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75 YEARS JOURNEY
Our heritage in India –
75 years of pioneering progress
Hindustan
Electric
Company is
incorporated
New manufacturing
facility set up in Maneja,
Vadodara – the flagship
circuit breaker factory.
Hindustan Electric
Company name changed
to Hindustan Brown
Boveri Ltd after merging
with BBC
ASEA and BBC
merge globally
Commissioned India’s
first long distance
(814kms) HVDC link
Rihand - Delhi HVDC
1,500 MW, ±500 kV
1949 1962
1988
1990
1960
-61 1984
1989
2007
Expands manufacturing
of transformers and HT
air blast circuit breakers
<220kV in Howrah
and Baroda (Vadodara)
as part of a technical
collaboration with Brown
Boveri & Cie (BBC)
ASEA started
manufacturing
in Bangalore
(Bengaluru)
Hindustan Brown Boveri Ltd name
changed to ASEA Brown Boveri Ltd
Commissioned first back-to-back
HVDC transmission link for NTPC at
Vindhyachal, connecting northern
and western grids
India Operations
Center for Power Grids
Business launched in
Chennai*
*Not part of the listed entity Hitachi Energy India Ltd
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