On 1st December 2014, INOXCVA inaugurated its new state of the art manufacturing facility along with clean room at its manufacturing plant at Kalol, Dist. Panchmahal. This manufacturing facility, which has been specially developed by INOXCVA, is dedicated to cater the requirements of manufacturing and supplying ITER-Cryolines and in addition, the facility will also support manufacturing of special cryogenic equipment for other scientific organizations of Department of Atomic Energy, ISRO etc.  Recently, INOXCVA bagged a very prestigious contract of national importance, from ITER India, for manufacturing of cryogenic lines for transporting the cold helium and cold nitrogen through vacuum jacketed transfer lines from/to the cryogenic plant system of ITER to the reactor building, where the ITER Tokamak Machine will be in operation.

The plant was inaugurated by high level officials from IPR-ITER and Mr. P.K. Jain, Chairman & Managing Director of INOX India Pvt Ltd. Other dignitaries present were Mr. Parag Kulkarni , CEO, Mr. D V Acharya, COO, Mr R L Panjwani, President- Cryoscientific Division, Prof. P. K. Kaw (Department of Science and Technology (DST) Professor), Prof. Dhiraj Bora (Director, Institute for Plasma Research (IPR)), Dr. S. K. Jain (Former Chairman & Managing Director (NPCIL) and NPCIL Chair), Prof. Abhijit Sen (S. Chandrasekhar Chair – IPR), Prof. Y. C. Saxena (Senior Professor (Retired), Consultant – IPR), Dr. Shishir Deshpande (Project Director, ITER-India), Dr. B. Sarkar (Project manager – Cryoline & Cryo-distribution system, ITER-India), Mr. Nitin Shah (Technical responsible Officer – Cryoline system), Mr. Hitensinh Vaghela (Technical Responsible Officer – Cryodistribution system), Mr. Ritendra Bhattacharya (Technical Responsible Officer – Control System).

It is a moment of pride for India, since this is the first ever contribution of cryogenic equipment on such scale by an Indian company to an international project.