Siemens Ltd. Bags Multiple Orders in the Last Two Months

​Siemens Ltd. saw a flurry of new orders and activities in the last two months:

• Won an order of about $15.3 million to supply a 400 kV Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) substation to West Bengal State Electricity Transmission Company Limited (WBSETCL). The scope of the order includes engineering, supply, installation, and commissioning of the GIS substation. The 400 kV GIS solution is being manufactured at Siemens' manufacturing plant at Aurangabad, Maharashtra. As the State Transmission Utility provider, Transmission Licensee, and State Load Dispatch Center, WBSETCL is responsible for transmitting electricity from generating sources to load centers through a transmission network spread across West Bengal.

• Won an order approximately worth $56.8 million from Indian Railways' Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. The scope of work for the project involves supply of 1890 traction motors for 4500 HP diesel electric locomotives. The traction motors will be produced at Siemens' factory in Kalwa, Maharashtra.

• Bagged an order approximately worth $16.8 million from Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited, a State Power Transmission Utility owned by the Government of Rajasthan and headquartered in Jaipur. The scope of work for the project involves engineering, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of 400 kv /220kV Air Insulated substations.

• Siemens Ltd. together with Siemens Malaysia, has won an order approximately worth $23.3 million from Malaysia-based PSI International, one of the world's largest petrochemical companies and a subsidiary of Petronas. The scope of work for the project involves supply of 420kV Gas Insulated Switchgear for PSI International's new petrochemical greenfield project RAPID – Refinery & Petrochemical Integrated Development.