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IIICorp to sponsor the 50th FELABAN Annual Assembly in Buenos Aires

felaban IIICorp is a sponsor of the 50th FELABAN Annual Assembly, taking place in Buenos Aires November 5-8. FELABAN is the premier international LATAM banking event, and we are very much looking forward to introducing our product to the LATAM banking community. If you or your colleagues are attending the conference, please stop by Table 14 in the exhibitor hall to meet us and learn more.

Feel free to email Chris Salgado, our Head of Sales and Product Development for Trade Finance, at chris.salgado@iiicorp.com to arrange individual meetings or introductions. We See you in Argentina! show less

AVR Vidyuth looking for foreign investors for developing 225MW gas-based power plant

AVR Vidyuth Private Limited is planning to start discussions with foreign investors to raise funds for developing a 225MW gas-based power plant at Adavipolam in Yanam district of Puducherry, said Vishnu Vardhan Rao, MD, AVR Vidyut. The company is also looking for a foreign EPC contractor to invest in the project, he added.

Rao said that the proposed project has been approved by the government of Puducherry. Land required for the project has also been procured. Once a foreign investor and an EPC contractor is finalized, AVR Vidyuth will approach the government of Puducherry for allocation of gas required for the project, he added.

The total cost of developing 1MW of gas-based power will be about USD 750,000 (Rs. 5 crore), said Ashok Kumar, Administrator, AVR Vidyuth. Based on this metric, the total project investment (TPI) of the 225MW power unit will be around USD 168.7m (Rs. 1125.8 crore).

Project equipment would typically include air compressors, gas turbines, steam generators, combustion chambers, condensers, fuel burners, jet pipes and propelling nozzles, fuel valves, and synchronous generators, among other equipment.

To find out more about this and other opportunities, contact us at https://www.iiicorp.com/

Exploring PE Investing in Niche Manufacturing & Industrial Services Companies with Capital Roundtable

Middle market industrial-focused private equity (PE) firms are increasingly turning to the world’s fastest growing economies to boost portfolio company returns at a time of sluggish economic growth in the US.

Growing a portfolio company’s international footprint is key to increasing returns today, according to participants in a recent Capital Roundtable conference entitled Private Equity Investing in Niche Manufacturing & Industrial Services Companies: Strategies for Enabling Profitability in a No-Growth Environment. Opportunistic international expansions into complex markets such as China, India and Brazil can distinguish a company from its competitors, in effect boosting its value to strategic buyers.

Bolt-on acquisitions of production facilities, suppliers, distributors or other assets appear to be the favored approach of PE companies keen to push portfolio firms into new markets. That’s because it’s challenging to facilitate organic growth via greenfield expansion projects in a roughly two to five year timeframe. Also, other forms of international expansion, such as joint ventures, frequently complicate both PE firms’ ability to control the day-to-day operation of portfolio company’s business and the process of exiting an investment.

Expanding via M&A does not come without challenges. Firms may find it difficult to navigate complex accounting, regulatory and compliance rules associated with new markets, according to attendees at the Capital Roundtable event. Also, they have difficulty identifying managerial talent in foreign countries, despite the emergence of new sources of talent in recent years.

Growing a portfolio company’s footprint beyond the US’ borders can be worthwhile, particularly for PE firms with the time facilitate long-term growth. But the expansion process is not without its pitfalls.

On Thursday 10 November, IIICORP and The Capital Roundtable will be hosting a conference entitled “Best Practices for PE Portfolio Companies to do Business Globally”.

Visit our newly-released website for more information on IIICorp’s deal origination platform. For more information on a trial, visit https://www.iiicorp.com/ContactUs

Upcoming ICorp Events and Conferences

The ICorp team have been on the road recently, from Singapore, to Miami, to Rome, to Philadelphia. Our founder and CEO, Charlie Welsh, had the opportunity to speak as a panelist at the Association of Trade & Forfaiting in the Americas annual gathering (pictured below). We also recently attended the Special Libraries Association Conference and TXF Conference at the Four Seasons Rome. These have provided valuable forums for sharing insight with our peers and colleagues. We’re proud to have the opportunity to showcase our product, the world’s first foreign industrial equipment supplier funding origination platform.

ICorp will be attending and exhibiting at several conferences, expos and events in the coming weeks, so please be sure to visit our blog, homepage and Linkedin page for regular updates.

In the next month, find us at:

June 23-26 American Library Association Conference – Orlando, Florida

July 13-15 Business Librarians Association Conference – London, UK

July 16-19 American Association of Law Libraries Annual Conference – Chicago, Illinois

Are you attending or exhibiting at any of these? Be sure to connect with us on Linkedin or send us your details via our webform.

IIICorp sponsors ABLD-APBSLG-EBSLG Conference in Singapore

IIICorp is a premium business intelligence product for industrial manufacturers, technology providers and trade finance, but it is also an exceptional resource for academic research. Our Global Sales Director, Greg Greenberg (pictured) is representing IIICorp at the Conference of members of ABLD (Academic Business Library Directors), APBSLG (Asia Pacific Business School Librarians’ Group) and EBSLG (European Business Schools Librarians’ Group) in Singapore. IIICorp is proud to sponsor this event, taking place over the next two days.

IIICorp Global Sales Director Greg Greenberg, with representatives from Oxford Said Business School and INSEAD Asia

To successfully emulate winning strategies, students in the most competitive business programs need access to clear, actionable intelligence before it becomes public knowledge. By using IIICorp as an academic research tool, students are able to fill the gap left by traditional databases, enabling them to make real business decisions in real time.

We have received overwhelmingly positive feedback from our customers already using IIICorp for academic purposes, whose students have access to our proprietary content, contact list, analytics and global team of industry experts.

