Schneider Electric Infrastructure Ltd (SEIL) has reported a 42 per cent year-on-year growth in new order wins in Q1FY26.
In an investor presentation filed on stock exchanges, SEIL said that its new order inflow in Q1FY26 (April to June 2025) stood at Rs.910 crore, registering a 42.1 per cent growth over the comparable Rs.640 crore in Q1FY25.
As of June 30, 2025, the company’s unexecuted order book was Rs.1,635 crore, up nearly 26 per cent compared with the corresponding level in 2024.
SEIL’s new order wins in Q1FY26 included:
- 33kV GIS panels, 25kV GIS panels with CRP, SAS, RTU and SCADA for a metro rail project in western India. This order, or undisclosed value, is believed to the be the largest order for 33kV GIS in India’s transportation sector.
- 40 MVA power transformers for a power distribution utility in western India
- Oil distribution transformers and medium power transformers for a hydropower project in central India
- 6.6kV AIS panels with RIRO and SAS for a domestic steel manufacturer
- 11kV AIS panels and 11kV RMU for a domestic data centre project
- E-house (including 33kV GIS, 11kV AIS motorized RIRO, RTU and SCADA for a power utility in north India
- 8.8 MVA inverter duty transformer for solar energy application
Product upgrade
The presentation also noted that its AIS was now available for medium voltage application up to 36kV and for higher rating up to 3,150A. The AIS features withdrawable vacuum breakers, robust internal arc protection, forced air cooling and smart monitoring.
Capex plans
Schneider Electric Infrastructure said that its capacity expansion initiatives were on track. It may be recalled that in February 2025 SEIL announced plans to expand manufacturing capacity at its transformer plant in Vadodara, Gujarat, from 5,000 MVA to 7,000 MVA, by March 2026. Later, in May 2026, the company announced a Rs.200-crore capex plan to enhance switchgear panel manufacturing capacity at the Vadodara plant from 8,000 panels per year to 14,000 panels per year entailing capex of Rs.110 crore and with commissioning expected during FY27. Besides, the company is also investing Rs.90 crore to put up a new circuit breaker plant at Kolkata, West Bengal, with annual capacity of 40,000 units, taking the company’s overall breaker capacity to 45,000 units per year.
Featured photograph the transformer manufacturing facility of Schneider Electric Infrastructure Ltd at Vadodara in Gujarat.