Key industrial UPS players: 2011

Gaurav Burman, director, transaction business

APC by Schneider Electric is a global leader in critical power and cooling services. It provides industry leading products, software and systems for home, office, data centre and factory floor applications. Through its unparalleled commitment to innovation, APC provides pioneering, energy efficient solutions for critical technology and industrial applications that are well planned, flawlessly installed and maintained throughout their lifecycle.

APC solutions include uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), precision cooling units, racks, physical security, and design and management software, including APC’s InfraStruxure architecture, the industry’s most comprehensive integrated power, cooling, and management solution.

Contact details: 080-39872000; 1800-1800-4254-877/272 (toll free); Email: [email protected];  Website: www.apc.com

PS Deodhar,founder and chairman

Aplab has been operating in the global market for almost half a century, and offers a wide range of electronics products that meet international standards for safety and reliability such as UL, VDE, etc. The company has multiple product divisions, namely, T&M instruments, power conversion and controls, UPS systems, solar power products, banking and retail automation systems, fuel retailing solutions and cable fault locating instruments.  Aplab is a publicly quoted company on the BSE and has sales and support offices in more than 50 cities across India.

The company enjoys worldwide recognition for the quality of its products, its business integrity and innovative engineering skills. It is today a globally preferred source for T&M products and power systems. Its products meet EMI-EMC requirements and are CE marked. Strict adherence to quality norms, backed by high calibre inhouse R&D facilities, ensures compliance to international standards. Aplab is present in several market verticals like education, research, defence, avionics, space research, telecom, broadcasting services, banking and financial services, retail, the manufacturing industry, petroleum, petrochemicals, and many more. Its revenue for 2009-10 was Rs 1040 million.

Contact details: +91-22-67395555, 25821861; Fax: +91-22-25823137; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.aplab.com

Girish Arora, managing director

Base Corporation was founded in 1987 as an exclusive distributor for Panasonic’s brand of batteries in India. Base has tied up recently with two leading manufactures of UPS system in China, which are one of the largest manufactures of online UPS system and major supplier to leading brands worldwide. The UPS manufactured are specially designed for Indian conditions as Indian conditions are different as compared to China. Its products ranges from 1 kVA- 10 kVA online UPS and after a couple of months, it will increase its ranges from 1kVA to 50 kVA. With pan India presence of service network with qualified trained engineers, its online UPS system have become a preferred brand with OEMs as it takes care of service and replacement issues. The online UPS sold by Base has high reliability in terms of quality as its engineers work hand in hand with its Chinese countersparts. The systems are self tested by Base team at China before despatch to avoid any quality issues.

Contact details: Ph: 91-080-41635909, 40621900, 18001800007; Fax: 91-080-41104555; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.basebatteries.com

Rupesh Kumar, GM, sales and marketing

Best Power Equipments (I) Ltd (BPE), is one of the largest suppliers of UPS systems in the Indian market. Its UPS and power solutions have the best product specifications with the latest technology. The company has its own R&D and technical team, which enables it to offer competitive prices. It has earned all international certifications to prove the high quality of its entire UPS range of products. These are available in the 500VA- 4800 kVA range, having been manufactured by the best production houses worldwide.In a span of 11 years, BPE has excelled, proving its capability with all major OEMs and other companies such as Reliance Energy, NTPC, BHEL etc.

It provides after sales service through an extensive national network of service centres spread across the length and breadth of the country. With over 500,000 satisfied customers, BPE is well established in the field of power electronics. Its products are also certified by the Ministry of Defence. With its headquarters in Noida, BPE has gradually increased its product portfolio to include power solutions for IT, industrial and critical equipment. These include innovative energy saving applications that are backed by sound R&D and manufacturing capabilities, and it also offers site specific solutions.

Contact details: Ph: 0120-4143400; Fax: 0120-4143465; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.bpee.com, www.bpe.co.in

Dalip Sharma, managing director

Delta Electronics (India) is part of the Delta Group, headquartered in Taiwan. It is a world class provider of UPS systems, telecom power supplies, industrial automation machinery, components, renewable energy and consumer power visual displays. The group, which has been operating in India since 1992, is responsible for developing business in the SAARC region and is also recognised as the company’s ‘Centre for Technical Excellence’ for South Asia. Delta Electronics (India). It has an impressive installation base with regional support centres all over India and the SAARC region. It has been awarded ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 certification by Underwriters’ Laboratories, USA, for quality procedures, environment management, and also has OHSAS 18001:1999 certification. With more than a decade of research experience at the global level in UPS systems, development and manufacturing, it provides high quality, high efficiency, and high availability UPS products with outstanding cost performance. Globally, Delta is now a US$ 6 billion group and Delta India’s 2010 turnover was Rs 5453 million.

