Automotive Axles Ltd

Promoted as a joint venture by the Kalyani Group and Rockwell International Corporation, US, (35.52% stake) in 1981, Automotive Axles Limited (AAL) manufactures all types of complete axles and axle assemblies including components and corresponding brake sets. It manufactures automotive gears and air and hydraulicactivated brake assemblies. The Company is the largest independent manufacturer of Rear Drive Axle Assemblies in the country. The Company is a joint venture company incorporated in 1981, between Bharat Forge Limited, Pune, India and Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC, USA. The Company is primarily engaged in manufacturing of Axles and Brakes at Mysore, Rudrapur and Jamshedpur. The Companys Rs 30.3cr project at Hootagali near Mysore, commenced commercial production in Jul.84. The company entered the capital market with a public issue.The Company came out of the purview of the Sick Industrial Companies Act, 1985. But, the very next year, its Networth started to erode. So, in 199495, it embarked on a restructuring of the capital in consultation with financial institutions. The company came out with a rights issue in Feb.95 to partfinance an expansion project to increase the manufacturing capacity of axles and brakes.During 199697, the expansion of Axles capacity has been completed and of brakes was put on hold in view of down turn in the market.The company managed to achieve an impressive 20% growth in sales during the year 19992000. As the company is continuing to pursue its efforts on increasing penetration into other domestic and export market opportunities, Meritor HVS (India) Ltd has tiedup technical licensing arrangement for new products for Ashok Leyland and Volvo India Ltd., and already export business worth US 4 Million has been achieved.During 20102011, Company had established brake manufacturing facility at Mysore Rudrapur with Building, Plant and Machinery purchased from Kalyani Global Engineering Pvt Ltd. Thereafter, it established Contract Manufacturing Facility for manufacturing Trailer Axles in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh with the plant and inventories purchased from ANG Industries Limited.During the year 201112, the Company took up the initiative, along with other group companies, to generate power from Green Energy sources and installed one Wind Turbine Generator with 2.00 MW generation capacity at Tithwa, Gujarat. Total Generation of power from the wind mill during the year was 17.42 Lacs KwH (April to September, 2012) which was in turn sold to Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited. Company launched two new products in 201213 one in the lower variant of 5T axle and the higher variant of 18T reduction axle.The Company expanded its manufacturing foot print with a new stateoftheart plant at Jamshedpur for manufacturing Brakes and Trailer axles. The plant had 50,000 Sq.Ft builtup area and had a capacity to make 30,000 brakes and 2,500 Tag Trailer per month in FY 201314. The Company installed a facility to manufacture Hub Reduction Axles at its Mysuru plant during FY 201415.During the year 202122, Company introduced the largest axle in India for 55 tonnes vehicles.