BEML & Indian Navy Sign MoU For Marine Engineering

Bengaluru headquartered BEML, India’s leading defence and heavy engineering PSU, on Tuesday signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding

BEML & Indian Navy Sign MoU For Marine Engineering

Bengaluru headquartered BEML, India’s leading defence and heavy engineering PSU, on Tuesday signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding with the Directorate of Marine Engineering, Indian Navy. The agreement was signed at the Naval Headquarters in Delhi, with Ajit Kumar Srivastav, Director of Defence at BEML, and Rear Admiral K Srinivas, ACOM (D&R) of the Indian Navy.

The collaboration will enhance indigenous marine engineering capabilities, ensuring that both current and future naval projects are equipped with state-of-the-art, domestically produced technology, BEML said. The partnership aims to bolster self-reliance in defence production and reduce dependence on foreign imports, according to the firm. This alliance is focused on meeting immediate operational requirements while also fortifying long-term defence infrastructure, it added.

BEML

Bharat Earth Movers Limited, is an Indian public sector undertaking which manufactures a variety of heavy equipment, such as that used for earth moving, railways, transport and mining. It is headquartered in Bangalore. BEML is Asia’s 2^ndlargest manufacturer of earth moving equipment. BEML has manufacturing plants in Kolar Gold Fields, Bangalore, Mysore and Palakkad. It has numerous regional offices throughout the country.

BEML manufactures a wide range of products to meet the needs of mining, construction, power, irrigation, fertiliser, cement, steel and rail sectors. The earthmoving equipment includes bulldozers, dump trucks, hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, rope shovels, walking draglines, motor graders and scrapers.

Defense & Aerospace

BEML plays a key role in the country’s Integrated Guided Missile Development Project by supplying ground support vehicles. A new Aerospace division was launched during Aero India 2009. The division manufactures Ground support equipment such as Aircraft Towing Tractor, Aircraft Weapon Loading Trolley, Multi-purpose Weapon Loaders and Crash Fire Tender.