Contact details: +91-124-4874900; Fax: +91-124-4874945; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.deltaelectronicsindia.com

Anoop Nanda, managing director, South Asia, South East Asia and Japan

In operation since December 2000, Eaton Power Quality Pvt Ltd, South Asia, is a technology leader in UPS, power management and power distribution. Eaton focuses on delivering high customer value with the industry’s most efficient, highest density power supplies to increase business continuity. The company, which is a part of Eaton’s electrical sector operations, provides technology driven solutions that serve the critical needs of the industrial, utility, commercial, residential and information technology markets. It offers products and solutions for the AC-DC power conversion market, helping telecom enterprises become on-demand businesses. Its portfolio encompasses comprehensive power management solutions from a single source provider. This includes UPS (single and three phase), DC power systems, medium voltage (MV) and LV bus ducts, power distribution units (PDU), remote management systems and meters. Eaton’s UPS products fall into the 600 VA to 1100 kVA range, for single modules. For higher ratings, these single UPS modules can be paralleled in multiple numbers to deliver a combined power of 5500 kVA. A low TCO (total cost of operation), IGBT rectifier UPS design helps in reducing costs, weight, footprint and heat. Eaton products also feature advanced battery management.

Contact details: +91-11-42232300; Fax: +91-11-42232399; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.eaton.in

Sandeep Nair, president and managing director

Emerson Network Power is a subsidiary of Emerson, the global leader in enabling business critical continuity. The company provides end-to-end data centre solutions to its customers. Since its transition from Tata Liebert to Emerson Network Power India in 2001, the company has moved from being a UPS and precision AC manufacturer to a global leader in enabling business critical continuity solutions. Its product offerings include automatic transfer switches (ATS), transient voltage surge suppression (TVSS) products, home and office UPS systems, precision air conditioning, racks and enclosures, DC power systems, and the Avocent and Aperture lines of DCIM solutions. All its products are based on the adaptive architecture model, allowing IT managers to upgrade as per changing business requirements without incurring significant costs. The company also provides power audit services to its customers. Its data centre infrastructure management solutions help government institutions manage their IT infrastructure effectively, while saving on power consumption and total cost of ownership.

Contact details: 022-33154400; Fax: 022-25828358; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.emersonnetworkpower.co.in

Anoop Aggarwal, executive partner

Established in 2000, Indo Power Systems (IPS) has achieved an admirable position among its customers, as it does not compromise on the quality of its products and believes in customer satisfaction. It is widely known for manufacturing high performance UPS systems—industrial online UPS, offline UPS, sine wave home UPS, power inverter, servo controlled voltage stabiliser, automatic voltage stabliser, isolation transformer, converters, battery charger, etc. The company boasts of a vast customer network through its valuable dealers.
Located in Jaipur, it has a dealer network across India. Led by Anoop Aggarwal, who has an experience of almost a decade in this field, it has attained a distinguished position in the field of power. Its team of dynamic professionals is dedicated and committed to the manufacture and supply of the best quality uninterruptible power supplies at highly economic prices to satisfy customers. IPS aims to provide safe and reliable power control systems to its customers, and to meet customer requirements in terms of specification and quality.

Contact details: Ph: 0141-5101259, 5109259, 09414071579; Email: [email protected], [email protected]; Website: www.ips2k.com

Jagdeep Chauhan, managing director

Kevin Power Solutions is a premier company in the field of power backup solutions offering the most innovative products that facilitate a modern lifestyle. Since its inception in 2004, the company has invested tremendously in research, design and innovation, as well as developing and manufacturing inverters, UPS devices and batteries. It has two modern state of the art manufacturing facilities at Roorkee and Haridwar (Uttaranchal). The facility in Haridwar has a capacity to produce 25,000 inverters per month. The company is one of the upcoming leading players in power conditioning. It is also known for incorporating research backed, high end technology and proven state of the art power conversion equipment across the globe. Its key strength lies in innovation and its inhouse R&D facilities for power conversion equipment. Some of the major products from Kevin are home UPS systems in the 600VA-2.5 kVA range, and 5-60 kVA online UPS systems. It also offers 5-10 kVA inverters for industrial use; and 600 VA-12 kVA static UPS systems and 3-60 kVA online UPS for corporate use.

