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1profile
TRF Limited is part of the TATA Group of companies Indias leading business group in the private sector.The combined competencies of three companies, the erstwhile Tata Robins Fraser (established in 1962), Tata Material Handling Systems (established in 1978), and Tata Techno dyne (established in 1996), helped create TRF. The company is regarded as one of the most comprehensive sources of engineering equipment, systems and services. It manufactures bulk material handling and processing equipment, bulk material handling systems, coke oven equipment, coal dust injection systems for blast furnaces, coal beneficiation systems, and port and yard equipment. EPC and EPCM services including mini blast furnace technology are also provided. The company caters to diverse industries including power, metallurgy, chemical, mining and cement. As Indias largest private sector employer, the group today has a family of about 2, 25,000 employees. The TATA group is have been pioneer in India in areas like Integrated steel plant Power utility I.T. Software venture Luxury hotel chain Indigenous passenger car Chemical and salt work works and so on.

TRF, incorporated in 1962, on its part, has been the leader in engineering, manufacture, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of bulk material handling equipment and system in India. Today TRF, with its expertise and extensive experience, provides a wide range of quality equipment, system and service for material, sizing and dressing of bulk material. With the amalgamation of two TATA companies TATA Material Handling System Limited in April 1999, TRF now offers the most comprehensive range of port, yard and bulk material

handling equipment and allied service and system .it is also carries out project implementation on EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) basic or provides EPC services for setting up of small and medium size plants.
The company operated through the following four divisions: Bulk material handling equipment division. Bulk material handling system division. Port and York equipment.

2.2VISION AND MISSION

TRF Ltd new vision was ceremoniously launched by its Chairman, Jamshed J Irani, along with Managing Director, Mr. Sudhir Deoras and President of Tata Robins Fraser Labour Union, Mr. Rakeshwar Pandey in the presence of its employees and external stakeholders in a function held on April 5, 2008...

Dr Jamshed J Irani, Chairman, TRF Ltd said that while it is important to set a Vision, it was even more important to achieve them within a given time frame as vision without action was just a dream. He emphasized that the goals set in Vision-2013 must be achieved by the year 2013, if not earlier.

Mr. Sudhir Deoras, Managing Director, TRF Ltd said that he was confident that TRF Ltd would achieve the goals laid in Vision 2013. The Company is gradually raising the bar of its performance and this indicated it had the potential to improve its performance. However, he said that the Company must now work with a sense of urgency and execute its projects and orders with the customers interest in mind.

The President of Tata Robins Fraser Lab our Union, Mr. Rakeshwar Pandey, said that he believed that the employees of TRF Ltd had the potential to achieve the goals laid in Vision-

2013. This he said had been demonstrated by them and the new vision would facilitate them to enhance their focus on and help to achieve their targets on sustainable basis. We will grow five times in five years and become a Rs. 2500 crore company by 2013, by enhancing focus on material handling business and entering new businesses as necessary. We will expand our business on a sustainable basis by building a team that is passionate about serving all its stakeholders and is committed to making Trust, Respect and Fellowship, a Way of life. To be an international leader in material handling equipment, processes and systems.

2.3JOINT VENTURES
TRF forms joint venture with Tata Capital and Jasper Industries

TRF has entered into a shareholders agreement along with Tata Capital and Jasper Industries to form a joint venture viz, Adithya Automotive Applications.

Adithya Automotive Applications is a private limited company constituted with one of the main objects of engaging in the business of automotive applications to provide end solutions through fabrications and machining for vehicles to be used as tippers, load bodies, trailers, refrigerated bodies, etc.

The shareholding pattern of the joint venture of Adithya Automotive Applications would be as follows:

Sr.no

Name of the company

Shareholding per cent

1 2 3

TRF Jasper Industries Tata Capital

51 per cent 29 per cent 20 per cent

2.4Listing on Stock Exchanges

The Companys shares are listed on - (1) Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd. (BSE); (2) National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. (NSE); (3) Calcutta Stock Exchange Ltd. (CSE). The Company has paid the annual listing fees to all the Stock Exchanges for the financial year 2010-11.

Stock Code: 505854 (BSE), TRF (NSE) &10030045 (CSE)

Market Information: Performance of Companys Share Price

2.5Major customer of trf

Trf limited being a sister concer of TATA Enterprises, thus TATA STEEl limited and TATA power comprises one of the major customer group. Beside it, there are many other customer group in the market such as: TATA STEEL BHEL BHUSANSTEEL LIMITED ACC STSTE ELECTRICTY BOARD NTPC NMDC STEEL AUTHORITY OF INDIA LIMITED (SALE) KOLKATA PORT TRUST JINDAL STEEL LIMITED

2.6Division wise product profile

TRF manufactures and supplies bulk material handling, loading and un-loading; bulk material processing, i.e., screening and crushing; and stacking, reclaiming and blending of bulk materials. It also manufactures coke oven equipment (specially stamping-charging-pushing equipment), coal dust injection systems for blast furnaces and coal beneficiation systems. The TMHS range includes: stockyard equipment, level luffing cranes, grab un loaders, ship loaders, gantry cranes, container cranes and special purpose cranes. This is all custom-engineered for installation and use at ports, harbors, and metallurgical and other processes industries.

