Italy-based Legnano Teknoelectric Company (LTC), a leading processor of electrical steel and manufacturer of magnetic cores for transformers, has informed that it has decided to open its first manufacturing plant in the Middle East in the Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza).
 
The manufacturing plant, built on an arena of 27,500 square metres, will process grain-oriented electrical steel, from coils right up to fully built magnetic cores for distribution and electrical power transformers. 
 
The sources said that the facility will equipped with an 80 metric tonnes lifting capacity.

The new facility, is slated to open by fiscal 2012, and will give employ state of the art technology to deliver products in just a few days to markets in Asia and the Middle East that are currently three or four weeks away by sea.