MUMBAI: Engineering and construction major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Monday said it has bagged a 421 million dollar (Rs 1,695 crore) export order from Kuwait National Petroleum Company to manufacture and supply reactors for its clean fuel project.
L&T's heavy engineering division was awarded an order to manufacture and supply 22 hydro cracker and atmospheric residue desulphurisation (ARDS) reactors for the 'Clean Fuel Project 2020' of Kuwait National Petroleum Company.
These reactors are required to be delivered to the refinery in Kuwait by the third quarter of financial year 2010-11, L&T informed the Bombay Stock Exchange.
L&T would manufacture these critical reactors in its facilities at Hazira Works, which is one of the biggest integrated manufacturing complexes situated on a water front with easy access to the sea.
These reactors would be manufactured from advanced technology steels containing chromium, molybdenum and vanadium, with thickness of around 300 mm and weights up to 1,450 MT.
The reactors for the clean fuel project 2020 have to conform to Chevron process design and specifications.
Shares of L&T were trading at Rs 3,789, down 3.59 per cent on the BSE in morning trade.
