YEAR EVENTS
1980 - The Company by name Thermo-Dynamics Pvt., Ltd was originally
incorporated on 30th June, 1980. Later Wanson (India)
Ltd. along
with Thermax India (Pvt) Ltd. was amalgamated with the
Company on
1st July. Subsequently the name was changed to Thermax
Pvt. Ltd.
Tulsi Fine Chemical Industries Pvt. Ltd. and Kailas
Castings Pvt.
Ltd. were merged with the Company effective 1st July,
1982. The
Company became a deemed public company with effect
from 1st July,
1989.
1991 - T. K. Steel Industries Ltd. was merged with the Company.
1994 - The Company became a full fledged public limited company.
The
Company was promoted by Late A. S. Bathena and was taken
over by
R. D. Aga. The products manufactured by the Company are
heat
recovery and energy conservation products, Chilling and
air
conditioning products, co-generation and captive power
generation
products, water treatment, air pollution control
equipments,
chemicals etc.
- The Company has following collaboration: (i) Struthers
Scientific
& International Corporation USA for heat recovery and energy
conservation products, (ii) Ansaldo, Italy for steam turbines
and
with NOVO Pignone, Italy for gas turbines, (iii) Eco-Tec Inc.
of
Canada for distributorship of recovery system, (iv) ACW
Services
Ltd., U.K. for waste management equipments, (v) A.W.
Chesterton
Co., USA for maintenance products.
- 171,37,510 No. of Equity shares issued, subscribed and
paid-up.
Of which 21,35,640 No. of equity shares allotted other than
cash
as per various schemes of amalgamation and 34,27,500 shares
issued as bonus in prop. 1:4.
1995 - The Company has fully geared to bring the desired focus on
two
distinct business areas viz. standard products and customised
projects. The product development process introduced a year
and
half ago was institutionalised.
- The process heat division came out with a new boiler design -
an
oil fired smoke boiler - shell Max and Combiac, a boiler
specially designed to burn agro fuels like rice and groundnut
husk, saw dust, coffee waste etc.
- A MOU was signed with Bharat Shell for thermic fluid, Therma,
for
heat transfer system. The process heat projects division
received an order from PT South Pacific Viscose, an
Indonesian
Company for supply of 3 boilers of 22.5 tonnes per hour of
steam.
- The absorption cooling division launched two new products
viz.
the direct fired and hot water fired absorption cooling
machines.
The Cogen division built a 6 MW cogen facility for a paper
plant
in Northern India.
- The Cogen division also signed a distributorship agreement
with
Kawasaki Heavy Industries for packaging Kawasaki's gas
turbines
up to 6 MW.
- The electronic division entered into capacitor business while
the
post harvest equipment division continued to be a leader in
the
grain storage silo market and in material handling equipment
manufactured in collaboration with Cimbria Unigrain of
Denmark.
- The Company undertook to modernise and expand its capacities
at
Chichwad and its Chemical division at Khopoli. Two DG sets
of
500 KVA each, a compressor, effluent treatment plant etc were
to
be installed.
- In 1995, the Company offered 61,12,500 No. of equity shares at
a
premium of Rs 180 per share through prospectus. Of which
23,800
shares were offered to promoters, 2,76,200 shares were offered
to
employees and the balance 58,12,500 shares were offered to
public. (All were taken up).
1996 - The Company merged two of its division, one in the energy
area
and the other in heat recovery area to pool the expertise with
a
view to addressing the heat recovery business. A new
division
viz. Energy System Division emerged out of this merger.
- The process heat division introduced packaged bagasse fired
boilers for paper mills in the range of 4 to 16 tonnes. The
heat division launched hot water generation for provision of
hot
water on taps in hotels, hospitals and dairies. The
absorption
cooling division introduced smaller capacity vapour
absorption
machines for hotels, hospitals, shopping malls and
residential
complexes.
- The Company launched fine circulation fluidised bed
combustion
boiler. The Environ-division executed 3 major export orders
received from Indonesia. The Chemicals division developed
and
commercialised various speciality co-polymers and resins for
biotech and pharma industries for domestic and international
markets.
