Heavy Vehicles Factory

Heavy Vehicles Factory is an armoured vehicle and battle tank manufacturing factory located at Avadi in Chennai in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is managed by Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited of the Ministry of Defence, Government of India.

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History

Heavy Vehicles Factory was established in 1961 by the Ordnance Factory Board to manufacture heavy battlefield equipment. The design of the factory was undertaken by the Army Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, and construction of the factory was organized by the Indian Army Corps of Engineers. HVF was later made part of AVANI during the re-organisation in 2021.

Plant

The factory is powered by a 16 MW solar power plant, spread over, commissioned in 2018 and installed by Bharat Electronics Limited at a cost of. The plant helps reduce carbon dioxide () emissions to the extent of 26,000 tonnes per annum, saving each year.

Products

Products of HVF include Vijayanta, Kartik BLT, M-46 Catapult and T-72 Ajeya, Arjun MBT and T-90 Bhishma tanks.