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Tiruchirapalli (Tamil Nadu), April 5 (IANS) Power equipment maker Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd will complete expanding its boiler unit’s capacity to 20,000 MW by the end of this fiscal, a top company official said here Tuesday.

“The third phase of capacity expansion (from 15,000 MW to 20,000 MW) works are progressing as per schedule and will be completed by March 2012,” Executive Director A.V. Krishnan told reporters while sharing the division’s performance for 2010-11.

According to him, all preparatory and pre-execution works have been carried out in time to ramp up the capacity to 20,000 MW.

The boiler unit - located around 335 km from Chennai - closed the last fiscal with a turnover of Rs.12,275 crore and a before tax profit of Rs.3,250 crore, up from Rs.10,009 crore and Rs.2,813 crore respectively earned during 2009-10.

Last year, the division booked orders worth Rs.15,631 crore, taking the total outstanding order book size to Rs.39,121 crore.

The new orders include seven super critical boilers (boilers that can operate at very high temperature) including three 800 MW, one 700 MW and three 660 MW.

He said repeat orders for 10 sets of 270 MW boilers were received from the India Bulls group last year.

On the exports side, BHEL’s boiler division shipped out 11,500 tonnes of boiler components to countries like Indonesia, New Caledonia, Sudan and Belarus.

According to Krishnan, the advanced technology product manufacturing facilities are expanded to handle up to 700 MW nuclear power plant equipments like steam generators and reactor headers.

BHEL’s boiler division bagged orders for 32 reactor heads for 700 MW nuclear power stations and is executing orders for eight steam generators.