Apollo Tyre to invest Rs. 1,800 cr for Greenfield plant in A.P

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Leading tyre manufacturer Apollo Tyres Limited announced that it plans to invest Rs. 1800 crore for setting up a Greenfield plant at Andhra Pradesh. The announcement was made during the foundation-stone-laying ceremony of Apollo Tyres’ global scale mfg facility on Tuesday, 9 January.

Apollo Tyres has bought 200 acres land from the Andhra Pradesh govt for this development. The construction will commence within the next 6 months, and the tyres are likely to start rolling out from this facility in the following 2 years.

Presently, Apollo Tyre has four production plants, of these two are in Kerala and one in Gujarat and another one in Tamil Nadu. This novel planned facility of Apollo Tyres Limited is located in Chinnapanduru village, Chittoor district, in Andhra Pradesh.

The stock of Apollo Tyre Limited open on Tuesday’s trade at Rs. 283 and touched day's high of Rs. 288.7, up 1.7% from the previous close of Rs. 283.80. The stock closed at Rs. 284.95, up by Rs. 1.25 or 0.44 per cent at NSE.

L&T commissions 360 MW Bheramara Cycle Power Plant in Bangladesh

Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) said that it has successfully commissioned and handed over the 360 MW state-of-the-art Bheramara Combined Cycle Power Plant Project to North West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL), the wholly  owned subsidiary of Bangladesh Power Development Board, on Jan 5, 2018.

Larsen & Toubro Limited is India's largest engineering & Construction Company generating 48 percent revenue from infrastructure in FY17.  The company generated 34 percent revenue from international markets in the fiscal 2017.  The company’s order book was Rs. 2.57 lakh crore as of the second quarter FY2018.

Shares of Larsen & Toubro Limited is currently trading at Rs. 1,332.40, down by Rs. 5.85 or 0.44% on the NSE, at 15:00 hours of trade.

HCC joint venture wins Rs. 484-cr order for Pune metro, Shares rise

Hindustan Construction Co. Limited (HCC) on Monday announced that its joint venture comopany AL Faraa has bagged a contract worth Rs. 484 crore from Maharashtra Metro Rail Corpn for the Pune metro project.

The contract comprises construction of 8 elevated stations on line II of the Pune metro rail project. The work constitutes general & structural civil works of the station buildings & architectural and site development. The 14.66 k.m long elevated Line-II of Pune Metro has 16 stations out of which 8 stations will be built by HCC. The project is to be completed in 3 years.

At 14:22 hours, shares of Hindustan Construction were trading at Rs. 43.35 per share, up Rs 1.40 or 3.34 % on the NSE.