India's L&T signs deal with GE

MUMBAI, May 16 (UPI) -- India's Larsen and Toubro signed a deal with U.S.-based GE Energy.

The nation's largest engineering and construction firm announced it entered into a strategic partnership agreement with GE Energy that will focus on the country's power generation market.

According to the agreement, GE Energy will provide its power plant main control system products to L&T, while L&T will leverage its strengths in engineering and project execution as well as experience in the Indian market to deliver comprehensive power plant automation solutions to customers, the Business Standard in India reported.

"L&T was looking to provide reliable control systems offering for the rapidly developing power generation sector in order to complete its electrical and automation suite," said L&T's President-Operations and Member of the Board R.N. Mukhija.

The agreement was signed by GE Energy India's Region Executive J. Kishore and L&T's Chief Executive J.P. Singh, according to a statement issued by L&T.