Contact details: 0120-4775777; Fax: 0120-4775755; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.kevinsolutions.net

Luminous Power Technologies (P) Ltd is a leading global company delivering high quality power products for home and commercial applications. The company’s group portfolio includes power backup, power storage, distributed power generation, renewable, alternate and hybrid energy solutions incorporating solar and wind energy, infrastructure solutions for IT and telecom, engineering design and support services, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, electricals, water purification, and mobile phones and accessories.

Founded in 1988, the group had revenue exceeding US$ 250 million in the FY 09-10, and is projected to cross US$ 500 million by the FY 10-11. Apart from its dominant position in the domestic market, Luminous has a strong foothold in over 36 countries worldwide. Its global technology centres located in India, USA and China deliver cutting edge technology that goes into placing every Luminous product in a class apart from its competitors. Luminous follows its proprietary UGC (universal grid compatibility) process to ensure consistency and the high standards of reliability across the globe. It has consistently won awards and accolades for market leadership and excellent reliability of its products in the domestic as well as in the international arena.

Contact details: +91-11-25558913-20, 40778221/222, 9953655159; Fax: 25558912; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.luminousindia.com

NK Aggarwal, chairman

Microtek International is the country’s largest power products company, manufacturing line interactive UPS solutions, online UPS, digital and sine wave inverters, UPS EB, UPS E², etc. The company has set up state of the art manufacturing plants equipped with hi-tech machinery incorporating SMT, ICT and automatic assembly lines. It has an in-house R&D facility that’s fully equipped with the latest design software, apart from development hardware with testing and field condition simulation equipment. All the manufacturing facilities of Microtek have ISO 9001-2000 certification. Microtek has a strong national network with 305 service points, 50 service centres and more than 12,000 dedicated and committed distributors and dealers, besides its own exclusive shops. It has a wide base of more than 100 million satisfied users. Its major digital and sine wave products are available in the 400 VA -10 kVA range, while its high end range of sine wave inverters come in the 2.2 kVA-10 kVA range, and its world class online UPS systems are available in the 1 kVA-30 kVA range.  Microtek is claimed to be India’s most preferred brand as well as most awarded brand also.

Contact details: 011-42733377; Fax:011-42733399, 25472907; Email: [email protected], Website: www.microtekdirect.com

R Chellappan, founder and managing director

Numeric is one of India’s leading UPS and power electronics company with a presence in over 12 countries. Numeric provides world class UPS solutions, power conditioning products and renewable energy solutions conforming to international standards. The company has focused on the excellent quality of its products and its high process uptime, enhancing the power conditioning standards in the Indian UPS market. Numeric is an Indian multinational company with its own manufacturing facilities in India—at Pondicherry, Chennai, Salem, and Parwanoo, apart from a plant in Sri Lanka. Abroad, it is supported by its own subsidiaries in Singapore, Mauritius, South Africa  and partner offices in USA and UK.

Its major products and services offered include UPS, inverters/home power products, voltage stabilisers, isolation transformers, active harmonic filters, source transfer switches, intelligent power distribution units, energy storage solutions, solar power and green energy solutions. The specialised services offered by Numeric include high quality power management solutions, wide UPS capacity assessment and sizing, installation and testing and commissioning, etc. It has 14 regional offices and 250 service centres across India. Its revenue for 2009-2010 was Rs 4874.7 million.

Contact details: Ph: +91 -44 -24993266; Fax:+91 -44 –24995179; Email: [email protected]; Website; www.numericups.com

