Rings up to maximum diameter of 4.5m and maximum height of 500mm…
HIGHLIGHTS
- Bharat Forge commissions its new fully integrated Ring Rolling Facility at its Centre for Advanced Manufacturing, Baramati.
- The new ring rolling facility can make rings up to a maximum diameter of 4.5 m, maximum height of up to 500 mm and maximum weight of up to 3T.
- These rings will be used across a broad spectrum of end user applications globally and will primarily cater to sectors such as Wind Energy, Defense, Oil & Gas, Mining, Material Handling Equipment and Bearing Industry.
- The commercialization of the ring rolling facility completes the first phase of our non auto foray.
Bharat Forge, the flagship company of the USD 2.4 billion Kalyani Group and a global leader in manufacturing & metal forming today announced the commissioning of its new fully integrated Ring Rolling Facility at its Centre for Advanced Manufacturing at Baramati. The facility was inaugurated by Dr Albert Hieronimus, President & CEO, Bosch Rexroth AG.
The new fully integrated facility is equipped with 4000T Blanking press, a Radial Axial Ring Rolling machine, both made by Wagner with capability to roll rings up to a maximum diameter of 4.5m, maximum height of up to 500mm and maximum weight of up to 3 tons. The facility is also equipped with modern furnaces and Robot Manipulator from Glama, Germany. Slewing rings, flanges and gear blanks for the wind industry, bearings etc. are some of the products that will be manufactured at this facility and will primarily cater to the Wind Energy, Thermal Energy, Defense, Oil & Gas, Material Handling Equipment and Bearing Industry, both, for domestic & global markets.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. B N Kalyani, Chairman & Managing Director, Bharat Forge Ltd., said, “The commercialization of the ring rolling facility successfully completes the first phase of our non auto foray, which we conceptualized in 2005. This will enable us to achieve our target of having 40% of our revenue from the non auto sector by 2012 from current levels of 21%”.
This new facility will act as a catalyst to further accelerate BFL’s revenue growth and de-risking its business model besides diversifying its non auto business. We have received strong customer response for domestic & international applications.
About Bharat Forge
Bharat Forge Limited (BFL), the Pune based Indian multinational is a technology-driven global leader in metal forming having trans-continental presence on more than a dozen manufacturing locations, serving several sectors including automobile, power, railways, shipping, oil and gas, aerospace, etc. Part of the Kalyani Group – a US $ 2.4 billion conglomerate with over 10,000 global work force; BFL today has the largest repository of metallurgical knowledge in the region and offers complete service supply capability to its geographically dispersed marquee customers from concept to testing and validation. BFL is on the threshold of a breakout growth in non-automotive space and has embarked on an elaborate strategy and is currently spearheading a major up scaling of its capacity in forging, casting, fabrication, machining and assembly to launch its multi-sectoral growth plans including power, oil and gas, railways and marine transport, aviation and mining. As a part of this, a 4000 ton press has already been commissioned at Pune, 80 Mtr ton hammer at Baramati while a 14000 ton press, the largest in this part of the globe, to manufacture heavy forgings, including rotors and shafts for nuclear power plants, is on the drawing board and expected to be commissioned in the year 2013.