What is the current membership of ITMA?
There are about 200 members in the ITMA fraternity comprising big, medium and small players in the transformer industry covering the length and breadth of the country. The cross-section of ITMA membership has companies like Bhel, Crompton, ABB, Areva T&D, Bharat Bijlee and Emco, to name a few. What are the main issues facing Indian transformer manufacturers and how is ITMA taking them up with the government? The main challenge facing Indian transformer manufacturers is non-availability of CRGO (cold rolled grain oriented or electrical silicon steel). This has to be totally imported as it is not produced in India. The second problem is the import of second (defective) CRGO by unscrupulous suppliers, being freely allowed by Government of India, is causing lot of losses in the distribution system. The third problem is inadequate testing facilities for distribution and power transformers of EHV/UHV class units in the country. As far as the import of defective CRGO is concerned, ITMA had be
