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Standard Capacitors has been serving the industry for over three decades with energy-efficiency products like PFC capacitors, automatic power factor correction panels, APFC relays, energy storage capacitors, HT capacitors, etc. Subhash C. Gupta gives keen insights into the capacitor industry and sees how India's energy-efficiency consciousness is bound to drive up demand. Apart from expounding on key industry challenges, he shares his view on China's role in the global electrical equipment industry. An interview by Venugopal Pillai. Standard Capacitors has been in the business for over 30 years now. Tell us in brief how the company's product range has grown over these years. Yes, Standard Capacitors has been in business for over 36 years now. We have grown from a humble beginning to gain respectable place in capacitor business. We have diversified in real time power factor correction systems, medium voltage capacitor installations and MV APFC systems. We undertake turnkey jobs for power factor correction in all voltages ranges and KVAr ratings. Automatic power factor correction (APFC) systems are gaining important as they help in achieving power factor of "unity". Tell us about the growing role of APFC systems and how Standard Capacitors plans to capture an increasing market share. In last few years there has been increase of non-linear loads like variable speed drives, UPS and computers in many industrial and office electrical network. These non-linear loads generate current and voltage harmonics. PF improvement in these conditions become difficult as capacitors get overloaded because of harmonics and their application also may result in resonance conditions, making the condition worse. There is often felt a need of a very reliable PF correction capacitor that shall not only withstand high RMS current but also offer long operational life under sustained harmonics overloads. We are in line with the latest trends in this industry. Automatic power factor correction is our specialization. We have adopted real ...