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Tindo Solar building.
New MD at BOC
LEADING GAS AND
engineering company BOC, has appointed Binod Patwari as man- aging director of BOC South Pacific.
Patwari joined BOC
after leading the Linde
Company’s ASEAN
business in Singapore
for four years where he
was responsible for overseeing a USD $1billion business across six countries.
His career with Linde spans more than 25 years working in senior business and finance leadership roles across Asia, United Kingdom and Australia.
In his new role, Binod will be focused on cus- tomer experience and driving growth and sus- tainability across the business.
“BOC is committed to leveraging Linde’s extensive global experience to progress the development of green hydrogen as a zero emis- sions fuel, with several projects already under- way across the region that will pave the way for decarbonisation of transport and industry,” Patwari said.
“I look forward to working with customers, industry and government to build on BOC’s lead- ership in the clean energy sector, as well as deliver initiatives for our business and custom- ers that reinforce our sustainability targets. Paramount to this will be maintaining a strong safety culture.”
Patwari will oversee BOC and Elgas, the larg- est supplier of LPG in Australia and New Zealand.
He holds a Master’s Degree in Finance and will be based at BOC’s regional headquarters in Sydney.
Solar city of excellence
BOWEN ALSO CONFIRMED Adelaide has been selected as the host city for the 2024 International Renewable Energy Conference (IREC).
The ACEPV is Tindo Solar’s $11 million solar panel manufacturing and innovation facility which has the capacity to produce 150 megawatts of Australia-made solar panels each year, using the latest global standard for solar cells, the M10.
Australia’s only solar panel manufacturer, Tindo Solar employs 50 people at the ACEPV which includes a design and engineering function and an education facility for visit- ing students and innovators in the solar energy industry.
Director of Tindo Solar, Glenn Morelli, said by 2050, 65 per cent of the electricity in the National Energy Market (NEM) will be from rooftop solar.
“We’ll be producing 70 gigawatts of power from solar panels – equivalent to the total cur- rent capacity of the NEM,” Morelli said.
“For Tindo, this factory is just the begin- ning, and we want to be the catalyst for a domestic solar supply chain that means every part of the panel can be manufactured locally, creating thousands of jobs and giv- ing every Aussie the opportunity to have locally-made panels producing power on their roofs."
Binod Patwari.
Giant factory to begin production 2025
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
will invest some $US222.5 million to establish a 88,000 square-metre factory in India for the production of room air conditioners and compressors.
Local production will start in October 2025 and initial annual capacity will total 300,000 room air conditioner outdoor units and, begin- ning in December 2025, 650,000 compressors.
Mitsubishi Electric’s Advance & Innovation 2025 strategy, introduced in November 2021, is targeting sales of air con- ditioning and refrigeration systems worth
RIGHT: The new 88,000 square- metre factory in India.
$US10.5 billion and operating profit of 12 per cent by the fiscal year ending March 2026.
Under the strategy, the company
is accelerating its launch of high- performance, energy-saving and environmentally friendly products in order to offer natural refrigerants that meet local needs, expand production for stable product supply and shorter lead times.
Mitsubishi Electric expects to invest $US1.5 billion in related facilities worldwide over a five-year period ending in March 2026.
The factory is located on a 210,000 square- meter site in Tamil Nadu in southern India.
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