Anil Munjal, CEO and director

Riello PCI India Pvt Ltd is a joint venture between Riello, a leading European company in power protection technology, and PCI Ltd, a pioneer in India and an international front runner in the field of technology based solutions in the power and energy domain since the last two decades. Riello is the third largest UPS manufacturer in the world and provides a complete range of UPS systems ranging from 1 VA to 6400 kVA. Its UPS systems have been supporting industrial houses in the Indian sub-continent for the past 15 years, and has a very wide customer base covering IT loads, electro-medical and industrial equipment, radar and telecommunication systems and various other mission critical applications covering practically all segments of the economy. It has a country wide initiative to become the most environment friendly power protection company. Riello UPS is a major contributor to the European Commission’s Code of Conduct on Energy Efficiency and Quality of Uninterruptible Power Supplies—and the first European manufacturer to rate its products for ECO energy level efficiency. It is also ISO 14001:2004, ISO 9001:2008 and CE Mark (Communaute Europeenne) certified. It has offices in 27 locations spread across 16 major cities in India. In Europe, Riello operates from two research and manufacturing facilities—one in Italy, at Leganago (near Veona) and the other in Milan.

Contact details: 011-41888999; Fax: 91-11-25755815, 25821623; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.riello-pci.com

Jerome Rodriguez, managing director

Set up in 1922, Socomec is an industrial group with a workforce of 2300 people. It specialises in controlling and protecting low voltage electrical networks. The company exercises full control over its design and manufacturing processes as its main operations are integrated within the group’s various factories, and this guarantees consistent manufacturing quality and respect for delivery deadlines. With a strong international presence, including bases in more than 70 countries, 22 of which are subsidiaries, the Socomec group is a major player in the global low voltage power distribution market. Backed by two European centres of excellence (in France and Italy), the Group benefits from competitive production sites (Tunisia) and those located in the major emerging markets (India and China).
Socomec started its India operations in 1992 in Chennai and now has regional offices across the country. Its product offerings are in the 550 VA to 5400 kVA range.  It has well qualified and trained sales, service and project management teams deployed across the country. Since the teams are involved in sales and after sales support, customer requirements are well understood and suitable solutions are provided. Design and production functions in every Socomec UPS factory are ISO 9001 certified.

Contact details: +91-44-39215423; Fax: +91-44-39215450; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.socomec-ups.co.in

Kunwer Sachdev, managing director

Founded in 1998, Su-kam Power Systems Ltd is one of the leader in power backup solutions and has retained its position for years. With a market share of more than 40 per cent, Su-Kam products have set benchmarking standards for the industry. In fact, the company has played a seminal role in consolidating and upgrading the inverter industry from the unorganised to the organised sector, thereby adding immense value to the industry as a whole. In the process, it has established itself as a leader in product innovation, design sensibilities and sales distribution networks. From its very inception, the company has invested significantly in R&D. With a dedicated team of 40 highly experienced people, its R&D unit has grown from strength to strength. It is the only power backup company to have earned remarkable recognition from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India, for its contribution to technology.
It is also credited with the largest number of patents filed for technology and design. Its current record is over 50 patents, 80 copyrights and 38 trademarks. Su-Kam has earned coveted certification from the most stringent certifying organisations globally, some of which are CE, UL, ISO 9000:2001 and ISO 14001:2004.

Contact details: Ph: 0124-4170500; Fax: 0124-4038700; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.su-kam.com

TJ Subhash, managing director

Since its establishment in 1988, Supra has gained considerable expertise and deep insight into power control technology. It has emerged as one of the largest and most innovative designers and manufacturers of power control systems and equipment in India. Its R&D centre has qualified and skilled technical talent, with rich hands on experience. These professionals are constantly involved in research, innovation, re-engineering and reverse engineering to ensure that the quality and performance of its  products are equal to the best, internationally. Its products are exported to the Middle East, SAARC countries, Africa and Europe. The company has always strived to be a quality driven, technology based, customer oriented organisation, taking into account both the current and future requirements of the industry. This emphasis on quality has earned the firm the coveted ISO 9001:2008 certification from the National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies. Besides its headquarters in Kochi, it has a chain of independent offices and complete facilities throughout India. Its major products are online UPS—the digital Orange series (1 kVA-10 kVA), the digital Blue series (1 kVA- 30 kVA), the digital Green series (5 kVA-200 kVA) and the HFD series. It also offers line interactive UPS systems, servo controlled voltage stabilisers, solar power generators, etc.

