umapathi
Managing Director – Voltech Group

Vistorial

At the outset, we sincerely apologize for the suspension of the publication of Voltech Vista in the last few months. …

This has been due to circumstances beyond our control. In any case, this suspension has proved to be a blessing in disguise, in the sense that the significance of the circulation of Vista among our Group employees, as the best mode of internal communication, has been brought to the fore. Team Vista also looks forward for a new beginning, the Vista can be viewed in this link ( www.voltechgroup.com/vista ).

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Imagine the world without any communication. Sounds strange Experts agree that good communication is one of the keys of being a successful organization. Employee Surveys consistently show us that organizations without effective Workplace Communication practices suffer from poor employee morale.

If managers are able to communicate their ideas clearly, so that the employees definitely understand what is expected of them, they will perform their jobs efficiently. In contrast, lack of communication between a manager and his subordinates will result in the latter getting frustrated and confused, as they will be all the time guessing what their faults are.

Communication, which was once considered a soft skill, is now seen to have hard business impacts.

Indian Managers spend 20% of their time redoing or correcting the mistakes of others approximately one and half hours every day, which shows lack of proper communication among employees.

Developing a Communication Culture means encouraging people to feel comfortable about giving and receiving feedback about their performance in the interests of better business and their own personal development. FEEDBACK is an essential part of communication. Feedback can be both positive and negative.

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Contact us with your feed backs and suggestions at editorial@voltechgroup.com

We assure you that, with your support, Voltech Vista will continue to be published hereafter regularly as a quarterly newsletter of the Voltech Group.

We take this opportunity to wish all our readers and their families A VERY HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PROPEROUS NEW YEAR's, with plenty of reading of the quarterly issues of Vista.

Editorial Team

Successful ventures into different activities of Production and Service are not the end of the road for us; rather, they are the beginning. For us to propel, MARKETING acts as the main oar. Having extended our areas of operation to many countries in Asia and Africa, our MD is having his own market plans for countries in Europe, and visited ITLAY, UK and some of the neighborhood countries recently. After the recession of 2008 worldwide, many countries have liberalized their trade practices and in order grab the opportunities from all over the world, our MD is almost on tour to many new countries, thus proving the phrase of our company profile "literally trespassing all the geographical barriers�".

VHRSPL receives ISO Certification

Voltech HR Services Pvt. Ltd. has acquired its ISO 9001:2008 Certification for Quality Management Systems Implementation on September 19, 2011 successfully.

Our MD praised Mr. Dinesh K Babu and his team for their meritorious work and assured them of full support from the management in the days to come.

A Gathering of Academician and Professionals

Started from scratch in the month of June, brick by brick preparations for organizing the event were made, aiming to have the dream come true on August 20th at Le Royal Meridian. A team consisting of six people, to name with their responsibility, Mr. G. Selvaraj- HoD Conference Promotion, Ms. Divya.G - Conference coordinator, Ms. Kirthika George- Invitees coordinator, Ms. Shakira Banu- Invitees coordinator, Mr. Vasanth Sivakumar- Regional Coordinator, headed by the brain behind the theme , Mr. Dinesh K Babu - Conference Convener, was committed to put its heart and soul in the venture.

The team started inviting HR delegates from corporate sector as well as academicians from educational institutions, a month in advance. In this effort , more than 500 colleges were informed about the objective of this program as well as 500 plus HRs were invited as speakers, moderators, honorary delegates and partners for the event. It was an immense task to make each and every invitee feel as being provoked to be present at the real place of knowledge sharing. The sessions were made interesting by reputed speakers and moderators, and special mention has to be made of Mr. G.D.Sharma, Principal , Beeline Advisory, Mr. Hari.G, GM-Personnel HR, TVS Srichakra, Mr. N.Ilango, Chairman & MD, Ace Panacea Soft Skills Ltd. and Mr. M. Amaladoss, Head HR-Allison Transmission India Pvt Ltd. Each subject was found to be enlighting, fulfilling the exact objective of the conclave.

In conclusion, we must say that the event made its mark on the stand, delivering its intent in a professional way to the delight of the entire gathering, especially senior professionals from HR fraternity. This program is to be repeated henceforth every year, may be on a grander scale, with hearty support from the participants of 2011.

With the same enthusiasm, the team is ready to put in greater efforts for organising HR Caucus’12 on 5th of October 2012.

Major Orders:

VMCL (VTPL) bags major orders worth 31.82 Million

Voltech Manufacturing Company Limited have bagged the following major orders:

• From Fujita for 2500KVA/11KV/433V transformers with On Load Tap Changer consisting of 2 numbers. For 3.3 million.
• From Innovative Power for 500KVA/11KV/433V distribution transformers consisting of 7 numbers.upto 1.8 million.
• From L&T for 200 numbers of 100KVA/11KV/433V distribution transformers worth of 20 million.
• 21 numbers of 500KVA/11KV/433V distribution transformers for Henry & Farad nearly 6.72 million.

VEPL (TESTING & COMMISSIONING DIVISION)

VEPL (T&C Division) bagged an order from M/s. Areva T&D Ltd, Ragunathpur, for Testing and Commissioning of Switchyard DVC. The order is worth 3.05 million and comes from the Northern Region.

From Southern Region, an order of 29 million was received from M/s. NPCIL, Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, for Pre-commissioning and Commissioning of process system Pump Motors, Motorized valves, Electrical Operated doors, local control panels and cables for unit-2.

VMCL (VTPL) bags major orders

The VOMSPL division of VEPL has received a major work order from NPCIL Kudankulam.

The order is for the Operation and Maintenance of Commissioned and Charged Electrical Equipment in KKNPP Unit No.2 and is valued at 3.08 million. The contract period is for 6 months.

VIEPL bags major Orders worth 205 million

VIEPL Team was delighted to share an order worth of 180 Million from ThyssenKrupp Pune, for 115 THP CFBC Boiler. This is an ELECTRICAL AND INSTRUMENTATION EPC contract for Ultra-tech power project in Andhra Pradesh.

VIEPL has also received an order for 25 Million from M/s AREVA for ebop Erection Services for 2X300MW, GMR-Warora project in Chandrapur. The execution for this project has started.

VIEPL bags major Orders worth 205 million

Voltech Tejas bagged 3 major orders:

• M/s. Cenlub Industries Ltd, worth nearly 1.4 million;
• M/s. BHEL, worth nearly 8 million;
• M/s. Crystal Industrial Syndicate Pvt Ltd worth nearly 1.43 million.

VOLTECH at ELECRAMA 2012, Bombay Exhibition Centre

Voltech Group will be Exhibiting its premium Products in ELECRAMA 2012, the world's largest electrical T&D exhibition held biennially in Mumbai, India since 1990. From its humble beginnings in 1990 which saw 283 exhibitors and 30,000 visitors, it has grown to be the world's largest one-stop-shop for electrical and industrial electronics. In its ninth edition; ELECRAMA-2010 hosted 1,243 exhibitors from 23 countries including India and attracted 1,05,209 footfalls into the exhibition including visitors from 120 countries, at Hall No. H6 stall G8Q98.