Refex secures car production plant contracts

Chennai-based hydro fluorocarbons (HFC) company Refex Refrigerants Ltd has announced it is to begin supplying Tata Motors Ltd’s car production plant in Pune, India.

The Indian refrigerant gases refiller and distributor will set-up 2 25-tonne storage tanks at the car manufacturer’s plant with supplies expected to start early next year and the project a joint venture with Kaltech Engneering & Refrigeration Pte Ltd of Singapore.

Refex will lay pipelines from the storage tanks up to the point in the plant where air conditioners are fitted to the vehicles.

Anil Jain, managing director of Refex Refrigerants, said, $quot;The tanks are being built at an outlay of Rs80 lakh. Our gas will be used in the majority of the air conditioned cars rolled out of Tata Motor’s Pune plant.$quot;