Mahindra Intertrade commissions blanking line

Mahindra Intertrade Ltd (MIL), a Mahindra & Mahindra Group company, has commissioned its state-of-the-art blanking line facility at Gonde, 25 km from Nashik.

MIL has invested Rs 48 crore so far in the project. This is the first blanking line facility in India.

The blanking line facility with German technology, on a 10-acre land with a built-up area of 6,000 sq m, will produce steel coils and sheets for M&M?s automotive and components divisions.

Speaking to Business Standard, Bharat Doshi, Chairman, Mahindra Intertrade Ltd, said, "MIL's high precision new blanking line facility, incorporating German technology, will process steel coils for automotive body profiles, and rectangular and trapezoidal sheets required for press shop operations. The project is in line with M&M's global expansion plans and its products will cater to the needs of M&M's automotive and auto components sectors, as well as external customers."

"With India becoming a hub for global automotive majors, the customer-centric initiative from Mahindras will serve the automotive industry's demand for quality-blanked profiles. Around 45 per cent of the production at the blanking line facility in Nashik will cater to Mahindra & Mahindra's automotive and auto components sectors, while the rest of the production (55 per cent) will service the needs of other automotive majors," Doshi said.

This blanking line plant will handle widewidth material up to 2000 mm and is equipped with an oil-based washing unit specially-designed for skin panels, the first such unit in India.

The equipment for the facility has been imported from the German firm, Muller Wiengarten, a global technology leader in metal forming for the automotive industry.