Thirty years, one campus at a time. From a single drop hammer in 1996 to a 3,150-tonne press line, a foundry, a 70-machine CNC plant and a testing laboratory — each step paid for by the one before it.
Sarita Forgings begins in Ludhiana with a single 3-tonne drop hammer, founded by Mr Anil Jain.
An 6 November 1998 order arrives from Indian Railways. It is the relationship that shapes everything since.
A 2-tonne drop hammer is added, widening the range of components the shop can forge.
Supply begins to Indian defence programmes under a quality regime that would shape how the company works for the next twenty years.
The decision that turns a forging shop into a components manufacturer. Until now parts have left as forgings. From here they leave finished.
A 4-tonne drop hammer takes the forging range to its present limit of 130 kg.
A dedicated machining workshop opens with three CNC lathes and two vertical machining centres.
The horizontal machining centres are added, bringing prismatic components in-house.
A cast and SG iron foundry opens — a second manufacturing vertical alongside forging — and the company converts to a public limited company.
Casting capacity doubles with the installation of a second induction furnace.
Twenty thousand square yards of new land brings 60+ machining centres and testing lab under one roof.
A further twenty-thousand square yards is acquired for a dedicated press forging plant.
The screw press line is commissioned on 1 June — closed-die, near-net-shape forging with induction billet heating and in-line trimming.