Industrial production: HMC collaborates with foreign companies

To manufacture power boilers and wind turbines.

ISLAMABAD: In line with the government’s restructuring plan, Heavy Mechanical Complex (HMC) has entered into arrangements with several leading international companies specialising in process technologies for power boilers and production equipment.

HMC said the plan had been submitted to the Planning Commission in May 2010.

The plan enables the state-run organisation to manufacture much-needed power boilers and wind turbines for power generators, oil and gas processing plants, hydropower plants, thermal power plants and heavy forgings for Nuclear Steam Supply Systems (NSSS) used in nuclear power plants.

The plan also includes manufacturing of oil and gas refining and processing plants, coal gasification plants for domestic use, gas and power generating high pressure boilers for co-generation in sugar industry, biomass and gas dehydration plant, gas sweetening plants, sulphur recovery plants, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)/natural gas liquids (NGL) recovery plant, crude stabilising plant, oil and gas separators, cementing equipment, LPG storage tanks, mud solution tanks, off-site facilities and utilities.

HMC conforms to Under the new plan, a turbines and power plants equipment manufacturing facility will be set up at HMC at an estimated cost of Rs21.543 billion with foreign exchange component of $156.44 million.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 4^th, 2013.

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