Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) has reportedly merged the Nashik-based Datar Switchgear with itself for an undisclosed amount. L&T has also absorbed 160 workers of Datar Switchgears in its Ahmednagar facility. The remaining legal formalities in this regard are expected to be completed within the next one or two months. The distressed Datar Switchgear, spread over four acres in Ambad in Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) facility, was engaged in the manufacture of electrical and electronic products.
The company was a pioneer in the production of circuit breakers. The move is aimed at extending its presence in the low voltage electrical business. The Board of Industrial & Financial Restructuring (BIFR) has also reportedly given its clearance for the merger of Datar Switchgears with L&T. L&T has already shifted all the technology and machinery of Nashik-based Datar Switchgears to its Ahmednagar facility in Maharashtra.
Datar Switchgears, established in 1984 in Nashik, had indigenously developed the technology for the manufacture of earth leakage circuit breakers (ELCB) and minutes circuit breakers (MCB). Datar Switchgears was also involved in manufacturing switchgears, ultrasonic welding machines and of capacitor panels, for rental and outright sales. But the company had financially come into distress with the collapse of company’s cash flow and affecting payments of interest and principle to financial institutions, banks and other financiers, and also a loss of substantial business opportunities.
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