Heat Exchanger Manufacturers in India: an overview
Several plate heat exchanger makers work out of the Pune region. Alfa Laval has been in India since 1937, opened its heat exchanger factory in 1983 and now lists manufacturing units in Pune and Satara. HRS Process Systems builds corrugated tube, plate and scraped surface heat exchangers at a five-acre plant in Koregaon Bhima. Tranter lists India among six countries where it has manufacturing and engineering activities, and its regional office is at Dhingrajwadi near Sanaswadi.
Large shell and tube exchangers for refineries, fertiliser and chemical plants come from heavy fabrication yards in western India. L&T's Hazira complex covers more than 750 acres, has its own jetties and has supplied over 335 screwplug closure exchangers. Godrej's Dahej plant and ISGEC's coastal plant at Dahej also have jetties. Anup Engineering's Ahmedabad works covers 45,000 square metres with six heavy and four light bays. Tema India, incorporated in 1984, runs three plants with 15,000 tonnes a year of capacity, and Patels Airtemp builds air-cooled and shell and tube units on 77,900 square metres at Rakanpur and Kadi.
The rest of the list serves power stations and vehicles. BHEL makes condensers and heat exchangers at Bhopal, a plant set up in 1956, and heat exchangers at its Hyderabad plant, set up in 1965. Mazda makes dump condensers and HP and LP feedwater heaters in Ahmedabad. For vehicles, Banco's Bhaili plant near Vadodara covers 50,000 square metres and turns out over 1.5 million cooling system parts. Subros, set up in 1985 with Denso and Suzuki, makes brazed condensers, heater cores and evaporators at a dedicated plant in Noida, and Pranav Vikas has capacity for over a million aluminium brazed heat exchangers a year at Faridabad.