The product / equipment of the division comprise-

1) Conveyor component , idlers ,pulleys and accessories

2) Crushers - jaw crushers, impactors, roll crushers, ring granulators, ball mills, and hammer mills.

3) Screening equipment mechanical vibrating screen, scalpers, slurry screens, foundry shakeouts.

4) Feeders- vibrating feeders, apron feeders, plough feeders, rotary table feeders.

5) Wagon tippler & side arm charger.

6) Wagon load

7) Shuttle conveyors

8) Belt & chain elevator

(1) Conveyor components:

Conveyor may be best described as equipment for conveying a definable shape such as cartoon, pallet or casting. The load is usually placed directly on the conveying surface is very important. Conveyor pulleys: the pulleys, which support and direct and control its tension. Conveyor idlers: the idlers which form the support for the troughed carrying strand of the best and the flats return stand. TRF's range of crushers includes jaw crushers, impactors, ring granulators, roll crushers, cone crushers and rotary breakers.

(2) Crushers:
A crusher is a machine designed to reduce large rocks into smaller rocks, gravel, or rock dust. Crushers may be used to reduce the size, or change the form, of waste materials so they can be more easily disposed of or recycled, or to reduce the size of a solid mix of raw materials (as in rock ore), so that pieces of different composition can be differentiated. Crushing is the process of transferring a force amplified by mechanical advantage through a material made of molecules that bond together more strongly, and resist deformation more, than those in the material being crushed do. Crushing devices hold material between two parallel or tangent solid surfaces, and apply sufficient force to bring the surfaces together to generate enough energy within the material being crushed so that its molecules separate from (fracturing), or change align ment in relation to (deformation), each other. The earliest crushers were hand-held stones, where the weight of the stone provided a boost to muscle power, used against a stone anvil. Querns and mortars are types of these crushing devices.

Features

Crushing ratio can be set at an extremely large value: normally at 20 and maximum up to 40 A high crushing efficiency reduces the power consumption Selective crushing can be made with ease The shape of crushed material will increasingly become cubic

(3) SCREENING EQUIPMENT:

Based on the knowledge that no two screening applications are identical, TRF Ltd offers to its customers screening solutions and not just screens. The company uses its vista of experience and technology for selecting, engineering and manufacturing the screens. Each new screen is then optimised for its motion, throw, speed and weight characteristics resulting in greater value to the customer. Moreover, the screens are customised to face the weather calamities, through one of the basic vibratory motions circular, elliptical or linear. This, of course depends upon the application.

(4) Feeders:

TRF Limited manufactures Rotary Plough Feeders that provide a convenient means of extracting raw materials from longitudinal slot bunkers and delivering it to a reclaim belt conveyor running underneath. A rotary plough feeder is a heavy-duty machine used to reclaim stored bulk materials. The feeder is designed to operate in a tunnel beneath a storage pile. A slot opening, running along the length of the tunnel, allows the stored material to flow on to a protruding reclaim shelf. The stored material is prevented from flowing over the edge of the reclaim shelf by designing the shelf to intercept the angle of repose. The plough feeder consists of a paddle wheel, called rotor, having six curved arms revolving on a vertical axis that sweep the stored material from the shelf on to a belt conveyor. The plough mechanism is transported onto a heavy duty self propelled wheeled frame, called carriage that travels on rails mounted either on a canopy of the bunker or on the beams supported on the floor of the tunnel.

The plough feeder can be continuously traversed or positioned at any point along the reclaim shelf for maximum flexibility. The speed of the rotor is adjustable so that the reclaim capacity can be controlled to meet the capacity requirement. The self propelled carriage enables the rotary plough feeder to reclaim materials every along the entire length of the bunker. The output capacity of the rotary plough feeder is controlled by varying the rotor speed. This can be accomplished by variable speed drives to meet any specific requirement. Variable speed drive

can be electro mechanical like eddy current drive, frequency controller or hydraulic drive. The machine can have local and remote control arrangement or both for operation. Types of rotary plough feeder: A) Single plough with single reclaim shelf where low capacities are required, carriage moves on rails supported on the tunnel floor, and B) Single plough with double reclaim shelves where high capacities are required, carriage moves on rails supported on the tunnel floor.

They are frequently used as feeders located material handling. Its application is found in almost all sectors like power, steel, cement plant, etc. The apron feeder consists of one or more endless chains to which overlapping pans are attached to form a continuous moving bed under crushers and hoppers. Apron feeders can be installed in horizontal and inclined condition depending on the feeding zone of system layout. The apron feeders are broadly classified as Apron Feeders is mechanical equipment widely used in bulk particularly suited for conveying heavy duty raw materials such as coal, coke, ore, slag, rock, stone, gravel, clay, etc.

