Hyva (India) Pvt. Ltd., which was incorporated in September 1996 and started operations in 1997, will celebrate its 20th anniversary in November next. The company commenced production in 1998 with in-house cylinder manufacture starting in April 2004.
Cylinder production grew rapidly, alongside new production facilities for tipper in Bangalore (2001), Jamshedpur (2007) and Pune (2011). Hyva India made a large contribution to global cylinder production which reached cumulative totals of 95,000 units in 1995 and 500,000 units in 2007. In 2011, production of the one-millionth cylinder was celebrated around the world, in Germany, Brazil, India and China.
In 1998, Hyva India began supplies of fully-built tipper bodies to Volvo, and soon added other reputed truck OEMs like Tata Motors. Today Hyva is a proud OEM associate for all the leading truck manufacturing companies like Tata Motors, Volvo, Ashok Leyland, Daimler/Bharat Benz, Asia Motor Works, MAN, Volvo Eicher, Mahindra Trucks & Buses, Kamaz and Hino.
Throughout its 20-year journey, Hyva India has produced and sold a wide range of products, including tippers, tipping kits, cranes, waste handling equipment, hookloaders, tail lifts, compressors and power packs. Today, three out of 10 tipper bodies and eight out of 10 front-end hydraulic cylinders in the Indian market are supplied by Hyva, and it is now proud to celebrate as being the first and fastest company in the Indian commercial vehicle industry to produce and sell over 100,000 tipper bodies.
Tippers are deployed in tough terrains like the mining sector, road construction projects, irrigation projects, land development and ore transportation. Keeping the varied needs, Hyva India has developed almost 30 different types of tippers like box body tippers, coal transportation tippers, rock body tippers and exhaust heat body tippers. It designed and developed tippers from HCV & super HCV range (25 ton and above) MCV range (for 16 T GVW trucks) and the LCV range (4 t – 7 t GVW trucks). Apart from the standard tippers, Hyva also has supplied side tippers (two-way or three-way) which are aptly developed for hilly terrain, narrow roads and rural roads.
Hyva also has hydraulically operated load covering system – MULTIKAP – for its tipper range. Considering the growing need of environment-friendly tippers, this products have a wide range of application possibilities in India.
By 2016, the number of employees, technical staff and associates has reached to 609. This includes a sales and service network of around 50 associates. There are about 30 dealers across the country.
The company’s achievements during the last 20 years have let to a certain culture that encourages dynamic people and processes across the organisation, creative thinking, product development and implementation to respond to market requirements.
As 2016 progresses, Hyva India can justifiably celebrate the achievements of its people in production, sales and service, and can look forward with confidence to the next 20 years.