Address (Corporate Office): Ramakrishna Buildings, 2 Dr. P.V. Cherian Crescent, Chennai 600 008, Tamil Nadu, India
Telephone: 044-8279533/8278187/8271899
Fax: 044-8255762
E-mail: kcp@vsnl.com
Managing Director: Dr. V.L. Dutt
Description: The KCP Limited is a private sector company with an annual turnover of nearly $32.06 million (FY 2000-2001).
Activities: The company's heavy engineering unit at Chennai manufactures:
- Heat-treatment furnaces used for heat treatment of low-alloy, high-strength steels, ultra high-strength steels, maraging steels, precipitation steels and heat-treatable aluminum alloys; used in missiles developed under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program.
- Parts of the airframe such as propellant and oxidizer tanks for the Prithvi ballistic missiles.
Key Sources:
The KCP Group, <http://www.kcp.co.in/Html/main.html>; Dr. N.C. Birla and B.S. Murthy, eds., "Airframes and Composites," Indian Defence Technology: Missile Systems (1998: DRDO, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi), pp. 58-59; Dr. N.C. Birla and B.S. Murthy, eds., "Fabrication and Manufacturing Technologies," pp. 89-90.
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