KEC International
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| Public (: ) | |
| Industry | Transmission tower |
| Founded | 1945 (as Kamani Engineering Corp.) |
| Founder | Ramjibhai Kamani |
| Headquarters | Mumbai,, India |
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Key people
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Vimal Kejriwal, MD & CEO |
| Revenue | ₹85 billion (US$1.3 billion) |
| Profit | ₹42.27 billion (US$660 million) |
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Number of employees
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5,200 |
| Parent | RPG Group |
| Subsidiaries | SAE Towers |
| Website | Official Website |
KEC International Limited (: ) is India's second largest manufacturer of electric power transmission towers and one of the largest Power Transmission Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) companies in the world. It is headquartered in Mumbai, India and is part of the ₹160 billion (US$2.5 billion) RPG Group, engaged in laying of power transmission lines on EPC globally. It also provides telecom infrastructure services, tower testing, satellite and GPRS surveys, and hotline stringing services. It has operations in Algeria, Afghanistan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Tajikistan, and the United Arab Emirates.
Ramjibhai Kamani founded Kamani Engineering Corporation (KEC) in 1945 which became the first electric power transmission company in Asia and a pioneer in the field of electric power transmission and railway electrification. In 1950, the company received an order from the Indian government to supply transmission towers for the prestigious Bhakra Nangal Dam project and a steel tower fabrication plant was established in Bombay in partnership with R. Foures, France. This was augmented by a second unit in Jaipur, Rajasthan and by 1967, KEC was supplying three-fifths of India's demand for transmission towers.
By the 1970s KEC had carried out turnkey power transmission projects in Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Egypt, Nigeria, Algeria, Mauritius, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, The Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, the United States and Canada. With eighty per cent of its turnover of almost ₹800 million (US$12 million) being earned through exports, KEC soon became the largest manufacturer of transmission towers in India and the second largest in the world, next in rank to SAE of Italy.
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