BHEL Invites Global OEMs to Set Up Solar Manufacturing Units in India

Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (BHEL) has issued an Expression of Interest (EoI) inviting global companies to partner and leverage its facilities and capabilities for setting up a manufacturing base in the country.

The scope of work includes manufacturing and technology partnerships with global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) who are seeking an opportunity to establish or expand their supply chains or manufacturing base in India. These include the manufacture of various goods, including heavy electrical equipment, process project equipment, and solar value chain.

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had a major impact on all the economic activities, including manufacturing. “Supply chain disruptions in many sectors have been witnessed, the results of which will become more pronounced in the future,” said BHEL in the EoI. The government enterprise further added that the result of these disruptions would become more pronounced in the future.

“For a world that must quickly come to terms with the new normal, it is imperative that manufacturing activities are quickly resumed and ramped up, which would help the restoration of normalcy and avoiding shortages that may adversely affect the international economic recovery. A key lesson for businesses, emerging from the Covid-19 aftermath, is that the decentralizing of manufacturing will have to be adopted as a major strategy to mitigate disruption risks associated with concentrated and localized operations,” the document added.