- To enter synergistic fields, the Company entered into a joint
venture with WICOX Ltd. forming Thermax Babcock & Wilcox Ltd.
for
manufacture of large size fluidised bed cumbustion boilers
and
non-cyclone circulating fluidised bed technology for captive
power generation.
- The Company entered into joint venture with Fuji Electric
Company, Japan, for manufacture of smart digital transmitters,
a
field instrument needed in most industries.
- The joint venture viz., Thermax Fugi Electric Ltd. would also
manufacture advanced boiler Control System and microprocessor
based process control packages.
- Another joint venture viz., Thermax Culligan Water Technology
Ltd., was set up with Culligan International Company USA for
bringing to market the latest technologies in drinking,
commercial and industrial water treatment like ozonisation
ultraviolet purification for treating bacteria and virus and
reverse osmosis for desalination.
- Thermax Energy Performance Services Ltd. is a joint venture
formed between the Company and Energy Performance Services
Inc.,
USA for provision of energy saving projects in industrial
sector.
The joint project was set up to manufacture energy saving
measures in the steel, aluminium, paper & pulp, textile &
hotel
sectors.
- On February 16, 1996, Chairman and Managing Director, Rohinton
D. Aga,
passed away in Mumbai of a heart attack.
- The Company received the ISO 9002 certification from the
Lloyd's Register
Quality Assurance (LRQA).
- The Process Heat Division introduced the Combipac, a boiler
specially designed
to burn agro fuels like rice and groundnut husk, sawdust,
coffee waste, mustard, etc.,
easily available in large parts of the country.
- A Memorandum of Understanding was signed with Bharat Shell and
the Process
Heat Division.
- Heat Recovery Division for the first time in India,
commissioned an energy-efficient
internal vaporisation unit (Dowtherm Vaporiser) for the
high-temperature heat
requirements of Reliance Industries' plant at Hazira.
- The Cogen Division is all set to build a 6 MW cogen facility
for a paper plant in
Northern India, for which a letter of intent has been
obtained.
- The Cogen Division has also signed a Distributorship Agreement
with Kawasaki
Heavy Industries for packaging Kawasaki's gas turbines upto 6
MW.
- The Environment Division has successfully commissiosned bag
house systems in
the steel sector. The Division has launched a new product --
high efficiency cyclone
for trapping the flue-gas particulate matter especially for
boilers using agro waste.
- The Waste Management Division has also developed a standard
incinerator for
incinerating infectious wastes in hospitals and hopes to
serve this market in a sustained
manner in the coming years.
- The Water Treatment Division is all set to enter the domestic
and commercial sectors
to provide high quality water purification devices. A
Memorandum of Understanding
has already been signed with a leading international
company, which would shortly get
converted into a joint venture agreement.
- The Electronics Division has now entered the capacitors
business for the first time
and is confident of almost trebling its revenues in the
coming year.
- The Canara Bank's 'Best Exporter' shield in the Western
region (except Bombay)
for 1995-96.
- An Export Award from Chemexil, the Indian Commerce
Ministry's export council for basic
chemicals, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.
- The `Innovation in Management' award at a global management
event 2020 Marketing
Vision--hosted by Standard Chartered Bank and the Indian
Express Group.
- The Giant's International Award to the late Chairman R.D.
Aga, for his outstanding
contribution in the fields of business and industry.
1997 - The company received the AD-Merkblatt certification for the
entire
manufacturing unit at Chinchwad.
- An electronic network called Thermnet linking all
establishments of
the company in the country was introduced during the
year, making
Thermax virtually a single workplace
- The company entered into a joint venture with Fuji
Electric Company of
Japan - a Fortune 500 Company and leaders in the
instrumentation and
electrical engineering field.
- The company signed a joint venture agreement with
Culligan
International Company of USA, a world leader in the
treatment,
conditioning and purification of water.
- The Absorption Cooling division has introduced smaller
capacity vapour absorption
machines (VAMs) for hotels, hospitals, shopping malls
and residential
complexes.
