title: Avantha Group
text: # Avantha Group
  
  Avantha Group is an Indian business conglomerate. Its businesses include power generation and distribution, power transmission and distribution equipment and services, paper and pulp, farm forestry, and infrastructure.
  
  ## Divisions
  
  Avantha Group operates in 90 countries with over 25,000 employees worldwide. Business units include:
  
  * Crompton Greaves, (CG) India's largest power transmission and distribution equipment company, listed on the Indian Stock exchanges. CG acquired:
  
     * Pauwels (Belgium) in 2005,
  
     * Ganz Hungary in 2006,
  
     * Microsol Ireland in 2007,
  
     * Sonomatra France in 2008,
  
     * MSE Power Systems United States, also in 2008,
  
     * Power Technology Solutions UK in 2010
  
     * Three business in Nelco India in 2011
  
     * Emotron Sweden in 2011
  
     * QEI Inc, USA and
  
     * ZIV Group, Spain in 2012
  * Ballarpur Industries (BILT), India's largest paper manufacturer, listed on the Indian Stock exchanges.
  
     * BILT acquired Sabah Forest Industries (SFI) of Malaysia in 2007.
  * Avantha Power & Infrastructure, a company involved in power generation. On 16 August 2021 the company announced the commencement of insolvency.
  * Biltech Building Elements, which manufactures lightweight autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) from fly ash.
  