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- W.S. Industries (India) Limited manufactures and sells porcelain insulators for electrical high voltage transmission, substation, and distribution applications; offers suspension insulators including normal, anti-fog, aerodynamic, and super fog types for HV and UHVDC applications; provides longrod insulators for light, medium, and heavy pollution categories; produces solid core, hollow, and pin insulators; and supplies re-distributed products such as transmission line hardware, galvanized distribution materials including cross-arms, spindles, earth rods, dropout fuses, fiber glass stay insulators, and grading rings for solidcore insulators. The company also undertakes turnkey projects encompassing design, supply, installation, testing, and commissioning of substations, transmission lines up to 220 kV, and network quality regulation projects, with participation in rural electrification initiatives under India's "Power for All" scheme. Incorporated in 1961 and headquartered in Chennai, India, W.S. Industries operates manufacturing facilities in Chennai and Visakhapatnam with a combined capacity of 28,000 CMT per annum, serving utilities, global OEMs, and EPC companies in approximately 45 countries.
In recent developments, the company's wholly owned subsidiary WSI-P&C Verticals Private Limited entered a binding agreement on March 11, 2025, with Arni Associates; acquired land worth Rs. 54.65 crores from Kotak Alternate Asset Managers Limited to develop an integrated logistics park and light engineering facility; and secured an order valued at Rs. 86.26 crores from CMK Projects Private Limited on December 31, 2024, for additional and balance works at the Integrated Bus Terminal and Multi-Utility Facility Centre in Panjappur, Tiruchirappalli City Corporation, Tamil Nadu. W.S. Industries has partnered with Prestige Group in a joint venture and plans a modern logistics park on a 254-acre site at Sunguvar Chathram, Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu, alongside an integrated township in the Chennai industrial corridor. The company underwent a management change in June 2022 with a new promoter group and updated its CIN to L42909TN1961PLC004568 effective October 3, 2025, reflecting a strategic shift toward infrastructure development and EPC projects.