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Tower Testing

KEC has 4 multi-locational Tower Testing stations, capable of testing towers of upto 1200 kV Transmission Line. These testing stations serve the objective of satisfying customers about design parameters of tower by subjecting Proto-Towers to various test load conditions. KEC has the world’s largest Tower Testing Station at Butibori, Nagpur (Maharashtra, India). Apart from this, the company has 3 more Tower Testing facilities located at Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh, India), Jaipur (Rajasthan, India) and Brazil (South America). The Brazil tower testing station is the largest in the Americas. All the tower testing stations are strategically located near to the manufacturing facilities. KEC has the distinction of being the only transmission tower company in the world to have 4 tower testing stations.

KEC has capability to test all types of Lattices Towers, Mono Poles, Tubular structure & Guyed towers for voltage upto 1200 kV. KEC can provide complete testing solutions to any type of transmission line requirements.

Tower Testing Facilities

Butibori, Nagpur
(Maharashtra, India)
Betim (Brazil)

Snapshot

INDIA AMERICAS(SAE)
Particulars Butibori,
Nagpur (Maharashtra)
Jaipur
(Rajasthan)
Jabalpur
(Madhya Pradesh)
Betim(Brazil)
Testing Capacity 1200 kV 400 kV 800 kV 765 kV
Base Configuration Square/Rectangular/
Monopoles/Guyed Towers
Square Rectangular upto 18m Square upto 24m Square,26m
Height of Mast Transverse longitudinal 90m,90m 45m,48m 50m,58m 75m,75m
Maximum compression/uplift per leg 1250 M/T 250 M/T 450 M/T 700/400 M/T
Load Application Electrical Winches with
Variable Frequency Drives and SCADA
Electrical Winches Electrical Winches Mechanical Winches