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Maruti Suzuki
ELGI has always had a reputation of focusing on customer requirements
and going the extra mile in providing total air solutions that are often
times tailor-made to a customer's specifications and business needs. It
is this cutting edge capability that set us apart from our competitors
and helped us win a strategic turnkey project from Maruti Suzuki.
Maruti Suzuki's
requirements called for 1800 cfm of compressed air, specifically in
three sets of 900 cfm (one as standby) for their new foundry project -
indigenization of their aluminum castings. They appointed Tata
Consulting Engineers (TCE) to evaluate the companies and the offers
received.
The winning vendor would
have to set up the project from inception of the solution to final
implementation and this involved all aspects from supplying, erecting,
commissioning to handing over a completely operational system to Maruti.
Our core competency lies in
providing customized, total compressed air solutions - exactly what
Maruti required, so this was one opportunity we could not afford to
miss.
The specifications were
extremely rigorous and Maruti required a very sophisticated system. The
compressors would have to be remote controlled by a panel with SCADA
(Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Software).
With multinational
competitors bidding for the project, TCE put ELGI through some extremely
stringent evaluations to validate our capabilities, product quality and
capacity to deliver to the exacting demands of the project. We were also
able to illustrate our suitability through our customer - GE. The GE
factory at Faridabad near Delhi hosted Maruti and provided ELGI with an
excellent reference. With GE advocating us as a company, Maruti
recommended ELGI to Suzuki. After Suzuki's clearance, ELGI got into an
electronic bidding session alongside our competitors and within half an
hour we were declared the winners. Today ELGI is executing the order successfully and will have the system operational by February 2003.
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