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BFIL announces acquisition of three Forging Lines capable of producing 72K Tons per annum of heavy forged products

Hyderabad, May 21, 2024……Balu Forge Industries Limited (BFIL), a prominent precision engineering company engaged in manufacturing of crankshafts & forged components, announces the acquisition of three forging lines in a combination of Hammers & Presses capable of producing 72,000 tonnes p.a. of heavy forged products.

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Disclosing this in a press note issued in Hyderabad today, the company said, these newly acquired forging lines will seamlessly integrate with the precision engineering expansion taking place at its upcoming manufacturing campus in Belagavi, Karnataka thereby making BFIL an integrated one-stop solution provider for advanced machining solutions for critical industries viz. Railways, Defence, Oil & Gas, Mining, Aerospace, Defence, Aluminium & other essential precision industries globally.

The new forging unit will be seamlessly integrated with the recently acquired precision machining unit of Mercedes Benz. This will further strengthen our product engineering & increase our precision product offerings to global majors operating in the critical engineering & safety components industry with end-to-end solutions under one roof.

This forging unit includes a 16-ton closed-die forging hammer, ranking amongst the largest in the country and capable of producing forgings up to 800-900 kgs. This capacity will be further enhanced with a 10-ton closed-die forging hammer line and an 8,000-ton capacity mechanical forging press. With these facilities, it is advancing our presence in engineering critical industries viz. Oil and Gas, Aerospace, Defence, Railways, Mining, Aluminium and Auto part manufacturing and many other critical industries.

This acquisition strengthens and expands our critical engineering products portfolio and enhances R&D capabilities in alloy mixing & metal combinations BFIL informed. It provides us unique strength in creating products from different alloys based on Aluminum to Titanium which shall enable BIFL to expand its product offering to major growth industries for critical engineering products and to further capture the OEM market that we cater to across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East regions.

Mobility Startup Get My Parking To Power Mercedes Benz for Digital Parking Experience

Bangalore: Get My Parking, a smart parking technology pioneer has been selected by Mercedes-Benz for providing better parking experience to their car users.

Get My Parking has announced its collaboration with Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India (MBRDI) to assist end-users in searching and navigating to an available parking lot.

Under its flagship Startup Autobahn India programme, MBRDI has been working closely with the IoT-driven digital parking platform, to embed this feature into all Mercedes-Benz cars equipped with Mercedes Me Connect, a digital link between the car and the end-user introduced in October 2019. This collaboration seeks to address the challenge posed by lack of accurate information and limited parking space.

Mr Rasik Pansare, Co-Founder, Get My Parking, explained, “As pioneers of smart parking in India, we always wanted to help urban citizens to have a hassle free parking experience. That mission is accelerated by this collaboration with Mercedes-Benz India wherein their car users can access detailed data on relevant parking lots across multiple interfaces. This partnership highlights our role as the bridge between parking and mobility industry”

Get My Parking has been closely working with the Mercedes Benz (India) R&D team to show their Indian parking data directly inside the Mercedes cars on the touchscreen dashboard as well as their mobile apps. Get My Parking has comprehensive digital data of 9000 parking lots in over 50 cities of India. This rich data capability enables it to help motorists discover relevant parking as per their criteria.

Besides this, Get My Parking has won the Geospatial Excellence Award at the GeoSmart India 2019 summit for pioneering effort in geo-mapping & digitising parking data.