Alacrity Electronics Ltd (517362) Share Analysis – Quality, Valuation Zone, Price Trend & DeciZen Rating

Alacrity Electronics (AEL) is a member of the Chennai-based Alacrity Group of Companies. It was incorporated on October 12, 1992. Alacrity Electronics is primarily involved in the manufacture and marketing of electronic power protection equipment and electrical energy management systems. The registered office of the company is located at Atandra, 25, Thirumalai Road, Chennai-600017, Tamil Nadu.

The company`s product range covers power conditioners including stabilizers and isolation transformers under the KRYKARD brand name. It has over 200,000 installations supporting computers, photocopiers, CNC machines, textile machines, medical electronics, telecom, and other areas. In the energy management segment, the company offers panel mounted load managers like the PLM cube series and portable load managers like the new generation portable load manager ALM 30/ALM 32.

The company’s KRYKARD brand of Servo Controlled Voltage Stabilisers and Load Managers – electrical energy management systems - are acknowledged as outstanding products of enduring value that have changed the way major energy users have regulated, controlled and measured electrical power. For over 25 years, Alacrity’s strategically designed products in Power Conditioning and Instrumentation & Control have enabled Industry reduce costs by improving power quality and managing energy. Energy Management - The Alacrity Way enables customers to take charge of their energy costs through appropriate investments for long-term sustainable benefits.

Products & Services:

Alacrity Electronics products and services enable optimum and effective usage of available energy resources. Electrical energy conservation acquires vital significance in the context of constrained resources in power generation. AEL’s strategically designed products cater to critical needs in Power Conversion, Power Conditioning and Instrumentation & Control.

Power Conditioners:The KRYKARD range of Power Conditioners protect and enhance productivity of critical & sensitive machines & equipment by providing reliable, clean and healthy power. The product range covers Servo Controlled Voltage Stabilisers, UPS and Transformers. With the experience of over 200,000 installations across a wide spectrum of industries in various operating environments environment since 1982, KRYKARD today enjoys an unparalleled Brand Equity in the field of Power Conditioning. AEL’s R&D efforts have resulted in registering three patents.

Instrumentation & Control:The KRYKARD range of Load Managers is designed to equip users to control and optimize their energy usage through in-house electrical energy management. The product range covers various types of portable & panel mounted Load Managers. Over 2500 industries using KRYKARD Load Managers are reaping the benefits of the increased efficiency and output derived from comprehensive in-house energy management measures.

Aluminium Foil Transformers (AFT):Efficient conversion of Electrical energy needs efficient transformers. The pressure on costs in an increasingly competitive industry leads to cutting of corners and consequently poor efficiencies in Power conversion. AEL developed a cost effective technology for manufacturing Aluminium Foil wound Transformers (AFT) in 1992. The AFT while being efficient in itself also provides an alternative to the transformer industry in its search for a fresh approach to manage pressure on costs with no compromises.After having successfully used AFT in over 200,000 Power Conditioners for over a decade and more recently having supplied over 50,000 AFT to various OEMs, AEL now offers AFT to all those seeking a cost effective and proven alternative for their own conventionally designed copper wire wound Transformers.

Products for use of alternate sources of energy:Recently in association with Centre for Fuel Cell Technology (CFCT), a unit of ARC International, Hyderabad, which is promoted as an Autonomous R&D Centre by the Dept of Science & Technology, Govt of India, AEL has sucessfully developed Inverters & DC - DC Converters for Fuel Cell applications. With these products, the Fuel Cell can now be extended to almost all applications where stable, continuous and clean power is required, making the user of the Fuel cell grid independent. This development puts AEL on the map for Alternate sources of Energy.

 Milestones:

Power Conditioners:

1982 - Commenced manufacture of KRYKARD Servo Controlled Voltage Stabiliser.

1986 -Successful launch of new KRYKARD Servo Stabiliser - digital voltmeter, built-in cutoff, ‘no-questions-asked’ guarantee.

1990 - Captured 40% market share in South India and became the market leader in this region.

1993 -Registered Patents for Aluminium foil Transformer, Reactance Controlled Stabiliser. 1995 – Introduced oil cooled Stabilisers for textile machines – increased market share to 60% in cotton yarn spinning sector in South India.

1999 -Expanded range up to 500 kVA; Gained preferred brand status in Telecom, Automobile, Printing, Packaging, Leather sectors.

2006- Commenced marketing of Aluminum Foil Transformers as OE to Power Conditioner & Machinery manufacturers.

2007 - Launched Krykard E-Green UPS, Servo Stabiliser range expanded up to 1000 kVA 3-phase.

Instrumentation & Control:

1989 - First to launch portable power, energy and demand analysers and market successfully across the country.

1993 - Launched the concept of LOAD MANAGER - microprocessor based panel meters with communication features - PLM series.

1994 - First PC based Energy Monitoring network using AlEnSoft - software developed in-house.

1998 - Launched ALM and Nanovip series portable analysers for measuring harmonics.

2001 -Launched ALEN 6200 series with modular design, powerful communication and high accuracy.

2004 - Launched Next-Gen Load Managers - ALM 30 series Portable Analysers - for high accuracy measurement even on non-linear loads - & PLM Cube Series Panel Meters - with expandable I/O ports, improved accuracy and safety features.

2005 - 06 - Launched ALM 10 & ALM 8, power quality analyser for 3-phase balanced & 1-phase loads.

2006 - Launched the new PLM Cube 300 series for load-end energy monitoring with RS-485 port & PLM Cube 400 series for feeder / substation monitoring with power, energy, demand and individual harmonics measurements.