Thermax is scouting overseas to buy a company worth $10-100 million in industrial waste-water treatment space. The target market for water treatment projects in India is worth Rs. 4,000-4,500 crore. Within this, the industrial waste water market would be worth around Rs. 1,500 crore, so Thermax would acquire a company for technology.
The planned acquisition is aimed at gaining sophisticated technology to treat industrial waste water. The company has technology tie-ups with GE Water for sewage treatment and Wehrle Umwelt GmbH for industrial waste-water treatment. Thermax’s water- and waste-water business portfolio offers treatment and recycling solutions for industrial, commercial, defence, hospitality, and municipal sectors.
The engineering and capital goods company owns 8% of the water business market. The company makes products and provides services for industrial heating and cooling, waste heat recovery, captive power units, water treatment and recycling, waste management and performance chemicals.
It is not leveraged at the balance-sheet level and also has cash of Rs. 733 crore available, so financing the acquisition will not be difficult. Thermax will spend Rs. 400 crore on capital expenditure in 2011-12. It would be spending Rs. 200 crore on Thermax standalone entity and another Rs. 200 crore on its joint venture with Babcock-Wilcox. Thermax, with Babcock-Wilcox, is developing a Rs. 825-crore plant to manufacture super critical boilers.
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