Delta Electronics to invest Rs 1,400cr in India, hire 5,400

Taiwan-based Delta Electronics will invest USD 225 million (about Rs 1,460 crore) in setting up a power supply manufacturing plant and product development center in India next year. "We are in the process of acquiring land in Tamil Nadu for setting up power supply manufacturing unit. We expect land title to be transferred to us by November.

First set of investment of USD 150 million of the total commitment will be made next year," Delta India Electronics Managing Director Dalip Sharma said at Renewable Energy India Expo. The investment is part of the USD 500 million investment commitment made by the company's CEO Ping Cheng at Digital India event held in July. Sharma said that Delta will hire 5,000 people for working at this plant over period of next five-seven years.

"We expect to approach Department of Electronics and IT for approval under MSIPS by end of this year," Sharma said. The Modified Special Incentive Package Scheme (MSIPS) provides subsidy for investments in capital expenditure, which is 20 percent for investments in special economic zones (SEZs) and 25 percent in non-SEZs. It also provides for reimbursement of countervailing duty or excise for capital equipment for the non-SEZ units.

The company already has a manufacturing unit at Rudrapur in Uttarakhand. The company is in process of setting up a research and development centre in Bangalore that will work on software data analytics solution and high power technologies. "We are at final stage of acquiring land for the R&D center.

Delta will invest another USD 75 million on this centre and would be hiring 400 engineers for it. Hiring will start from mid of next year," Sharma said. The company deals in energy solutions, digital surveillance, solar inverters, industrial automation, projectors and commercial displays.

Sharma said that Delta India Electronics registered revenues of Rs 1,000 crore in 2014 and expects to clock growth of about 35 percent by end of this calendar year. "We are cash flow positive and registering profit. This year we expect our revenue to be around Rs 1,350 crore.

"We have been following stable business model. Now we see time is ripe is to scale up our business with fresh investments," Sharma said. Cheng committed that investment in India will be made over period of next 10 years and will create 20,000 new jobs in the country.