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CEO: D R Bansal Year of Start-up: 1994 Address: P O Box 64, Udyog Vihar, Rewa- 486001 Madhya Pradesh Tel: 07662-54318 Fax: 07662-54321 Web site: www.birlaericsson.com |
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Birla Ericsson Optical Ltd (BE), an ISO-9002 company under the MP Birla Group
of Industries, entered into the field of optical communication, by way of
manufacturing fiber optic cables, in technical and financial collaboration with
Ericsson Cables AB of Sweden.
During FY 2000-01, BE grew by 26 percent netting a turnover of Rs 198.00
crore as compared to Rs 157.51 crore in 1999-00. The company has also managed to
come out of a negative growth in the net profit, which stood at Rs 12.82 crore.
The up trend in OFC prices seems to have helped the company to shore up its
sagging fortunes.
BE was amongst the earliest entrants into the OFC business in the early
1990s. It diversified into the manufacture of JFTC and switchboard cables for
switching equipment at a later stage.
BE has recently augmented its installed capacity for OFC at its Rewa plant to
36,414 km from 20,000 km. The production capacity for JFTC has also been
increased to 3.3-million ckm from 2.8-million ckm. BE also has the capability to
produce special cables for use in medical equipment, computers and LANs, Cable
TV Network or any other type of special fiber optic cables.
With the DoT’s requirement for both JFTC and OFC reaching an all time high,
Birla Ericsson plans to make fresh investments into capacity expansion and
backward integration projects for the current fiscal.