This year Chennai based Numeric Power Systems Ltd. bagged all the awards emerging with top honors bagging the most prestigious SD's No l. Power Electronic Company of the year the largest manufacturer of Online UPS systems in India and the largest manufacturer of Offline/Inline manufacturer of the year award. All the three firsts related to UPS, went to Numeric. The company netted the total revenues of 286.87 crores, up from 219.03 crores over the previous years turnover. Hence registering a growth of nearly 31% in revenue term, this is phenomenal considering that over industry growth rate in revenue terms is just 18%. This performance is awesome considering that the company passed thru turbulent times JFM quarter when MGE decided to snap ties with Numeric and go alone. Still Numeric which entered into JV agreement with
Socomec, France was able to retain a major chunk of high value customers.

SD realizes that MGE snapping ties was planned move considering its now know acquisition of APC. As such both APC and MGE were considered for rankings this year.

APC, Emerson and Eaton’s who don’t disclose turnover figures terming it to be their company policy. For UPSs sales of these companies, SD estimates APC’s UPS sales to be around 370 crores, while Emerson is some where around 325 crores Emerson had won large number of major high end orders 80kVA Plus installations in the JFM quarter where Numeric perhaps could not focus that much. Another leading company Eaton’s Power Quality is estimated around 90 crores. These figure are just SD’s estimates through our own market sources and information coming out of Government agencies. Here it is worth mentioning that Govt.’s Right to Information policy has come good to evaluate the unknown to a certain extent.

Pune based DB Power Electronics Pvt. Ltd. has emerged as SD’s No. 2 Power Electronic Company in the country. They were also the SD’s No.2 Online UPS Manufacturer in the country. The company netted revenues to the tune of 110 crores up from 82 crores it netted in year 2004-05. A handsome growth of over 34%.

Thane based Aplab Ltd. improved their position by one rank clinching the coveted SD’s No.3 Power Electronic Equipment manufacturer in the country. The company netted revenues of Rs. 47.10 crores, up from 39.45 crores it registered in 2004-2005. A growth of over 19% over the previous year. Of the total revenues of 47.10 crores, 39.00 crores accounted for the sale of online UPS systems. This made them the SD’s 3rd largest Online UPS manufacturer in the country.

Close on the heels were Consul who are celebrating their silver jubilee year, consolidating their position steadily. They made their strong presence felt by clinching the SD’s No.4 Power Electronic Company of the year award. The company netted revenues to the tune of 45.00 crores up from 30.11 crores it had netted in 2004-2005. A staggering growth of nearly 50%. Out of the total revenue of 45.00 crores 37.50 crores came thru sales of Online UPS systems making it the SD’s No. 4 Online UPS manufacturer in the country.

Another strong performer in the last few years have been the Delhi based Uniline Energy Systems Pvt. Ltd. This year Uniline netted revenues to the tune of 39.63 crores making it the top in the SD’s top 5 Club. Uniline was awarded SD’s 5th largest Power Electronic Company of the year. An improvement of two ranks over the previous year. The company grew by whopping 41.54%. The company was also adjudged 3rd largest Offline UPS manufacturer of the year netting revenues of 13.63 crores thru Offline sales.

Another Delhi based company Tritronics (India) Pvt. Ltd. put up an impressive performance with a turn over of 38.45 crores there by getting itself to the sixth spot SD’s top 10 Power Electronic Company in the overall rankings chart. Out of the total business of 38.45 crores, the company netted a revenue of Rs. 36.73 crores selling 5456 numbers of online UPS Systems making it the SD’s 5th largest online UPS manufacturer in Country. The company proved to be a dark horse stunning many by attaining an unbelievable growth of over 81%.

Gandhi Nagar based Hi-Rel are the 7th largest power electronic company in the country. The company netted total revenues of Rs. 36.00 crores through Power Electronic Operations, an improvement of over 6 crores over the previous year.

There is a new entrant for place 8, BPE selling Ablerex brand of systems from Taiwan. The company with its aggressive marketing strategy was able to achieve a turnover of 33 crores, making it the SD’s 8th largest Power Electronic Company in the Country.

Steady growth and consistent performance has been the hall mark of Bangalore based Power-One Micro systems Pvt. Ltd. the company clinched the 9th spot in the SD’s top 10 club. They were adjudged the SD’s No. 9 Power Electronic Company in the Country. With increasing presence in the North, no wonders, if company ends up higher up in the top 10 rankings chart in the coming year.

Clinching the last spot in the SD’s Top 10 Club were the another south based company Techser Power Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Clining to the last spot in the top 10 club also being adjudged the SD’s No. 10 Power Company of the year. Though the company’s turnover of nearly 22.66 crores was lesser then that of WeP, it was its Online nature with near 100% customer satisfaction record which made it possible for the company to make it to the top 10 club.

Conclusion: The progressive trends were clearly visible among the top 10 companies, with margin squeezed as volume wise there is increase in sales of almost all the companies. The competition for ranking have increased with almost all the top companies participating in all 738 companies were reached, here it worth mentioning that nearly 200 manufacturer have either closed or switched their line of business owing to severe price pressure. It’s a volume game with small margins, only the bigger and better will survive.

EDITOR, SOFTDISK