Grind Master in marketing deal with 2 Europe firms

Aurangabad-based machine tools company Grind Master has forged a marketing tie-up with two European companies, Teknoliantiki (Greece) and Neuteq (UK) for venturing in the European markets.

This follows its successful participation in Emo, the largest biannual machine tool exhibition held at Hanover, Germany recently.

Mohini Kelkar, the company;s managing director said, "Grind Master displayed micro finishing, tube polishing, bar grinding and centre-less belt grinding machines and sold all of them."

Nearly 2,000 exhibitors from 39 countries had put up stalls at the event. Grind Master, claims to have the world's widest range of machine tools for deburring, polishing, grinding and micro finishing.

Milind Kelkar and Mohini Kelkar had built up a thriving niche for manufacturing business from a small investment of Rs 25000 11 years ago.

Today, they run a four-company group with a total investment of Rs 5 crore and employ more than 200 people. It was a just a beacon in the backwoods of the backward region like Marathwada in which Grind Master became the master in grinding and finishing business in an innovative manner and exporting the material worldwide.

They are reputed Auto component makers like Delphi, Honda, Halberg Guss have got the special purpose machines developed Grind Masters.

Grind Master also represents two German companies, Vereinigte Schmirgelund Maschinen-Fabriken (VSM) for a complete range of coated abrasives and Lippert Unipol - a Fuchs group company for the latter's grinding and polishing tools.