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INDUSTRY OVERVIEW :
Although pottery and ceramic industry is of prehistoric origin in
India, the HT Insulator industry has a recent origin. The first unit
was set up in the fifties at Bangalore. Some units were set up in
the sixties but the main expansion of the industry took place in the
seventies. The HT Insulators are used in electrical transmission lines,
substations and electrical equipment. Different types of insulators
are used for each application. There has been up gradation of transmission
voltage and plans are afoot to install 765 KV AC transmission lines.
The industry would need to develop and produce HT Insulators of higher
ratings for transmission lines, substations and equipment. There are
14 units manufacturing electro porcelain high-tension insulators.
Two of these units are in small-scale sector. These have installed
capacity of 85,050 tonne per annum. One small scale and one organized
sector unit have stopped production of insulators. The capacities
of these two units are 5000 tonne per annum. The demand and average
production of the HT Insulators during the last nine years have been
around 31,000 tonne per annum. More than 60% of the installed capacity
is lying idle with the industry due to lack of domestic demand. With
the implementation of the approved projects, the unutilized capacity
would increase from 60,000 tonne to 1,00,000 tonne approximately.
Since the domestic demand is not likely to increase proportionately
at least for the next five years, the only possible way for improving
the efficiency of the industry is to enter the world export market.
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