Reliance Power Reports Positive Q3 FY11 Earning with Rosa Power Plant Firing 105 percent PLF
Reliance Power, the largest private sector power company of India, reported consolidated net profit up 7.5% at Rs 144 crore for Q3, FY11, compared to Rs 134 crore in Q3, FY10. The consolidated other income was Rs 103 crore vs Rs 179 crore YoY.
“Rosa I has stablised and operating at 105% PLF. The company plans to add three new capacities in the next fiscal year. We achieved financial closure on Sasan project last year. And the company is going for refinancing of projects with cheaper foreign debt.” said JP Chalasani, CEO Reliance Power. Read more
ABB launches new 15kg Integrated Dressing Robot
Filed under: Energy, Engineering, Manufacturing, Technology
10 Feb 2011 — The IRB 2600ID robot of ABB with 15kg handling capacity increases productivity, simplifies programming and lowers overall operating costs in materials handling and machine tending applications.
ABB has added an additional Integrated Dressing (ID) robot to its IRB 2600 range of mid-sized robots. The IRB 2600ID with 1.85 metre reach has a 15kg payload capacity and a total upper arm load of 26kg. The new robot is designed with materials handling and machine tending applications in mind and comes complete with a flexible conduit for routing cables and hoses for signals, air and power inside the robot’s upper arm and wrist.
According to Per Lowgren, product manager at ABB, the current trend in industrial robotic design is for integrated cables in the upper arms of robots. A robot with integrated dressing increases output and lowers operational costs, but until now, ID robots have been designed only for arc welding. With its increased load capacity the IRB 2600ID is well suited for applications such as case packing, machine tool tending, small format palletizing, plastic injection molding machine tending and foundry parts handling. Read more