HEAVY ENGINEERING CORPORATION LIMITED It is one of India's oldest and largest engineering companies . It is the biggest industry of its kind in Asia. The company is engaged in the manufacture and supply of capital equipments, machine tools and spares needed for the core sector industries. It has complete manufacturing set up starting from casting & forging, fabrication, machining, assembly and testing - all at one location backed by a strong design - engineering and technology team.
MANUFACTURING UNITS Foundry Forge Plant (FFP) Heavy Machine Building Plant (HMBP) Heavy Machine Tool Plant (HMTP)
FOUNDRY & FORGE PLANT The installed capacity of the plant FFP: 44000 T of casting and forgings. The plant was established in collaboration with SKODAEXPORT of erstwhile USSR and equipped with facilities for melting, heavy and medium casting, all types of forging and machining. It manufactures medium and heavy castings/forgings for coal, defence, railway power and other engineering sector products. It also manufactures rolls for hot rolling mill and cold rolling mill of steel plant and crankshaft for railways
Some of the major facilities installed in FFP plant are :
Arc furnaces of capacity 5t, 10t, 20t and 60t. Vacuum arc degassing furnace of capacity 60t. Hydraulic forge presses of capacity 6000t, 2650t, 1650t and 1000t. 3t hammer, a series of small free forgings hammers and die forging presses. Various ranges of machine tools including one lathe of 53m bed length. Low frequency induction hardening machine for CRM rolls (25 mm depth). Centrifugal casting facility for slender bushes (350 mm dia and 1m long). Horizontal and vertical mist quenching equipment for quality heat treatment, producer gas & oxygen plant
HEAVY MACHINE BUILDING PLANT The plant was established in collaboration with ROMASEXPORT of erstwhile USSR and equipped with facilities for machining, gear cutting, heavy structurals and heat treatment. The plant comprises the following shops:- 1.Heavy Machine Shop 2.Medium and small machine shop 3. Reduction gear shop 4.Block of coke oven shop 5.Heat treatment and forging shop 6.Tools shop 7. Repair shop 8.Structural fabrication shop.
Some of the major facilities installed in HMBP plant are as follows Giant lathe (SOB:4 m, CD:20m) CNC vertical turning and boring machine (job dia, 14m, job weight 250t) CNC plano milling machine (job size 3.5mx7mx2.5m,job weight 120t). CNC Horizontal boring machine (200 mm spindle dia x 18 m col.travel) CNC flame cutting machine (Max job size 25mx6.2m upto 500 mm thick). Gear cutting machine (max job dia 5m, max. module 40mm hobbing).
Important features of HMBP The Plant has a fenced area of 5,70,000sq.m and a floor area of nearly 2,00,000 sq.m. It is well equipped with sophisticated machine tools and handling equipments to undertake manufacture of heavy machinery and equipment of top quality. . It is engaged in design and manufacture of equipments and components for Steel Plant, Mining, Mineral Processing, Crushers, Material Handling, Cranes, Power, Cement, Aluminium, Space Research, Nuclear Power etc.. HEAVY MACHINE TOOLS PLANT The plant was established in collaboration with SKODA of erstwhile, CSSR and equipped with facilities for manufacturing heavy machine tools- both conventional and CNC version. It has also design and R&D wing manned with trained and experienced engineers. The plant is equipped with CNC machine tools, conventional machine tools, induction hardening equipment etc. Important features of HMTP HMTP is the most modern and sophisticated of its kind in the country which produces machine tools in heavier ranges. . The Plant covers an area of over 2,13,500sq.m. It designs and manufactures medium & heavy duty CNC and conventional Machine Tools for Railways, Defense, Ordnance factories, HAL, Space and other strategic sectors. Major Achievements
Over 550 thousand tons of equipment manufactured and supplied to Steel Sector. Significant contribution in setting up of Bokaro and Vizag. Steel plant. Equipment supplied for expansion of Bhilai Steel Plant. Supplied to almost all the Steel plants of India. Supplied over 580 Excavators (of 4.6 /5 /10 CuM capacity) Supplied 12 numbers of 24 CuM Draglines. Supplied over 10 numbers of Heavy Duty Gyratory 1500 TPH crushers. Manufactured over 300 numbers of Cranes. Supplied over 900 Machine Tools.
