JCT Electronics Limited is a flagship company of the Thapar Group, one of India’s largest industrial conglomerates. Founded in the 1920’s, the Thapar Group with 54 companies and 84 manufacturing plants has a group turnover of more than US$____ billions.

JCT Electronics Limited (JCTEL) was the first Colour Picture Tube (CPT) manufacturer in India. JCTEL, formerly known as Punjab Display Devices Limited (PDDL) was set up as a wholly owned subsidiary of Punjab State Industrial Development Corporation (PSIDC) in 1976 to manufacture Black & White Picture Tubes, Cathode Ray Tubes, Gas-filled Discharge Tubes and Fluorescent Display Tubes at Mohali (Punjab), India. PDDL was taken over in 1986 by JCT Ltd., a flagship Thapar Group Company, as a diversification project to manufacture CPTs and therefore renamed as JCTEL. JCTEL thereafter set up a modern plant for manufacture of CPTs in technical collaboration with Hitachi, Japan, one of the pioneers in the Display Devices. Initially the plant had a capacity of 0.6 million CPTs which was increased to 1.20 million over a period of time.

In 1996, JCTEL went in for expansion and set-up a new Greenfield plant near Vadodara in Western India. Engineered in-house with Hitachi’s assistance to manufacture 1 million (presently at 4 million) CPTs per annum in the sizes of 14”, 20” and 21” Pure Flat tubes. Propose to introduce 21” Ultra Slim and Pure Flat CPTs very soon.