Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Asian Paints Limited (APL) to provide engineering services for a greenfield paint plant in India.
Under the terms of the contract, Jacobs is providing detailed engineering and construction supervision services for the plant. The contract duration is 37 months.
When complete, the new paint plant is expected to produce 300,000 kiloliters per annum of decorative paints. The plant is a key component of APL’s expansion program in India.
APL is India’s largest and Asia’s third largest paints company, with 26 manufacturing plants in operation in India and around the world.