To learn more about IIICorp and request a trial for your academic institution, visit our website.

Exclusive to IIICorp: Japanese firm IBIDEN Co Ltd shows interest in BHEL’s emissions contract

ibiden Tokyo-based IBIDEN Co Ltd is among several companies, including Chinese firms, that have submitted their expressions of interest (EOI) to state-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) for a proposal to design and engineer the latter’s emission control systems for power plants and its integration with the boilers on a project-to-project basis. A BHEL official also told IIICORP that the EOI is applicable to all BHEL power plants across the country. According to its website, the power major has 20,000 MW installed capacity and going by IIICORP metrics, the contract could be worth upwards of USD 400m. The EOI comes in the wake of recent emission norms laid down by the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC).

IBIDEN Porzellanfabrik Frauenthal GmbH, a subsidiary firm majority owned by IBIDEN Co Ltd, manufactures the CERAM brand of catalyst and industrial honeycombs at its facility in Frauental, Austria. CERAM has developed into a global supplier of catalysts and industrial ceramics and currently has customers in more than 40 countries with over 400 employees. In the course of its international expansion, the company has set up subsidiaries in the United States and South Korea. The introduction of progressive environmental legislation around the world is a key driver of the CERAM´s business activities, says its website. The company’s environmental management system ensures responsible use of natural resources and systematically reduce its wastewater, solid waste streams, and atmospheric emissions.

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Featured Story of the Week: SGCC bid for Abengoa’s Brazilian assets faces delays arising from deal’s complex, politically-sensitive nature

State Grid Corporation of China’s (SGCC) planned purchase of Abengoa SA’s Brazilian power transmission operations is facing ongoing delays as a result of the high level of complexity it has encountered in the asset evaluation process. That’s according to Xiao Bin (肖斌), an official at theState Grid Brazil Holding SA (国家电网巴西控股公司), the local subsidiary of SGCC, who made reference to the highly diverse nature of the assets in question and their complicated financial position.

“The acquisition is still in talks and there is no certain time for how long it will take,” Xiao said. He added that a formal proposal has yet to be made.

SGCC’s confusion is shared by industry analysts who have also had difficulty estimating the value of Abengoa’s Brazilian assets, which comprises facilities that are operational and reneue-generating as well as ones that are being developed. In the latter category, Abengoa has about 6,000km of transmission lines under construction that will require the purchaser to take on billions of dollars of future investments.

The Brazilian government has indicated that it would expect a large and well-capitalized entity like SGCC to acquire all of Abengoa’s Brazilian assets as a package.

This news service previously reported, citing a SGCC source, that this transaction was a politically sensitive one and that it should not be viewed as a simple sale and purchase agreement between two companies. The state-owned Chinese company, which has invested USD 2.58bn (CNY 16.83bn) in Brazil’s power transmission sector since 2010, believes that the expertise it has developed via the construction of China’s vast ultra-high-voltage projects over the past two years gave it a competitive advantage over rival bidders.

Financially-distressed Abengoa, which filed for bankruptcy protection in November 2015, is Brazil’s largest non-state owned power transmission operator. Its Brazilian operations have total net debts of USD 825m (CNY 5.4bn), of which more than USD 218m (CNY ) are owed to local equipment suppliers in the country, according to the electricity industry association Abinee.

For similar stories and access to early-stage actionable intelligence on projects happening in the energy, water and waste, and environmental sectors in emerging markets, contact us at https://www.iiicorp.com/ContactUs/?ContactUs

Increased optimism on Chinese infrastructure investment

It is no secret that a period of volatility in China’s stock market this year gave many cause for concern. Since then, a growing debate about the health of the country’s economy has on occasion omitted encouraging signs of stability. In particular, critical clean power, environmental and water infrastructure projects have largely proceeded unhindered thanks to a central government stimulus effort that is beginning again to pick up steam.

Balu Balakrishnan, CEO and Director of Power Integrations, Inc recently offered an optimistic take on the promise of a renewed increase in China’s infrastructure spending after he was asked by an analyst about the government’s appetite for spending:

Evan Wang – Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. “I was wondering if you can give us some comparison against what your expectation earlier in the year that the Chinese Government might be resuming its infrastructure spending as part of the stimulus program and how is that looking now for 2016?”

Balu Balakrishnan – President, Chief Executive Officer & Director “It is actually looking very good. They have resumed investment in infrastructure.There are number of new high-voltage DC transition lines being installed in China. In addition to that, they are converting their public transportation, which is buses, into electric buses starting from Beijing and Shanghai where they have the most pollution, and we have actually a significant portion of that business that we have won on and we expect that to contribute to our growth this year and next year.”

For access to our extensive database of intelligence on Chinese project opportunities, contact us for a trial.

IIICorp Speaks with Indian Minister of Power

IIICorp had the opportunity to speak with Piyush Goyal, Minister of Power at last night’s Mumbai Press Club RedInk Media Awards at Nariman Point, Mumbai.

Minister Goyal has set ambitious targets, aiming to reduce carbon emissions by 30-35 percent. He provided encouraging feedback on IIICorp, particularly regarding our potential role in aiding India in meeting its emissions reduction and energy efficiency goals.

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At the ceremony, the minister thanked the media for bringing awareness to the fact that over 400 remote villages in India have become uninhabitable due to lack of power. The government is currently leading aggressive efforts to reestablish power in these rural areas. Measures to ensure transparency throughout this process have been implemented, engaging over 500 qualified engineers located throughout the country. Real-time data, available to the public through a mobile app and web dashboard called GARV, will be uploaded as villages become electrified.

(For more information on GARV, visit http://garv.gov.in/dashboard)