Text: Anusha B Pinnacle Industries, a leading automotive seating and interior systems manufacturing company, plans to raise its annual turnover to Rs 500 crore from the present Rs 200 crore. The company has a capacity to produce 10,00,000 seats annually at its plants at Pithampur, near Indore, Madhya Pradesh and in Pune, Maharashtra. About 90% of its products go to[Read More…]
Text: Bhargav TS The Hosur-based Harita Seating Systems Ltd (HSSL), a TVS group company, is developing mechanical and pneumatic suspended seats for truck and tractor drivers. The improvement of automotive seating system, particularly for the driver, has been a priority interest since many years as professional drivers spend most of their time there and feel more fatigue than passengers. Seating[Read More…]
Text: Bhargav TS The Canadian auto component maker Magna International Inc, is now working with the OEMs in India to introduce a new core front structure family that will provide a flexible, light-weight seat structure which is also adaptable, scalable, and modular across platforms. Increased seat content is currently driving the market for new seating technologies. That include: Seat Adjustability,[Read More…]
Text : Bhushan Mhapralkar Automotive seating systems have come a long way from the first car. They have become a crucial part of comfort, safety and ergonomic capability. The seating systems, spanning across automotives, from two-wheeler to a giant dump truck, have the participation of global giants like Lear Corporation, Faurecia, IFB Automotive, Magna, IAV, Dura Automotive, Aktis Engineering Solutions,[Read More…]
Text & Photos: Bhargav TS Faurecia Interior Systems (FIS), a global leader in automotive interiors, is building its third plant in Chennai to manufacture instrument panels (IP), door panels (DP) and centre consoles (CC) at an investment of Rs 90 crore. The new technology plant is expected to begin production in October 2016. FIS already has 2 facilities in Maraimalai[Read More…]
Text: Anusha B Schenck Rotec India, a 100% subsidiary of German-based International Group established in 1986 plans to focus India and Asia-Pacific markets. The company that supplies balancing machines to the automotive industry find its application in crankshaft, brake disc, flywheel, turbochargers and tyre and wheel assembly. The wide range of applications are designed based on the experience, constant research[Read More…]
Text: Anusha B Avia Bantleon, a German-based lubricants and coolant manufacturer steps into the Indian market with its lubricant and coolant solutions. When it comes to automotive and industrial lubricants, the company has commendable expertise and history of references to show its prowess in providing lubricant solutions. Tailor made solutions is what the company is specialised into and before trialling[Read More…]
By: Richard Keller, Member of the Management at EMAG ECM GmbH Downsising the engine has been a dominating trend in the automotive industry for years. Cylinder capacities are forever shrinking, whilst the application of turbocharging increases the pressure of the air-fuel mixture. And this affects all components involved. For an instance, the piston, which undergoes extreme stress in the modern[Read More…]
Tyrolit, a leading supplier of innovative solutions in grinding, cutting, drilling, honing, dressing and polishing tool is banking on its new Genis 2 grinding wheel. Genis is a very popular product especially in the automotive industry due to its vitrified bond and CBN abrasive grains. Numerous crankshafts, camshafts, balancer shafts and transmission shafts, as well as fuel injection components are[Read More…]
The machine builder stands unique with its assembly lines and testing solutions that allows to makes the components error free. Text: Bhargav TS Titan Automation Solutions, part of Titan Company that produces manufacturing machines, assembly lines and test rigs to industries like automotive, electrical and electronics, medical and healthcare stands unique with its assembly line solutions and testing solutions. The[Read More…]
