The Suzlon story
The Suzlon story began in 1995 with just 20 people; and in a little over a decade has become an epic. A company of almost 14,000 people from 14 nationalities, operations across the America, Asia, Australia and Europe, fully integrated manufacturing units on three continents, sophisticated R&D capabilities and market leadership in Asia, ranked 5th in terms of with a global market share of 10.5 per cent.
Its global management headquarters is in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; its international marketing headquarters is in Aarhus, Denmark; and its India operations headquarters is in Pune.
The seeds of the idea that became Suzlon was sown by company chairman Tulsi Tanti's venture into the textile industry just as it began in its booming years.
Faced with soaring power costs, and with infrequent availability of power hitting his business hard, Tanti looked to wind energy as an alternative.
Suzlon began with a wind farm project in the Gujarat state of India in 1995 with a capacity of just 3 MW and has, at the end of 2007, supplied more than 6,000 MW the world over.
Suzlon is a truly homegrown Indian multinational.
Image: Suzlon S88, the 2 MW wind turbine. | Photograph, courtesy: Suzlon Energy
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