Motilal Oswal Private Equity (MOPE), through its third private equity fund, India Business Excellence Fund - III, has committed Rs 2 billion to Ludhiana-based forging and machining firm Happy Forgings Ltd.
The funds would be utilised for greenfield expansion and addition of new forging presses to improve share of value-added products, the promoters of the company said. MOPE has raised around Rs 23 billion ($325 mn) for its IBEF III fund, from which this investment has been made.
Vishal Tulsyan, managing director and CEO of MOPE said, "Manufacturing has been one of the focus areas of our Fund as it