ABOUT FACTORY FACILITIES:

OPAL is having the factory, in a remote place in Thanjavur District, an industrially backward area only with the aim of providing employment opportunity for the upliftment of Rural women. OPAL also has a goal to manufacture only Energy saving devices for the purpose of supporting energy crisis in India and had contributed a lot till date.

The factory is setup in the Land area of 2.34 Acres and with built up area of 20,000 SFT, with all the facilities required for the manufacturing such as assembly halls, Quality Control, Bulk store, Component Stores, Conference Hall, Auditorium, Office area, Canteen, Power House, Watchman Quarters and big Lawn Area with concrete Roads. OPAL has all the facilities required for the manufacturing of Electronic products.

OPAL now recently added SMT machineries required for LED lights production. Now OPAL is equipped with most modern machineries to manufacture all the ranges of LED Lights.

TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE:

OPAL was manufacturing Electronic Ballasts, used in tubelight applications to conserve energy up to 30% . There was a technological change in the field of lighting towards LED lights from the year 2013. The LED was able to save power up to 70%.
So there was a shift towards LED lights and the demand on Electronic ballast started shrinking down. Because of this shift, OPAL factory was also modified to manufacture LED lights by changing the production Lines and incorporating necessary machineries.
Now OPAL factory is ready to manufacture LED Lights and its production Capacity is Rs.2.00 Crores per month per shift. OPAL may have to add some Testing machineries.

COMPETITION:

In the last 3 years, the LED Lights were dumped in India by Chinese manufacturers, through direct and indirect channels and most of them filled the domestic and commercial requirements.
The prices were cheap and none of the local manufacturers were able to compete with them and their businesses were only with the Industries. Now Government has brought the norms to restricts the import of LED lights.
With this the grey market operation is reduced and the real manufactures are able to meet the genuine competition. The support of Government by restricting the import will help the manufacturer to meet the competition.
But many bigger brands are getting their LED Light Products, branded from China. Many of the big brands don’t have the factory in India to manufacture LED Lights.

STRENGTH OF OPAL

• OPAL quality is well established over 27 Years across the industries in India and in abroad.
• OPAL have designed and developed its own Drivers for LED lights, the heart of the system, which determines the reliability.
• OPAL have wide Industrial customer base through its network.
• OPAL is the only brand, which is providing service to its products during and after warrantee period, since 1989.
• LED lights life is claimed to be 50000Hrs, say 10 Years. Most of the brands give warrantee of maximum 2 years, but when it fails after 2 years it is to be thrown out and the e-waste is generated. Whereas at OPAL, the service is provided even after the warrantee period till the life of the product. The user can utilize the products full usage. This out beats most of the competitor and OPAL stands to gain. OPAL also helps in reducing the e-waste, a biggest problem to the environment.
• OPAL, through it strong R&D makes most reliable products, and can easily compete with other big Brands in terms of performance, specification and most importantly the Reliability.
• OPAL has high production capacity with 20,000 SFT factory.
• OPAL manufactures the entire range of LED Lights in its basket.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

The factory was awarded for Performance Excellence by the Government of Tamilnadu in the year 1991 & 1994. In the year 2000, the factory was awarded ISO 9001 Certification. Presently OPAL factory is ISO 9001-2008 Certified.
The factory has RoHS facility to cater to the needs of European Union requirements of Electronic Ballasts and LED Driver and Lights. The company was exporting world class products to many countries including USA, UK and New Zealand.
In order to sensitize the people with the awareness of energy efficiency and conservation, the company conducts regularly seminars in various forums. It also undertakes socio-economic activities in the districts like

Providing employment opportunity for the women folk in the industrially backward rural area

• Providing basic facilities for the students of Government and Private schools situated nearby.
• Conducting Science Exhibition for the school students and for unemployed youth.
• Adopting villages in a small way to help the villagers to increase their income.
• Providing a Community Bore Well to a nearby village for their Agriculture Co-operative farming.
• Planning to provide Solar Pumping System for agriculture usage.

OPAL – COMMITTED FOR ENERGY SAVING on the principal ENERGY SAVED IS ENERGY PRODUCED

PROFILE

• V.Ramaraj hails from a rural agriculturist family and has a good academic track record. He completed his B.E in Electronic & Communication from C.I.T, Coimbatore during the year 1977 and subsequently completed Masters Degree with specialization in Applied Electronics from Guindy Engineering College, Chennai in the year 1979.
• He has special inclination for research and innovation in electronic and electrical engineering.
• V. Ramaraj got the award for the project work “ Surgical Diathermy “ from the University of Madras for the year 1977. V. Ramaraj also got an “ Outstanding Student Award “ from the CIT in the year 2011.
• V,Ramaraj also specialized in the field of Biomedical Engineering in UG and PG courses. Had done project on automatic detection of abnormal ECG and have experience in Dialyzing Machines.
• He is the member in Indian Society of Lighting Engineer ( ISLE )
• He has started a company to manufacture Electronic Instruments in Chennai in the year 1980 in the name of “ Microdesigns “ and manufactured import substitute equipments necessary for Tyre Industry.
• In the year 1989, he has established ELTRO STREAKS, the Industry in the rural area to provide employment to rural people in Peravurani, Tanjore District and engaged in manufacturing Electronic Ballast with brand name “ OPAL”. When every manufacturer failed in quality ( Reliability ) OPAL was able to establish its reliability and Industries were made to believe that Electronic Ballast can be used reliably, in the Electrical supply of the industrial environments.
• The firm “ Eltrostreaks “ got converted as a Private Ltd company as “ OPAL ENERGY SOLUTION PRIVATE LTD” in March 2007.
• “ OPAL “ factory has received two awards from the Department of Industries and Commerce for its best performance.
• The “ OPAL “ Factory has exported products to USA,UK ,NZ etc