Pressels Private Limited, Cuttack, Orissa was established in 1967 to manufacture steam boilers. The Promoter – Director, Sri S.C.Mullick, a dynamic engineer (best graduate and gold medalist from Jadavpur University), and having worked as a Senior Officer in the Orissa Boiler Directorate, resigned his job and started this industry.

In those days small boilers were all of imported design having less efficiency. The company felt the need to develop fuel efficient boilers compatible to the need of our country and started developing boilers on a need based basis. The earliest attempt was to develop small boilers which would be simple in construction, having sufficient steam and water capacity with wide water space and good accessibility for internal cleaning and multiple circuit evaporation. Their first patent (No. 152232 dt. 28.11.81 ) was for such a boiler that was well accepted throughout the country and even in Bangladesh as it required minimum skills in an operator.

PPL’s next venture was to design recovery WATER TUBE. Boilers for paper and pulp industry which are very intricate in design - PPL patented the same in the year 1981 (No. 152113). The third patent (No.179440) to its credit, was for another recovery boiler especially made to suit small paper mills using agro residue for pulping. This project has not been tried on a commercial scale yet as the prototype trial is in process and has lost priority.

PPL has also undertaken a number of retrofit works to upgrade and rebuild existing boilers to increase their capacity by introducing advanced combustion system.

The company’s latest venture is into the field of design, manufacture and commissioning of waste heat recovery boiler using waste gas from Sponge Iron Kilns and and generating Power from the steam produced thereof.