Extra heavy duty apron feeder with crawler chain-sprocket assembly Extra heavy duty apron feeder with link-chain assembly Heavy duty apron feeder with link-chain assembly

Features

Can be installed below wagon tippler hopper, stockpile and primary or secondary crushers Capacity and speed adjustment features Either hydraulic drive or electromechanical drive arrangement Horizontal as well as inclined installation Sealed bearings for feed rollers and returned rollers to avoid frequent lubrication Safety device: Mechanical / Electrical

(5) Wagon tippler& side arm charger.

The state-of-the-art Wagon Tipplers manufactured by TRF are in accordance with the Indian standards and the prescribed norms lay down by the statutory bodies. The wagon tippler is designed to unload materials like coal, coke, iron ore, etc., from the open type railway wagons, viz; Box/Box N HA/Box N MKD-II /OZ/O, etc. It is also capable of performing the function of weighing the gross and tare weight of wagons by incorporating an integral weighbridge. TRF wagon tipplers are of sturdy construction and require negligible maintenance. The tippler is of latest design having main sectors carried on shafts supported on turning bearings. The wagon is clamped, automatically on the table during tippling and no hand adjustments are necessary. A wide range of wagons can be accommodated and the clamping arrangements are such that it is firmly held without damage or undue pressure on any part of the wagon. The machine is capable of automatically clamping (by hydraulic clamping) and tipping specified 8-wheeler bogie type broad gauge open wagons. The tippler empties wagons above rail level and inverts them through a maximum angle of 160 degrees so as to discharge the material into the hopper. The tippler is a positive gear operated hydraulic driven machine of massive and robust construction and designed for continuous and arduous duty. It is counter balanced at each stage of its operation. It carries the wagon with pin-jointed connections between the components, thus giving an articulated construction. The sector gear is mounted on the periphery of end rings and driven by pinion mounted on line shaft powered by gearbox and motor, etc. Special features: failsafe EM brake, hydraulic clamping system, maintenance free operation, and power pack)/electro-mechanical, side/end ring with gear teeth, tippler platform, brakes, counterweights, hydraulic clamping, main bearing and main shaft.

(6) Wagon loader:

Frigate offers a sophisticated range of wagon loading machines for automatic loading of filled bags in closed wagons. These machines for allow automatic loading and stacking of bags and are made available in capacities up to 2400 bags/hr and are suitable for BCH, BCX & BCN (broad guage) railway wagons. These machines also allow single well as double side loading. The common design principle of this equipment is the multi-section construction of the machine and the connection of the various sections via heavy-duty slewing gears. The material receiving section (which is brought into the railcar), as well as the

Material discharge end remaining outside of the car are both adjustable in height and both pivot on a circular path and order to carry out various operation, these machines are equipped with self contained drives called drum motor. Particular attention is paid to machine safety devices and to the technical measures required for locking the various mobile components into position during long distance transport.

(7) Shuttle conveyors:

Load-out stamping scrap with even distribution

A transversing, bidirectional steel belt conveyor is designed for final load-out of stamping scrap into large trailers or railcars. Continuous, back and forth, operation provides for even distribution into larger scrap containers where swivel chute systems would be inadequate. Features

Automatic level sensors provide visual alert when full Access platforms with safety railings are standard, meeting OSHA requirements Shuttle conveyors utilized heavy-duty PRAB steel belting Frames are supported on hardened rail track and steel wheels

(8) Belt& chain elevator:

Belt Conveyors

The company design and manufacture a broad line of belt conveyors that work in a variety of applications. These conveyors are primarily material handling equipment fabricated using high grade raw material and latest technology so that it can offer highly efficient and reliable range of these belt conveyors to their respected clients. Features

Long working life Require less maintenance Easy operation High functionality Simple in construction

Chain Elevators The company provides a comprehensive range of chain elevators, manufactured using quality raw material and cutting-edge technology. These heavy chain elevators are highly efficient and are available in varied sizes and can be customized as per the specifications laid down by the clients. Low power consumption, durability, rugged construction, corrosion resistance and long service life are some of the features of the chain conveyors. These are also specially designed using superior quality raw material and cater to the needs of various industries. Features

Highly durable Low cost Maintenance free Robust construction

3.1RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1.1Research Design: Research design is the conceptual structure within which research would be conducted.

3.1.2Data Sources The research involved gathering Secondary data. Lot of data has been pooled from trf ltd to use in the study. 1. Primary Data- Primary data is known as the data collected for the first time through field survey. Such data are collected with specific set of objectives to assess the current

status of any variable studied. Primary data always reveal the cross section picture of anything studied. 2. Secondary Data- Secondary data refers to the information or facts already collected and published or unpublished. Such data are collected with the objective of understanding the past status of any variable. Or the data collected and reported by some source is accessed and used for the objective of a study.