Austrian firm picks up 25 percent equity stake in GP Energy
January 30th, 2012 - 8:42 pm ICT by IANSKolkata, Jan 30 (IANS) Gussing Renewable Energy (GRE), an Austrian renewable energy solutions company, has picked up 25 percent equity stake in city-based GP Energy, a biomass gasification systems manufacturing company.
“With the merger in place GRE becomes a partner for GP Energy. They are bringing in a host of modern technologies and equipment that will help us increase the scope and size of our business,” GP Energy Managing Director J. Mukherjee told mediapersons here Monday.
“The merger will help the company to increase its turnover from Rs.50 crore to Rs.200 crore over the next three years,” Mukherjee said.
The company, which has its plants in Nepal, Thailand and Guyana apart from India, said it was in talks with various municipalities, hospitals and development agencies to sell its power generation equipment.
“We will sell our host of technologies driven power generation equipment and we have started dialogues with the rural development agencies, hospitals and various municipalities in the country,” said Mukherjee.
GRE Group Chairman Michael J. Dichand said: “We have a portfolio of products that we wanted to introduce in India and this partnership provides that opportunity.”
Some of the technologies that the Austrian firm is looking to share include technologically advanced equipment for biomass gassification, enriched bio-fertilisers (for growing rice), hydrogen cells (for transport industry) and batteries with advanced storage capacities.
GP Energy is also looking to introduce their atmospheric water generator (a device that collects water molecule from the atmosphere and purifies them into drinking water) in India.
“We are looking to import about 500 units of atmospheric water generator early next financial year. We discussing the possibilities (of introducing these units) with government authorities, defence and hospitals,” said Mukherjee.
The company may go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in the next three years.
It is also eyeing to achieve a turnover of Rs.75 crore at the end of the current fiscal.
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