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Henning Holck-Larsen (4 July 1907 – 27 July 2003) was a Danish engineer who co-founded the Indian engineering firm Larsen & Toubro (L&T). Early life and career [ edit ] Holck-Larsen was educated at the University of Copenhagen (and what is now the Technical University of Denmark ).
Mr. Henning Holck-Larsen (HHL) - tall, kind and cheerful, a marvelous memory for names & faces, a radiant smile and a good word for everyone – that’s how many of us remember him. He was a visionary, pioneering industrialist and co-founder of the company that proudly bears his name. HHL was unique in many ways: he was a Dane who spent his ...
Jul 27, 2003 · Mr Holck-Larsen’s funeral will leave his residence at 3C, Rashmi, Carmichael Road, Mumbai, for the Chandanwadi crematorium at 5 pm on Monday. Larsen and Toubro has lost its figurehead. Henning Holck-Larsen, 96, co-founder and chairman emeritus of the engineering and construction conglomerate passed away in Mumbai on Sunday, after a brief ...
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In 1938, Henning Holck-Larsen and Soren K. Toubro set up a partnership in a small office in downtown Mumbai (then Bombay). They marketed Danish dairy equipment. A year later, when World War II broke out, the fledgling Company’s genius for innovation came to the fore. It began to make the products it used to import.
HENNING HOLCK-LARSEN, a young master of chemical engineering from the University of Copenhagen, came to India nearly 40 years ago to sell equipment for manufacturing cement. During World War II they operated a repair shop as the first emergency floating dock in Bombay harbor for repair and conversion of Allied merchant vessels as warships.
Apr 11, 2015 · Henning Holck Larsen, winner of the 1976 Magasaysay Award for International Understanding is the pioneer of heavy industrial engineering in India. Larsen, who came to India 40 years ago as a young Danish engineer, is equally well known for his immense contribution towards India's technological modernization, as he is for his policy of complementing industrialization with human concern.
Learn about the life and achievements of Henning Holck-Larsen, who co-founded Larsen & Toubro, a leading Indian conglomerate, and received the Ramon Magsaysay Award and the Padma Bhushan. Watch an interview with his foundation chairman and read some of his quotations.
