L&T in pact with GE Energy

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Friday , May 16, 2008 at 1125 hrs Engineering and construction major Larsen and Toubro on Friday said it has entered into a strategic partnership with GE Energy for focusing on the Indian power generation market.

"L&T was looking to provide reliable control systems offering for the rapidly developing power generation sector in order to complete its electrical and automation suite," L&T President Operations and member of the board R N Mukhija said.

As per the partnership agreement, GE Energy would provide its power plant main control system products to L&T, the company said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.

While, L&T would leverage its strengths in engineering and project execution as well as experience in the Indian market to deliver comprehensive power plant automation solution to customers.

"This agreement with GE for the OC4000 series DCS, fulfills this need and is an important step in serving the power plant automation space," Mukhija added.