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January 2012
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ORBIT expands to further contribute
valuable innovative solutions
Established in 1990 in Gujarat, Orbit
Bearings is one of the leading manufactur-
ers of Taper and Cylindrical Roller Bear-
ings for Automotive & Industrial Applica-
tions for its OEM Customers manufacturing
Trucks, Truck Trailers, Agriculture Trac-
tors, Transmissions, Engines, Compressors,
Industrial Gearboxes etc. The Company is
headquartered in Rajkot, Gujarat with its in-
ternational office located in Germany. As a
process driven technical solutions provider,
Orbit is the 1st Indian Company to export
HUB bearings to various European truck
trailer manufacturers and now for its Indian
customers also. It is one of the fastest growing bearing
companies in India with more than 30% growth rate per
annum.
Over the years, Orbit has evolved from being a manu-
facturing oriented company to a knowledge based en-
gineering entity that helps its customers to design, test
and customize bearing solutions as per their require-
ments. The commitment to quality has made Orbit a
Preferred Supplier to various National and International
Companies. The key focused areas of the company in-
clude product design, prototype development, product
engineering and testing, Material and product technol-
ogy and application engineering. Mr. Vinesh Patel,
Managing Director, Orbit Bearings said: “We strive to
help our customers by providing technically innovative
solutions.”
Orbit’s unique approach has helped it integrate new
and latest technology in their production cycle. The
Company re-invests more than 5% of its annual rev-
Bearings
enues on Research & Development to identify better
ways to combine new systems and processes for im-
proving product performance.
Orbit has also setup a virtual simulation testing for its
automotive customers and is investing heavily in fric-
tion management processes to improve fuel efficiency.
This is part of the “Green” initiative taken by the com-
pany to become more environment friendly and help its
customers to do the same.
Orbit, since a long time, has been exporting to Heavy
Vehicle Industry in North America, Europe and Latin
America. Apart from a significant international pres-
ence, there is an important domestic base in the form
of Indian clients such as Ashok Leyland, Mahindra &
Mahindra, Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles, Dana,
Escorts, Sonalika, Greaves, Apollo and many more.
Commenting on exports, Mr.. Vinesh Patel said: “We
have been investing to setup testing facilities which can
conduct endurance and validation tests for all our ad-
vanced engineering products.”
Furthermore, in order to suffice its increasing de-
mands of its existing OEM customers and continuous
additions of new customers to the list, Orbit is expand-
ing its manufacturing capacity to 10 million taper and
cylindrical roller bearings annually.
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“We at Orbit bearings provide advance engi-
neering products with customized solutions to
our global customers at cost competitive prices.”
– Mr.. Vinesh Patel