- Business
- KEI Industries Limited KEI Industries Limited manufactures and markets a comprehensive range of electrical wires and cables, including extra-high voltage (EHV), medium voltage (MV), and low voltage (LV) power cables; control and instrumentation cables; specialty, single-core, and multi-core flexible cables; elastomeric/rubber, solar, fire survival/resistant, flat, EV charging, ESP, and medium voltage covered conductor cables; conflame green+ house wires; communication and thermocouple cables; submersible, marine, and offshore cables; winding wires; and stainless steel wires. The company, founded in 1968 as Krishna Electrical Industries and converted to a public limited entity in 1992, maintains headquarters in New Delhi, India, and operates five manufacturing facilities in Rajasthan and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, with 34 branch offices and 26 warehouses across India. KEI Industries serves retail, institutional, and export markets in over 60 countries, targeting sectors such as power utilities, infrastructure, oil and gas, petrochemicals, steel, marine, railways, renewables, and construction, while providing engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services for gas-insulated and air-insulated substations, overhead and underground power transmission and distribution systems, and railway electrification on a turnkey basis. In recent developments, the company acquires 74,000 square meters of land in Salarpur, Khairthal-Tijara district, Rajasthan, from Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation Limited for INR 93.58 crore in May 2025 to support future manufacturing expansion; invests in smart cables, fire-retardant solutions, and IoT-enabled monitoring systems; undertakes brownfield expansions at Chinchpada and Pathredi facilities; secures additional 18 acres in Salarpur, Rajasthan, and pursues land in Kheda, Nadiad, Gujarat, for a greenfield facility with planned capex of INR 888 crore; and plans INR 800 crore in capacity enhancements over four to five years, increasing output to 25,400 km for cables, 215,000 km for house wires, and 1,800 MT for stainless steel wires.