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1956
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Founded
as Vijay Industries for the manufacture of underground petroleum
storage tanks.
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| 1960: |
Revamping
work of the furnace at Standard-Vacuum's Bombay Refinery.
Opens floodgates for mechanical construction assignments
at Refinery
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| 1963: |
Tank-farm project for Gujarat Refinery, India's first indigenous refinery
170 cone & floating roof tanks
20,000 MT. of steel fabrication
4 crude oil floating roof tanks of 56 m. diameter x 12.2 m. height.
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| 1964: |
First fully equipped pressure vessel factory in Bombay. Designed and manufactured the earliest LPG bullets in India. |
| 1965: |
Designed and fabricated first 5 m. diameter x 52 m. height crude distillation column for Esso Refinery in Bombay. |
| 1967: |
Development of in-house manufacturing capabilities for Welding Rectifiers to insulate the company from import constraints.
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| 1968: |
First Indian company to design and construct Highpressure LPG storage spheres for Esso's Bombay Refinery.
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| 1969: |
Reconstituted into the limited liability company 'Vijay Tanks & Vessels Limited'. Second pressure vessel factory in Southern India.
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| 1970: |
Licensee arrangement with Graver Tank manufacturing Co. (U.S.A.) for floating roof and cryogenic tank technology.
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| 1971: |
First Indian company to design and construct cryogenic storage systems for LOX/LIN service for Hindustan Steel Ltd.
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| 1972: |
In-house development of the SAW process for tank construction.
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| 1973: |
Designed and Constructed Asia's largest Crude Oil Storage Terminal at Vadinar 13 nos. 90,000 cu.m. 79.5 m. diameter x 18.1 m. height Double Deck floating roof tanks.
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| 1974: |
Foray into the international arena with a tank-farm project for Kuwait Oil Company.Crude and vacuum heaters for Gujarat Refinery's 3 million tonne expansion unit.
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| 1975: |
First Indian export of nine LPG storage bullets to Iraq.Turnkey tankfarm projects for Kenya Pipeline Company at Nairobi Terminal & Embakasi Airport.
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| 1976: |
Developed the Indian Standard Code for tank design and construction as a lead member of the Government of India appointed technical committee
US $3.5 million Aviation Fuel Storage & Handling Facility at Kuwait Airport for KAFCO.
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| 1978: |
Turnkey
project for a Pilot Distillation Plant for Gujarat Refinery.
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| 1979: |
US $17 million tank-farm project by JGC, Japan, for the Mina Al Ahmadi Refinery Modernisation Project, Kuwait
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| 1981: |
EPC contract for a refrigerated Ammonia Import Terminal at Tuticorin.
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| 1983: |
US $4.5 million Fuel Oil Storage & Handling Facility at Abukamash, Libya.
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| 1986: |
EPC contract for a Cryogenic Ethylene Storage Terminal at IPCL, Nagothane, involving India's first 9 % Ni Tanks.
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| 1987: |
Introduced the concept of tank construction by hydraulic jacking into India.
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| 1989: |
Turnkey
project for two coke chambers at the operating Gauhati Refinery. VTV's innovative construction designs on this project, vetted by the Indian Institute of Technology, have since become an Indian Industry standard.
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| 1992: |
Embarked on a special project for the development of the 'Varaha Sphere', to enable the progressive construction of a sphere top downwards.
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| 1993: |
Commissioned
the US $33 million project for Brega Petroleum, Libya, for an Oil and Gas Storage and Handling Facility at Sebha. Relocation of the pressure vessel factories to Baroda and Jamnagar.
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| 1994: |
US
$7.9 million EPC contract for Brega's fuel oil storage & handling terminal at Tobruk, Libya.
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| 1995: |
Built
the world's first hydraulically lifted spherical tank using VTV's patented construction process.
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| 1998: |
Built
India's largest crude oil storage terminal consisting of 12 nos. 92 m. diameter x 20 m. height Double Deck floating roof tanks.
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| 1999: |
US
$15 million project for India's largest LPG mounded storage
and handling terminal.
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| 2000: |
15 nos. sphere farm at the Essar / ABB Oil Refinery, consisting of vessels upto 73 mm. thick.
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| 2001: |
Secured the contract for the construction of 2 Nos. 160,000 Cu.M. LNG storage tanks at Dahej, India from ISHIKAWAJIMA -Harima Heavy Industries Co. Ltd
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