General Electric Manufacturing Company Limited | |
Formation: | 1972 |
Headquarters: | Chittagong, Bangladesh[1] |
Region Served: | Bangladesh |
Language: | Bengali |
Leader Title: | Chairman |
Leader Name: | Md. Shahidul Hoque Bhuia ndc |
General Electric Manufacturing Company Limited is a Bangladesh government owned company that manufactures electric transformers. Eng. Ashraful Islam is the managing director of the company.[2] It is a subsidiary of Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation.[3]
General Electric Manufacturing Company Limited was established in 1972 by the government of Bangladesh. It was built with technical assistance of M/s. Promash Export, a company of the Soviet Union, to manufacture electric equipment like power transformers and completed in 1978. It was transformed into a limited company in 1979. It is located in Patenga, Chittagong.[4] It owns the largest transformer factory in Bangladesh.[5]
In March 2019, the company signed an agreement with Engineering Dimension, a Saudi Arabian company, worth 35 million taka.[6]