Various Furnace facilities:
Melting Furnaces: IN NUMBERS 30T Electric arc Furnace 2
10T Electric arc Furnace 1
5T Induction Furnace 1
2T Induction Furnace 1
Secondary Refinement Furnaces: 60T Vacuum Arc Degassing unit 1
90T Vacuum Degassing unit 2
60T Ladle Furnace 1
Forging Facilities
6000T Hydraulic Press 2650T Hydraulic Press 1650T Hydraulic Press 1000T Hydraulic Press 3T/1.6T Hammer Die Forging Units
1 no. 1 no. 1 no. 1 no. 2 nos. (15T & 1600 Kg) 1 each
Heat Treatment Facilities
Low Frequency Induction Hardening M/c (50 Cycles) Medium Frequency Induction M/c (1000 Cycles) Nitriding Furnace Thermal Stability Testing Equipment Vertical & Horizontal Mist Quenching M/c (Up to 50T & 18M long jobs) Electric H/T Pit Furnace up to 18 m Depth Bogies Type H/T Furnace up to 12mx 6m x 3.5m Bogies Type H/T Furnace up to 19m x 4m x 3m Electric Pit Furnace dia 2.5m
Machining Facilities CNC Heavy Duty Gear Shaper Pitch Dia Internal/External Gear 500 mm, Module Max 8mm Gear Shaper (Speciality - Narrow Gap Herringbone gears) Max. Dia 1800mm, Max. Module 18mm Vertical Gear Hobbing M/C Max Job Dia 5M, Module 50 mm, Max. Width of Job 2M Horizontal Gear Hobbing M/C Max Job Dia 5M, Module 40 mm, Max. Job Length 5.6M Gear Grinding Machines Max. Dia 1800mm, Max. Module 0.5mm to 16mm Lathes: Max. swing over bed 4M Max. distance between centres 20M CNC Vertical Turning and Boring M/c : Max Job Dia 14M Max Job weight 250T
Fabrication Facilities CNC Flame Cutting M/c (Tanaka Make) Max. Job size 25M x 6.2M - Up to 500mm thickness.
Plate Bending Machine for bending upto 80 mm plate thickness(for 1000 mm wide.)
Pipe bending machine for pipes 63 mm diameter.
Edge Planning Machine
MIG & TIG welding.
Electro slag welding
Submerged arc welding machine Contribution to Indian Railways HEC is a regular supplier of various Machine Tools including Special Purpose Machine Tools for different Railway Workshops, Crank Shafts to DLW, Varanasi for Diesel Locomotives. Special Purpose Machine Tools supplied to Railways are: Surface Wheel Lathes (Conventional and CNC version) Under Floor Wheel Lathes (Conventional and CNC version) Axle Journal Turning & Burnishing Machine AREA OF BUSINESS
Steel Plant and equipment Mining & mineral processing equipment(coal,al,cu etc) Machine tools Power Railway Space research application Defence Cement Atomic & nuclear power
HEC Future Plans
Castings/Forgings for nuclear power plant in the range up to 500-1000 MW Fabrication & Machining of various components required for nuclear power plant in the range up to 500-1000 MW. Manufacture of components like: - Reactor Pressure Vessel - Main Vessel/Inner Vessel - Radiation Shield Assembly - Turbine - Shell Forging - Various types of Nozzles etc. REFERENCES Handbooks and files of HEC http://www.hecltd.com http://www.hecltd.com/hec_achievements.html http://www.hecltd.com/hec_jobs.html
Turning and Boring
A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc.