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Milestones

A look at the milestones in over five decades of QRG journey to excellence, maps its emergence as a major industrial force in the country and abroad.

 

1958 :

 Commenced trading operations in Delhi.
1976 : Set up the first manufacturing plant for Rewireable Switches and Changeover Switches at Kirti Nagar, Delhi.
1979 : Set up a manufacturing plant for HBC Fuses at Badli, Delhi.
1980 : Started manufacturing high quality Energy Meters at Tilak Nagar, Delhi.
1983 : Acquired Towers and Transformers Ltd. and turned it into a profitably manufacturing Energy Meters Company in 1 year.
1987 : Started manufacturing MCBs at Badli, Delhi in Joint Venture with Geyer, Germany.
1990 : Set up a manufacturing plant at Sahibabad, UP for Changeover Switches.
1993 : Set up another manufacturing plant at Faridabad, Haryana for Control Gear Products.
1996 :

Acquired a manufacturing plant at Alwar, Rajasthan for Power Cables & Wires.

Entered into a Joint Venture with Electrium, UK for manufacturing Dorman Smith MCCBs and Crabtree Modular Plate Switches.
1997 :

Acquired Electric Control & Switchboards at NOIDA, UP for manufacturing customized packaged solutions.
1998 : Introduced high-end Ferraris Meters in Joint Venture with DZG, Germany.
2000 :
  1. Acquired controlling stake in Duke Arnics Electronics (P) Limited engaged in manufacturing of Electronic Meters-Single Phase, Three Phase, Multi Function, Tri Vectors.
  2. Acquired controlling interest in an industry major-Standard Electricals Ltd.
2001 : Acquired business of Havells Industries Ltd, MCCB of Crabtree India Limited and merged ECS Limited in the company to consolidate its area of core competence.
2002 :
  1. Standard Electrical Company becomes a 100% Subsidiary of the company.
  2. Attained the IEC certification for Industrial switchgear and CSA certification for all manufacturing plants.
2004 :
  1. Set up manufacturing plant at Baddi , HP for manufacturing of Domestic Switchgear.
  2. Set up a manufacturing plant for manufacturing of CFL at existing manufacturing plant in Faridabad, Haryana
  3. Set up a manufacturing plant for manufacturing of Ceiling Fans at Noida, UP
  4. Set-up our own marketing office in London through our wholly owned subsidiary company Havells U.K. Ltd.
  5. In December, 2004 placed 235 fully convertible debentures of Rs. 10 Lacs on M/s. Shine Ltd., Mauritius and the debenture will be converted in June, 2006
  6. Attained the CE certificate for CFLs
2005 :
  1. Set up manufacturing plant in Haridwar, Uttaranchal for manufacturing Fans.
  2. Awarded the KEMA certification by The Dutch Council for Accreditation, making QRG the only group to attain this certification.
  3. Set up of R&D Center in Noida H.O.
2006 :
  1. Crabtree India merged with Havells India.
  2. Added CFL production unit in Haridwar manufacturing plant.
  3. Expansion at Alwar manufacturing plant for increase of production capacity.
  4. Expansion at Baddi manufacturing plant and set-up of an Export Oriented Unit.
  5. First Company to get the ISI Certification for complete range of CFLs.
  6. Started mid-day meal program at Alwar, Rajasthan caters to 10,000 students from 77 schools.
2007 :
  1. Set-up of Capacitor manufacturing plant in Noida, UP with the capacity of
    6, 00,000 kVAr per month.
  2. Acquired the Lighting business of a Frankfurt based company "Sylvania", a global leader in lighting business and now the company's turnover crosses US$ 1 Billion.
  3. Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm and one of the largest investors in India, invested US $110 million in Havells India Ltd. Havells issued fresh shares to Warburg Pincus, representing approximately 11.2% of the fully diluted share capital of the company.
  4. QRG Group entered healthcare business by acquiring a majority stake in Central Hospital and Research Centre, Faridabad.
2008 :
  1. We are the first Indian CFL manufacturers to have adopted RoHS, European norms on Restriction of Hazardous Substances in CFLs.

 

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All our manufacturing plants are ISO:2000 certified. We are in the process of attaning ISO:14001 for all the plants. The first one to get this certification is TTL, the meter manufacturing plant.