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What is the full form of KEI?

By Anushree Goswami Last updated : April 20, 2024

KEI is an abbreviation of Krishna Electricals Industries Limited. It is a public limited company that is categorized as a Non-governmental Company and the registration of this company is with the Registrar of Companies, Gwalior.

It is the largest company in the industry of wires and cables. It produces high and low tension cables (EHT, HT, and LT), control and instrumentation cables, house wires, stainless steel wires, etc.

In the year 2014-15, KEI achieved Superbrand standing. Its head office is situated in New Delhi and it has more than 30 branch offices all over the country. As of October 2017, the current Chairman & Managing Director of KEI is Anil Gupta.

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KEI Brief History

• In 1968, KEI was founded as a joint venture company with Shri. BL Gupta, Shri D.N Gupta, and Shri. S.S Agarwal as the partners. At the time of establishment, it was largely occupied in the manufacturing of house wiring rubber cables.
• In 1985, it began manufacturing control, instrumentation and thermocouple cables.
• In December 1992, it turned out to be a public limited company.
• In 1993, it began manufacturing PVC/XLPE Power cables up to 3.3 kV.
• In 1994, it came into Stainless Steel drawings with the preliminary plant to branch out its business activities.
• In 1995, it introduced an IPO.
• In 1966, it founded an SSW plant at Bhiwadi.
• 1n 1997, it established one more plant at Bhiwadi to manufacture LT PVC/XLPE cables.
• In 2002, it established the JFTC Plant at Silvassa.
• In 2005, it advanced and improved the JFTC Plant and achieved order worth more than Rs 40 crores from a variety of clients for the supply and delivery of cables.
• In 2007, it has installed its new plant for the production of HT and LT power cables at Chopanki near Bhiwadi.
• In 2008, it began commercial production at this plant.
• In 2011, it came into Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) sector by achieving order worth Rs 145 crore in the State of Madhya Pradesh.
• In 2012, KEI offered advanced quality mining cables for wide-ranging industrial requirements.
• In 2013-14, it opened new offices in Singapore, Nigeria, and Kazakhstan.
• In 2016, KEI expanded its Technical Partnership and Association Agreement with M/s Brugg Kabel AG, Switzerland to produce Extra High Voltage (EHV) cables above 220 kV and up to 400kV.