- The Chemical Division entered the business of fuel
treatment for
refineries.
- During the year, the following companies became
subsidiaries of the
company: Thermax Fuji Electric Limited, Thermax
Electronics Limited,
Thermax International Limited, Thermax (UK) Limited
which has changed
its name to Thermax Europe Limited with effect from
April 1, 1997.
- Mr. G.K. Gureja, Director, retired with effect from
August 31, 1996.
Mr. P.K. Sen resigned as Director with effect from
October 30, 1996.
1998 - During the year under review, your company introduced five new
products
in the standard packaged boiler range. The company also
launched a wide
range of products incorporating Kawasaki modular
technology in our Vapour
Absorption Division.
- The products launched by TCWTL like Purichill, the
household softener
Eversoft and Point-of-Entry systems have gained market
acceptance.
- During the year under review, Thermax Energy Performance
Services signed
its first Master Energyrvice Agreement (MESA) with a
leading company in Gujarat.
- The company developed and introduced a technology called
Submerged Aerated
Fixed Film (SAFF).
- The Waste Management division has entered into a technical
transfer agreement
with Ozone Processes Inc., USA for state-of-the-art
Electro-Precipitation
technology.
- During the year, a licence agreement was signed with
Environmental
Elements Corporation (EEC), USA, for electrostatic
precipitators and
large bag houses used by a range of industries.
- The Company, during the year, also set up a Learning
Resource Centre.
- During the year, Thermax (Rus) Limited and Winman Gas
Limited became
subsidiaries of the Company.
- Mr. R.A. Shroff resigned as Director with effect from
27th October
1997. Mr. B. F. Gagrat resigned as Director with effect
from 11th
March 1998.
- Issued, Subscribed & Paid up Capital includes 21,35,640
Equity
Shares of Rs. 10 each allotted as fully paid up for
consideration other
than cash as per various schemes of amalgamation and
34,27,500 shares
of Rs. 10 each issued by way of bonus shares on
capitalisation of
General Reserve.
1999 - The Company has technologies in areas of water and wastewater
management to effectively meet the demand for
infrastructure water.
- During the year under review, the Company developed a
more advanced
process called PDP II.
- The Cogen/ power business was badly affected by the
delay in financial
closures during the year under review.
- The cogen plants supplied by the Company to Arvind
Mills at its two
sites in Gujarat were commissioned during the year
under review and are
meeting the steam and power requirements of the
customer.
- The Air Pollution division has signed a technology
co-operation agreement with
Schalke of Germany to enable steel industries control
dust and obnoxious gas
emissions from coke oven batteries, in line with a
recent Govt. of India gazette
notification.
- During the year, Thermax Co-gen Limited became a
subsidiary of the
Company.
- With effect from 1st July 1999, Mr. A.M. Nalawade,
Managing Director of the
Company has been redesignated as Managing Director.
- The tenure of appointment of Mr. G. Trivedi,
Whole-time Director of
the Company, expired on 30th June 1999.
- The tenure of appointment of Mr. M.J. Shaikhali, Mr.
R.V Ramani and
Dr. N.D. Joshi as Whole-time Directors expired on
30th June 1999.
- Mr D. L. Chavan resigned as Director with effect
from 31st July 1998.
2000 - The Company has acquired ME Engineering, a UK-based company
belonging to the Beel Industrial Boilers Plc group.
- The Company has signed an exclusive distribution
agreement for
South Asian markets with US company Purafil Inc to
market their
dry gas scrubbers popularly known as chemical filters.
- Thermax Ltd has signed a memorandum of understanding
with the
Society of Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering
and Research
for commercialisation of the latter's microwave
disinfection
system for treating pathological bio-medical waste
generated by
hospitals and research institutes.
- The Company appointed Mr. P.M. Kulkarni as the Managing
Director
effective from 21st July.
- Thermax has entered into a share-swap arrangement with
Global Tele-systems
for its software subsidiary, Thermax Systems and
Software.
