Skipper Limited

The company was incorporated as Skipper Investments Limited in 1981. It was renamed Skipper Steels Limited in 1990 and diversified to manufacture Telecom Towers and High Masts. It changed its name to Skipper Limited in 2009. It set up an LPG Gas Cylinder unit in 2001, followed by establishing its first tube mill in 2003. In 2005, the company set up its first Galvanising plant. Skipper received Power grid approval for the Tower unit and got an order for 400kV towers in 2006.

In 2007, it forayed into the value addition of Steel Tubes as scaffolding. In 2009, Skipper Limited received an order for 800KV transmission tower from Power Grid Corporation of India Limited. It also commissioned a Polymer production manufacturing Unit in Uluberia, West Bengal and a double side Tube GI Plant in 2009.In April 2015, Skipper Limited set up a PVC manufacturing facility in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, with a capacity of 10,000 metric tonnes. The Ahmedabad plant was commissioned with an investment of ? 50 crores. In December 2015, Skipper entered the Northeast India by commissioning its manufacturing plant in Guwahati, Assam with a capacity to manufacture 4000 MTPA of plumbing and agricultural pipes.In January 2016, the company set up one of India's largest galvanizing plants in Uluberia, West Bengal. The plant is meant for structures that are 2.5m in diameter and 12m in length. The total galvanizing capacity of the plant is 8000 tonnes per month. It set up a PVC products plant in Sikandrabad, Uttar Pradesh in 2016, which has a capacity of about 8,000 metric tonnes.In March 2017, the company invested ?70 crores and set up a new plant in Palasbari, Guwahati, which has a capacity to manufacture 30,000 tonnes of engineering products and 7000 tonnes of polymer products annually.