January 03, 2012
Mumbai
CRISIL: Moser Baer India Limited’s bank loan ratings suspended
Rs.4.08 Billion Export Packing Credit # CRISIL BB-/ Negative (Suspended)
Rs.9.013 Billion Long-Term Loan CRISIL BB-/Negative (Suspended)
Rs.1.02 Billion Cash Credit * CRISIL BB-/Negative (Suspended)
Rs.210 Million Proposed Long-Term Bak Loan Facility CRISIL BB-/Negative (Suspended)
Rs.67.5 Million Bank Guarantee CRISIL A4 (Suspended)
Rs.2.9325 Billion Letter of Credit $ CRISIL A4 (Suspended)
* Cash credit fully Interchangeable with Export Packing Credit
# Export Packing Credit fully Interchangeable with Foreign Bills Purchased Foreign Bills Discounting and Working Capital Demand loan
$ Letter of Credit Interchangeable with Bank Guarantee to the extent of Rs1085 million

CRISIL has suspended its ratings on the bank facilities of Moser Baer India Ltd (MBIL). This is because MBIL has not been providing any information on its operations and financials to CRISIL. The suspension reflects CRISIL’s inability to maintain a valid rating in the absence of information from MBIL.

About the Company
MBIL, promoted in 1983 by Mr. Deepak Puri, began manufacturing time recorder units in technical collaboration with Maruzen Corporation, Japan, and Moser Baer Sumiswald, Switzerland. MBIL diversified into optical data storage in 1986, and has evolved into the leading manufacturer of removable data storage media such as floppy disks, compact discs (CDs), and digital versatile discs (DVDs). MBIL is India’s largest, and among the world’s three largest optical storage media manufactures, with a capacity to manufacture 4.8 billion discs per annum at its manufacturing facilities at Noida and Greater Noida (both in Uttar Pradesh).

In October 2005, the company announced plans to enter the photo voltaic (PV) business through its wholly owned subsidiaries – Moser Baer Photo Voltaic Ltd (MBPV) and Moser Baer Solar Limited (MBSL; formerly, PV Technologies India Ltd). MBIL has invested around Rs.3 billion between 2006-07 (refers to financial year, April 1 to March 31) and 2009-10 in MBPV and MBSL. As a forward integration move, the company has entered content distribution (home entertainment) of selling content (movies) on CDs/DVDs manufactured at its optical storage facilities.

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