Supreme in 2019
Supreme & Co. Pvt Ltd has evolved in the last 48 years from a nut and bolt manufacturing unit to a major player in the transmission and distribution sector, manufacturing most of the hardware and accessories right from LV (low voltage) up to 1,200 kV.
Year 2019 was a good year, especially for our exports and innovative solutions due to pick up in demand for DDUGJY (Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana) and IPDS (Integrated Power Development Scheme) projects. There was significant demand from intra-state transmission sector. Growth in reconductoring business created demand for more innovative ERS (emergency restoration system) based bypass solutions. The availability of wide range of anchoring solutions with Supreme enabled the erection of ERS structures in all kinds of soil. The cost of such provisional tower is around one third of ERS solutions currently being imported.
Future Roadmap
Apart from consolidating our position in our core areas we would more focus on Railways electrification, aerial fibre optics, ERS solution, monopole structures, high mast poles and smart poles in the future year.
The countries of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) continue to be pictured as having low per capita energy consumption, inadequate infrastructure, inaccessible and costly energy availability. There is focus on increasing the power connectivity in this region. The development of transmission system in these regions will get a balance between capacity and requirement in an efficient manner. Also, the private investments in Bangladesh are offering a new market opportunity. The growth is also seen in multilateral funding from agencies such as AAIB (The Arab-African International Bank) and EXIM bank. Also, in Afghanistan, the shift is majorly towards power generation with renewables. Referring these developments in the SAARC nations, export market will be our prime focus for the year ahead.
Key Differentiators
We have not concentrated ourselves in manufacturing only transmission towers and electrical hardware but we have also been working for the last couple of years on a product which will make a big impact in the transmission line sector. We planned on developing a solution which will help in reducing the outage time of transmission line. This led to the development of ERS (emergency restoration system) towers, an indigenous product of Supreme. We have developed ERS that is used in case of any line reconductoring or re-routing. It is a temporary structure designed to bypass the existing transmission towers of any voltage in any terrain. They will be used until the main line is reconductored or restored.
The entire structure can then be disassembled and reused. There are enormous benefits of ERS since such modular and light weight and can be erected in any kind of soil. Unlike the old restoration techniques, the line is restored and charged within few hours by using our ERS and thus, prevent a huge financial loss of the utilities. Our emergency restoration technique is a unique solution to cope up with the emergencies caused by the natural calamities as well as for line uprating. Supreme’s ERS tower can be erected in all catastrophic conditions.
We had to face a lot of challenges recently during execution of a project of Uttar Pradesh Power Transmission Corporation Ltd. to bypass a 132- kV line from Vaishali to Sahibabad which was a hindrance for the completion of 400 kV line. It was quite challenging as the line route had flyover, river and highway crossing. Three ERS towers were installed without any disruption to the highway traffic. Restoration to evacuate 580 MW power was completed within four days with a line shutdown of only four hours by using ERS.
As we all know that extremely severe cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ made a landfall in Puri on Odisha coast on 3rd May, 2019 (Friday morning) – triggering heavy rainfall accompanied with gusty wind at speed above 175 kmph. The storm lashed out its fury over the coastal district of Puri and other adjoining district with severe disaster. As per the official sources besides other major infrastructure, the entire power installations in and around Puri district got devastated in the cyclonic storm, which damaged 75 towers of 220 kV and 25 towers of 132 kV. India’s first indigenously developed steel-based ERS tower by us was used to substitute the wrecked 132 kV towers between Lilo and Puri-Samkuha. This enables charging between Puri Grid and Samkuha Grid to transfer bulk load of 70 MW.
Supreme at ELECRAMA 2020
We are participating in ELECRAMA 2020. The purpose of exhibiting in ELECRAMA 2020 is displaying our offering, expertise and innovative products to our customers at one common and recognised platform where all power or energy sector entities gather together. Proposed RBSM (Reverse Buyer Seller Meet) and other parallel events will also further increase fruitfulness of ELECRAMA for players like us. No other event packs in as much value as ELECRAMA does. Apart from our extremely diversified range of products in electrical T&D, Railways electrification and telecommunications, we shall be displaying our innovations like ERS solutions, inter-phase spacers, integrated line arrester cum suspension insulator for covered conductor system, ADSS and Figure8 Fittings, monopole type structures and smart poles.
ELECRAMA is an integral part of our market building strategy and we achieved a fair share of success with ELECRAMA over the years by forging new relationships, developing new markets, generating leads for new customers, new partners and new resources.
