Grasim Industries Limited on 22 October 2019 signed a definitive agreement to form a Joint Venture Company in India with Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen GmbH for the manufacturing and sale of Composite Hollow Core Insulators to serve the Power Transmission & Distribution industry globally. The JVC, Aditya Birla Power Composites Limited, will set up a CHCI manufacturing plant at Halol, Gujarat, India. This joint venture brings together Aditya Birla Insulators (a unit of Grasim), the 3rd largest global Porcelain Insulator player and Reinhausen Power Composites (a Unit of MR), with over five decades of combined experience in the insulator industry. ABPCL will build a fully integrated CHCI plant at Halol, bringing the latest technology for Composite Hollow Insulators from Europe. It will serve the insulator requirements of Indian and global OEMs in the Power Equipment industry, helping them to enhance their product proposition for the T&D Utilities worldwide.