Achievements & milestones,GIL

Achievements & Milestones

2001-2002

2004-2005

2005-2006

	The company embarked on the development of new specialty products like flexible graphite sheets and tubes.
	The company achieved an average capacity utilization of nearly 100 per cent in its electrodes division.
	The company had an export presence in over 50 countries.
	Bombay Municipal Corporation Project, GRP pipe for Sewerage Out Fall into the Arabian Sea, carrying sewerage water into the deep sea. This project is First of its kind in India and third in the entire world.

In August 2004 the company through its wholly owned foreign subsidiary acquired Graphite Electrode, Graphite specialties and Electrode coating operations in Nuremberg, Germany, of the Conradty Group from the Insolvency Administrator.

This acquisition enabled the company to add approximately 18000 MT of Graphite Electrode capacity and to move closer to its European customers to facilitate quicker delivery and improved services.

The expansion module of 20,000 MT of Graphite Electrodes with the state-of-the-art technology was fully commissioned in the fourth quarter of the financial year taking the production capacity of Durgapur Plant in West Bengal from 14000 MT to 34000 MT.