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Goldstone Tele enters power sector

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD NOV. 29. Goldstone Teleservices (GTSL) has now entered the power sector with its state-of-the-art `Polymer Insulators' of 11 kV and 33 kV, which it has developed with its own R&D and manufactured at its facility at Cherlapally Industrial Estate here. The new range of composite insulators based on heat shrinkable shedded components made from polymer (silicon-epdm) compound has been in use in a number of countries.

L. P. Sashi Kumar, Managing Director, and K. S. V. Chalapathi Rao, Chief Operating Officer, said at an informal briefing here that GTSL received and executed trial orders for power utilities such as Eastern Power Distribution Company of Andhra Pradesh, Central Power Distribution Company of Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh Electricity Board, Southern Power Distribution Company, Tata Power (Delhi), and Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation. Railways also release a LoI to buy such insulators. The company has created a capacity of 25,000 such insulators annually and invested up to Rs. 5 crores in the last 18 months. Under the second phase, it proposes to procure polymer insulators from a U.S. company for 66 kV to 400 kV and supply. Depending upon orders procured it may plan to make these also here, he said.

They put the all India market for 11 kV and 33 kV insulators at Rs. 20 crores annually, and the 66 kV to 400 kV market at Rs. 560 crores.

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