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In India, pressings are manufactured mainly by SMEs, some of which have outgrown
their initial ambitions and have become larger in scale. While many have
been limited to local markets, which are able to absorb their production capacities,
some of them are national in their market reach, and many export their products as
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Some of the large companies in the industry are:
• Rasandik Engineering Industries Limited that supplies pressings to the major
automotive companies like Tata Motors, Honda, General Motors, and Renault
among others
• Fairfield Pressings Limited that is a renowned name in manufacturing sheet metal
pressings and sub-assemblies. It is a major supplier to Tata Motors, John Deere,
Larsen & Toubro, LG Electronics, Whirlpool Corporation etc.
• Rajhans Pressings Private Limited that manufactures components for the automotive
industry and precision sheet metal parts among others
• Metal and Pressings (MNP) that manufactures safety belts, power windows,
power looms etc
Railway containers
The railway containers market has been booming especially since 2006. This is
because the Indian Railways started allowing private participation in container
transportation in the year 2006 that led to the emergence of a large number of private
train operators, and hence increased transport through railway containers. The
industry has been growing on the back of an increase in demand for custom built
containers for oil exploration, defence and space research etc.
New innovations leading to development of the industry
Containerised cargo transport is set to get cheaper bringing a whole new population
of small craftspeople and manufacturers into India’s export basket. Some innovations
have also been made to further the growth of container transport through rail.
The Indian Railways is introducing double stack container trains for the first time
in the country and this will make India the second country in the world to run these
trains after North America. According to the Ministry of Railways in India, in the
15) Reference has been made to The Hindu Business Line (8th August 2007)
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