Schneider Electric Infrastructure Ltd (SEIL) has announced plans of expanding its transformer manufacturing capacity.
In a regulatory filing, SEIL said that the company’s board of directors in a meeting on February 11, 2025, approved the plan to enhance the existing manufacturing capacity of medium power transformers.
SEIL would be investing Rs.13.6 crore, to be financed through internal accruals and/or borrowings, to expand the manufacturing capacity of medium power transformers by 1,500 MVA per year.
The objective of the capacity expansion plan is “to meet market demand and growth ambition” of the company’s Medium Power Transformer business, the filing said.
Schneider Electric Infrastructure manufactures transformers at its plant located at Vadodara in Gujarat. According to the plan, the existing capacity of 5,500 MVA would be enhanced to 7,000 MVA, by end of FY26 (i.e. March 31, 2026).
The Vadodara’s plant current capacity utilization is around 96 per cent, the filing said.
Order inflows up 13.8 per cent
Meanwhile, according to a Schneider Electric Infrastructure investor presentation, the company saw its order inflow in the first nine months (9M: April to December) of FY25 grow 13.8 per cent, year on year.
Order inflows stood at Rs.1,546 crore in 9MFY25 as against Rs.1,359 crore in the same period of FY24. In Q3 (October to December) of FY25, year-on-year order inflow growth was milder at 5.3 per cent.
Key order wins in Q3 included:
- India’s first SF6-free switchgear order (11kV RM AirSeT) placed by a distribution utility
- Inverter duty transformer for a 150-MW solar project
- Control relay panel along with substation automation system placed by a transmission utility in east India
- E-house with 33kV GIS, 11kV SSIS (solid state insulated switchgear) and RTU (remote terminal unit) panel & 33kV GIS for conventional substation, placed by a discom in east India
- Supply, installation, testing & commissioning of 11kV AIS panels at multiple locations for a data centre project
Featured photograph shows SEIL’s transformer manufacturing facility at Vadodara in Gujarat