- The Industrial Fan Division of Thermax Ltd. has been
taken over by the
Mumbai-based Universal Fans India Pvt. Ltd. (UFL).
- Pune-based Thermax Ltd. has received ISO 14001
certification for its
environmental management system in its manufacturing
plant at Chinchwad.
2001 - Thermax has setting up of a wholly owned subsidiary company,
Thermax Inc, in the US
with an initial equity base of 0,000 to enable it to
push exports.
- Thermax has set up its second overseas wholly-owned
subsidiary, in Detroit, USA.
- Thermax Ltd is acquiring a 50 per cent stake in Energy
Performance Service (Thailand),
a subsidiary of Energy Performance Service of Canada.
- Thermax and Cummins Diesel Sales and Services, the wholly
owned subsidiary
of the Cummins India, has entered into a strategic
alliance to provide attractive energy
solutions to various industry segments.
- Thermax, which is restructuring its business, has sold
its electronics and surface coating businesses. The two
businesses were carried out through two subsidiaries, Thermax
Electronics and Thermax Surface Coatings,
respectively.
-Thermax Ltd. the company has acquired the 50% equity stake
of Culligan Water Technologies Ltd (erstwhile Thermax
Culligan Water Technologies Ltd). Consequently Thermax
Water Technologies has become a 100% subsidiary of the company.
2002
- Sunil Lalai appointed as Company Secretary of Thermax.
-Mr.Prakash Kulkarni acquires additional shares amounting to 2250
shares in Thermax Ltd.
-Mrs. Meher P Pudumjee is appointed as non-executive vice-chairperson
of Thermax Ltd.
2003
-Mr.Jairam Varadraj has been appointed as Additional Director on the
Board of Thermax.
-Shri Ashok Gehlot, Hon Chief Minister of Rajasthan inaugurated
Thermax Captive Power
plant in Beawar .
-Anu Aga proposes her daughters name as chairperson's post of Thermax
Ltd.
-Thermax Ltd has informed that the company has incorporated and
invested US $ 200,000 in a wholly owned overseas (WOS) subsidiary set
up in Brazil.
2004
-Thermax receives Letter of Intent for Rs. 744.70 mn Power Plant
-Thermax Ltd has informed that the Company has set up a wholly owned
subsidiary in Hong Kong, in the name and style Thermax Hong Kong Ltd.
This subsidiary would address the business opportunities identified in
the Asia Pacific Region and more particularly in China for Absorption
Chillers.
-Thermax bags an order for Captive Power Plant
-Thermax's Cogen Division receives letter of intent worth Rs 650
million
-Thermax Ltd has acquired 40 per cent stake of Babcock & Wilcox
International Investments Co Inc (BWII) held in their joint venture
for an undisclosed sum.
2005
-Thermax inks agreement with HWB
2006
-Thermax Ltd has informed that the Company is setting up a plant in
the People's Republic of China for manufacturing Absorption Chillers
with an investment of US$ 8.0 million.
2007
-Thermax signs technology agreement with German Air Pollution Control
leader
2008
- Thermax Ltd has informed that the Board of Directors of the Company
at its meeting held on January 29, 2008, inter alia, has approved the
appointment of Dr. R A Mashelkar, Independent Director as an
Additional Director of the Company with immediate effect.
-Thermax signs 15-year pact with US firm
-Thermax signs license pact with Babcock & Wilcox
-Thermax receives an order of Rs 415 crore
2009
- Thermax Ltd has received an order of Rs 255 crore from a leading
business conglomerate for supply of 4 x 250 TPH coal cum washery
rejects CFBC boilers (Circulating Fluidised Bed Combustion Boiler).
- Thermax on Sept 17 bagged an order for the supply of 270-MW power
plant on a turnkey basis to be set up by a Hyderabad-based
infrastructure company.
-Business Excellence award for Thermax
-Thermax wins order worth Rs. 1000 crore
-Thermax signs technology agreements for advanced wastewater
treatment
-Thermax-SPX joint venture agreement signed
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