Larsen & Toubro Electricals Saudi Arabia Company Limited (LTESA), the leading technical engineering company, formed through the joint venture between Larsen & Toubro International FZE (LTFZE) and Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo, inaugurated on Sunday its electrical and automation products manufacturing facility in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. LTESA will engage in design, engineering and manufacturing, solution of conventional and intelligent power and motor control systems with automation in the low voltage (LV) and medium voltage (MV) categories as well as offering projects comprising allied products, to the fast developing Saudi Arabia's infrastructure, oil and gas and industrial sectors. Through LTFZE, Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T), India's leading engineering and construction company, had joined hands with Saudi Arabia's reputed house of Kanoo in March 2006 to offer a range of high end electrical and automation systems to Saudi Arabia and other markets. Since then LTESA was operating from a hired premises. The own premises getting inaugurated would boost the operation. The factory at Dammam Industrial Estate II was inaugurated by chief patrons R. N. Mukhija, president - Operations & member of the Board of L&T and Abdul Aziz Qassim Kanoo, deputy chairman of Saudi Arabia YBA Kanoo. Senior officials present on the occasion included the directors of LTESA Board, S. C. Bhargava, Bader Kanoo and S. K. Mukherjee. Mukhija said “LTESA is poised to bring L&T closer to customers and offer solutions and service with enhanced efficiency in the fast growing market of Saudi Arabia. I am sure the association between L&T and Kanoo, two prestigious business institutions, will grow beyond business and strengthen the bonds between Saudi Arabia and India.” LTESA has built this manufacturing facility on a 15000 sq. meters plot with office and shop floor area accounting for 7000 sq. meters. The facility has three air-conditioned modules for manufacturing, state-of-the-art powder coating plant, CNC punching machine, CNC bending machine, testing kits and assembly area. Besides auditorium, conference hall, library, recreation, and dining hall, there is a prayer room and cloakrooms for workmen. Larsen & Toubro Limited is $7 billion technology-driven engineering and construction organization. __
