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MOTORINDIA
l September 2012
KCI’s modern bearings plant
coming up in Gujarat
Outlining the company’s journey
as well as success over the years
in an interview to MOTORINDIA,
Mr. Rajeev Hiwale, Vice President
- Sales & Marketing, KCI Bear-
ings, said that, though started in a
humble way, the KCI bearings have
today become one of the well ac-
cepted and preferred brands in the
country. The company’s overall
performance is well reflected in the
growing acceptance of its products
by the major automobile OEMs in
the country. Today, out of total 40
crore revenue for the year 2011-12,
Rs. 24-crore sales revenue came
from the OE business and CV seg-
ment accounted for almost 70 per
cent, of it.
Currently, KCI supplies Needle
roller and Cylindrical roller bear-
ings to almost all commercial vehi-
cle manufacturers like Tata Motors,
VECV, Mahindra Navistar, MAN
and Force Motors, apart from meet-
ing the requirements of Maruti, Es-
corts, ITL , ZF, Rane-TRW, Lucas
etc. In fact, for the Tata Motors
Gear Box Division, HVTL Jam-
shedpur, KCI has emerged one of
the most preferred suppliers, and
has even won overall recognition,
including the Value Engineering
Award from Tata Motors. KCI has
also received Best Supplier award
twice from Rane TRW in the year
2007 & 2012.
Expansion plan
With growing demand for KCI
bearings in the automotive sector,
the company is setting up a mod-
ern plant at Surendranagar under its
expansion plan. Though the mother
plant at Surendranagar produces
bearings for both automotive and
textile sectors, the new plant will
be fully dedicated to automotive
bearing manufacturing with semi
automation. The company endeav-
our is to supply high technology
products at sustainable cost. It has
successfully developed Needle
Roller bearing cages from com-
pound material of engineering plas-
tics, like PA 46 for the first time,
which can make the product, cost
component zone
Record aftermarket sales in a short span of time
Gujarat, from where Mahatma Gandhi hailed offers a
lot of manufacturing opportunities. In fact, the State
is known as a major hub for production and export of
a variety of industrial and automotive products, mainly
bearings. For instance, KCI Bearings (India) Pvt. Ltd.,
promoted by the well-known Gadani family, was set up
at Surendranagar 35 years ago. However during last
two years under able leadership of, its Managing Direc-
tor, Mr. Hasmukh Gadani the automotive division is
growing at more than prevailing Industry growth rate.
Mr. Rajeev Hiwale
Vice President - Sales & Marketing