Suzlon Energy, the world’s fifth-largest wind turbine maker, is in discussions with a consortium of wind equipment component manufacturers in Belgium, in addition to some leading turbine manufacturers in Europe, such as Vestas, to sell off its gear box manufacturing subsidiary, Hansen Transmission. The company aims to raise about $1 billion from the sale of a 61.3% stake.

 

Suzlon is evaluating four proposals and the deal could be concluded within a month or two. At present, Denmark-based Vestas and a Belgium-based consortium of major wind component makers are the frontrunners for Hansen, which has manufacturing assets in India, China and Belgium.

 

The divesture of Hansen would not affect the gearbox requirements of Suzlon. One of the main aspects of the discussions includes continuation of Hansen as a supplier of gearboxes for Suzlon. Currently, Suzlon procures only 40 per cent of its gear box requirements from Hansen, that too only from last year. A majority of its supplies are from the German gearbox maker Winenergy AG, which has manufacturing units in Chennai, Tianjin in China and the US, besides Germany.

 

Suzlon has a debt of about Rs 13,000 crore and has to repay a part of it soon. The company had posted a loss of Rs 453 crore for the first quarter of 2009-10, mainly due to poor order inflow. The company recently undertook fund raising of $202 million, through Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) of $108 million and $94 million, via an issue of zero-coupon convertible bonds.crackcrack

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