Address: Marketing Division
16 Mahatma Gandhi Road
Pune-411 001
Telephone: 91-20-613-1801
Fax: 91-20-613-1747
Email: webmaster@walchand.com
Website: http://www.walchand.com
CEO and Managing Director: A.U. Rijhsinghani
Primary Function: Manufactures heavy industrial products such as sugar machinery, boilers, gears, and cement machinery. WIL also produces equipment for nuclear reactors and satellite launch vehicles.

Description and Activities:
Walchandnagar Industries Limited (WIL) was originally founded in the 1930s and now consists of three major factories in Pune, Satara (Maharashtra), and Attikola (Karnataka). Although these facilities primarily support the heavy industrial sector, WIL also manufacturers critical equipment for Indian nuclear power facilities. These products include calandrias, endshields, thermal shields, fuelling machines, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, and distillation columns. WIL has reportedly supplied these materials for the pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWR) in Narora, Kakrapar, and Kaiga. The company has also provided endshields for the Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS). Due to WIL's involvement with the Indian nuclear sector, it was placed under US export administration regulations (EAR) sanctions following the 1998 nuclear tests. These sanctions had been lifted, however, by November 2001.

In addition to the heavy industry and nuclear sectors, WIL is very active with aerospace defense projects. Production for this sector includes rocket motor casings, nozzles, and hardware for satellite launch vehicle programs.

Key Sources: "ISRO scouts for hardware vendors," Business Line (Chennai) Online Edition, 6 June 2002, <http://www.thehindubusinessline.com>; M.R. Srinivasan, "Our nuclear industry," The Hindu (Chennai), 14 April 2000, <http://hinduonnet.com>; Maj Muhammad Khalil Zikria, "The Paradoxes of Pokhran Strategy," Defence Journal; "Testimony of Gary Milhollin before the Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services," Wisconsin Project, 7 November 2001,
<http://www.wisconsinproject.org/pubs/testimonies/2001/11-7-01.htm>; "Supplement No. 4 to Part 744-Entity List," Federation of American Scientists (FAS), <www.fas.org/nuke/control/export/news/Nov98Entity.htm#INDIA>; Walchandnagar Industries Limited, <http://www.walchand.com>.

	Updated September 2003