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tomer expectation and are at low cost. Since India has
a different market approach with rapid change in ideas,
the company has translated it to business.
Referring to the CTT India growth story, Mr. Arun
Ramachandran, India Business Country Leader, Cum-
mins Turbo Technologies, said overall Cummins has
four business verticals, i.e., engines, power generation,
distribution and components. The journey of Cummins
Turbo Technologies (CTT) began in 1952 when Holset
Engineering of the UK commenced producing the first
turbo-charger. In 1973, Cummins acquired Holset, and
in 1994 it started a joint venture with Tata International
in the name of Tata Holset Ltd. by setting up a plant
in Dewas, Madhya Pradesh. This was originally a shoe
factory, that earned recognition as a modern turbocharg-
er manufacturing plant. Later, in 1998, the company un-
derwent massive expansion-cum-modernisation. Soon,
with its major focus on R&D, Cummins set up its Engi-
neering Centre at Pune.
In March 2007, the JV became a wholly-owned sub-
sidiary of Cummins. CTT signed the MoU of invest-
ing in Pithampur with the MP Government during the
period. Soon thereafter, the ground-breaking ceremony
of the new state-of-the-art modern plant at the Special
Economic Zone of Pithampur took place. In fact, the
Pithampur plant started production in a record time of
just 10 months. The plant achieved profitability in the
first full year of operation in 2009.
Since its strength lies in developing new products in
line with the change in emission standards, CTT has
become a major beneficiary by getting big orders from
commercial vehicle OEMs. With the change in emis-
sion norms in India from BS II to BS III in 2010, the
company secured business from Ashok Leyland, the ex-
ecution of which led to the set up of a plant at Rudrapur.
Similarly, with the change in emission norms for tractor
industry last year, the company was able to get major
business from farm tractor manufacturers. With its three
manufacturing facilities located at Dewas, Pithampur
and Rudrapur, CTT produces light duty, mid-range and
high horsepower turbochargers of 200, 300 and 800 Se-
ries.
According to Mr. Arun Ramachandran, during 1996-
2009, the company achieved a faster growth, and the
turnover increased multifold. In the last five years, the
Plant inauguration by Mr. Ratan Tata on Nov. 26, 1996
The Dewas plant
component zone
India is very much part of CTT’s growth story as the In-
dian domestic market will continue growing at a
phenomenal rate.