Surya Roshni has infused Rs 15 crore for technological upgrade aimed at expanding its footprint in the light-emitting diode (LED) market. It has invested Rs 15 crore on an R&D test laboratory at Noida. The company aims a turnover of Rs 5,000 crore during the current financial year from Rs 3,000 crore in 2011-12.
The entity will replaced 40W and 60W incandescent lamps by LED 5W and 7W bulbs which according to the company will be the first such LED bulb in the country to conform to recent LED Indian standards. LED has a long life of 50,000 hours, a wide-ranging operating voltage (110 to 300V), free of mercury and a whopping energy saving of over 96%.
Surya Roshni was incorporated in 1973 with a steel pipe plant located at Bahadurgarh in Haryana. Presently, this plant has emerged as one of the largest in Asia, with a production capacity of 180000 MT of steel pipes annually. Today company’s product portfolio comprise of fluorescent tube lights, GLS lamps, CFL lamps, HPSV Lamps, HPMV Lamps Metal Halide Lamps and ERW pipe.