Approximately 4.5 kilometers away from the dry-dock, and located on 95 hectares of land in a Special Economic Zone approved by the Government of India, a state of the art block-making facility has been set up for fabrication of hull blocks

By having located the workshops and fabrication facilities in a SEZ away from the dockyard site, PSL has the dual advantage of having been able to reserve the maximum area of water frontage available at the shipyard site for ship assembly, offshore fabrication and ship repair activities whilst carrying out its fabrication and other similar activities through a highly tax-efficient SEZ unit.

The blocks manufactured at this site are pre-outfitted to the maximum extent. This is done in the ideal working conditions offered by covered fabrication shops. When ready, the blocks are moved to the dock-side for pre-erection of mega/giga-blocks followed by lowering them on the dock floor for final assembly and vessel launching.

The block-making site is equipped with, among others, the following facilities:

	A very large fabrication facility, spread over an area of 235 acres, having closed working areas of approximately 2 million square feet
	The fabrication facility can cut steel and fabricate blocks of upto 144,000 Ton per annum, as it  is equipped with :
	270 meter long panel line with one side welding machine from TTS Norway
	8 Plasma/gas cutting machines from Koike, Japan
	2  Marking machines from Koike Japan
	Auto blast and paint line of 185 m length and
	9 blast and paint cells from Hanfu China
	Profile cutting machine from HGG Netherlands
	Ring frame bender from Nieland Netherlands
	Horizontal bending press for ring frame from Himalaya, India
	2 Hydraulic presses having capacities of up to 1600 Ton from Himalaya, India
	2 Plate straightening machines from Himalaya, India
	28 EOT cranes having up to 150 Ton capacity each
	30 Semi gantry cranes having up to 7 Ton capacity each
	3 Gantry cranes having up to 60 Ton capacity each
	3 Transporters,  one of 370 tons capacity & two of 200 tons capacity each

In addition, the Shipyard’s utility infrastructure includes the following:

	2 x 66 KVA power line along with switchyard, transmission and distribution systems
	Water pipeline and fire fighting system along with pumps, overhead tanks and pumping systems
	Low pressure compressed air system
	Infrastructure relating to consumable gases such as O2, CO2, LPG and nitrogen