Contact details: Ph: 0484 2330906/2333880; Fax: 0484-2337132; Email:  [email protected]; Website: www.suprahitech.com

Ravi Mundra, CEO

Truepower is a leading power products manufacturing company in the field of power electronics (inverters and UPS systems) in India and abroad. Established in 1993, the company has always worked towards technology advancement through innovative ideas and a wide product range and has, thereby, established new benchmarks for the industry and is treated as a technology leader. The company is now focusing on renewable and alternate energy solutions. Its dedicated and vast dealer network across the country enables it to develop products specially designed to suit Indian conditions and global requirements. True Power’s state of the art production facilities are systematically planned and built to modern production standards. The plants are equipped with sophisticated assembly lines and are supported by trained engineers, as well as inhouse R&D centres. The vision of the R&D team is to design rugged, reliable, cost effective and user friendly products and to offer value for money to customers. An ISO 9001 certified company, Truepower products have the ERTL certification and are also SONCAP certified for exports. The other products in its portfolio are solar inverters, renewable energy products, line interactive UPS systems, online UPS systems, batteries, stabilisers, gas geysers, electric geysers, RO purifiers, etc.

Contact details: Ph: +91-11-27833603/604, 1800112020 (toll free); Fax: +91-11-27833606; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.truepower.in

RK Bansal, managing director

Established in 1989, Uniline is one of the leading manufacturers of line interactive/offline/online UPS systems providing complete power solutions. It started out as a trading company with an investment of only
Rs 20,000, and today, is among the top three Indian UPS system manufacturers. It began manufacturing line interactive offline UPS systems in 1996 under its brand name ‘Uniline’. In 2000, it started manufacturing online (single phase) UPS systems and online (three phase) UPS systems up to 20 kVA. By 2006, its range included online (three phase) UPS up to 250 kVA. It has also set up a manufacturing plant in Parwanoo (HP) in 2006. Its sales and service offices are spread across India, with 16 branch offices and resident engineers at 84 locations. Its manufacturing facilities are certified under ISO 9001/14001/CE as well as EMC/safety. It has won many awards like the Udyog Pragati Award. Its future plans include entering the domestic inverter market for small homes as well as the higher kVA inverter (starting from 5-100 kVA) market targeting hotels, farm houses, large offices, etc. It also aims to provide solar power solutions of up to 300 kVA.

Contact details: 011-46661111/26469039; Fax: 011-26481469; Email: [email protected]; Website:  www.unilineindia.com

Yogesh Dua, partner

Established in 1996, UTL is a well known name among online UPS system manufacturers. Its products range from online home UPS inverters and inverter batteries to water purifiers and CFLs, besides its well known products like UTL Hoodi.backup (sine wave combo UPS systems), UTL online UPS systems, UTL Amrit Kalash (reverse osmosis systems) and UTL Megalux (compact fluorescent lamps). In the last 10 years, UTL has proven its mettle by increasing its customer base many times over by building up a reputation for assured quality and honest prices. The reliability of its products is its best  advertisement. Its factory at Parwanoo (HP) has a production capacity of 1000 online UPS units a day. It has one of the largest sine wave UPS dealer networks in India, comprising more than 2000 dealers. UTL has a presence in many Asian countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh, apart from African countries like Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. The company is also looking forward to expanding its presence across the globe. Its philosophy is to lead through technology in both aspects of business—product and service.

Contact details: Ph: +91-9968309514, 9968309517, 9811106176, +91 11 65168534, 65805761; Fax: +91-11-47055440; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.upsINVERTER.com

Kochouseph Chittilappilly, managing director

Established in 1977, V-Guard has grown on the basis of its firm belief in quality consciousness, a passion for hard work and the will to succeed. Its winning edge is in its technological excellence, automation and computerisation that have combined to help the company which is now on the threshold of achieving Rs 10 billion turnover. Its major products are stabilisers, offline and online UPS systems, pumps, motors, electric and gas water heaters, PVC house wiring cables, LT power and control cables, fans, solar water heaters and inverters. After diversifying into the UPS segment in 1998, the V-Guard brand today enjoys immense popularity across the nation and is now making a global presence with its increasing exports into markets across the world. Its online UPS series starts from 1kVA to 60 kVA to match the wide range of customer requirements from different verticals. The salient features of UPS systems are DSP controllers with the triple conversion feature, IGBT switching technology, galvanic isolation, internal static switches and APFC. The recently launched Veyon Dx 3/3 series is designed for unmatched load handling, excellent efficiency and, in addition, has active power factor compensation which helps customers in energy conservation.

Contact details: 0484-3005000; Service helpline–180030001800 (toll free); Fax: 0484-3005100; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.vguard.in