Peenya
Encyclopedia
Peenya is the name of an industrial area of the Bangalore
city in India
. It is considered to be one of the largest industrial areas in Asia. Peenya lies on Bangalore - Mangalore
Highway ( NH-48 ). It houses small, medium, and large scale industries. The industrial area is known for engineering, electrical goods such as: transformer
s, motors
and generators, textile (silk), hydraulics and machine tool industries. The industrial area was established in late 1970s. Well known companies in India like Wipro Technologies, Kirloskar Group
, ABB, Bharat Fritz Werner have their factories at Peenya.
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
city in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. It is considered to be one of the largest industrial areas in Asia. Peenya lies on Bangalore - Mangalore
Mangalore
Mangalore is the chief port city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located about west of the state capital, Bangalore. Mangalore lies between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghat mountain ranges, and is the administrative headquarters of the Dakshina Kannada district in south western...
Highway ( NH-48 ). It houses small, medium, and large scale industries. The industrial area is known for engineering, electrical goods such as: transformer
Transformer
A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled conductors—the transformer's coils. A varying current in the first or primary winding creates a varying magnetic flux in the transformer's core and thus a varying magnetic field...
s, motors
Electric motor
An electric motor converts electrical energy into mechanical energy.Most electric motors operate through the interaction of magnetic fields and current-carrying conductors to generate force...
and generators, textile (silk), hydraulics and machine tool industries. The industrial area was established in late 1970s. Well known companies in India like Wipro Technologies, Kirloskar Group
Kirloskar Group
The Kirloskar Group is India's largest Engineering and Construction Conglomerate with sales exceeding $3.5 billion...
, ABB, Bharat Fritz Werner have their factories at Peenya.