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COMPANY PROFILE

ENABLING PROGRESS

Bharat Fritz Werner Ltd (BFW), a flagship company of the Kothari Group, is India’s
leading solution provider of machine tools. With its focus on innovation and
disruption, the company has rightly set the stage to enable and support its growth.

Source: BFW Ltd

B harat Fritz Werner Ltd way back in 1970 in and began ex- their strong trust in us, all our sup-
porting products
(BFW) began its journey
partners,
and
1979. It was
ply chain
our dedi-
in 1961 as a joint venture the first Indian company to supply cated employees,” he adds.
between Fritz Werner Germany local machining solutions to well-
and Indian Promoters, the known Japanese multinationals Catering to a wide variety of
Kothari Group of Industries, at like Maruti Suzuki, Toyota, and segments
a time when our country was Honda as they set up their shops BFW is well spread over many Source:Kennametal India
developing its industrial identity to shape India’s Automotive in- industry segments, including
following independence. Around dustry. Over the years, its prod- Automotive, Farm Equipment,
2002, the Indian promoters uct range expanded, and so did its Defense, Aerospace, Railways,
bought out all the stake of Fritz leadership as a solution provider. Job Shops, Die & Mould, Oil &
Werner, and BFW became a “Over the last decade, we have fo- Gas, Energy, Infrastructure,
fully Indian-owned company. cused on getting our product plat- to name a few. “Automotive
“Over our journey of 60 years, we forms to the global level of technol- remains the largest segment,
POONAM PEDNEKAR
Chief Copy Editor have found our purpose of ‘En- ogy and have also expanded our but over the last five years, we
Magic Wand Media Inc abling Progress,’ and we have sus- offerings to include comprehensive have consciously reduced our
poonam.pednekar@
magicwandmedia.in tained that purpose throughout. It milling/turning and multi-process over-dependence on Automotive
has become our guiding light and technologies, automation, IoT, pro- by capturing more opportunities
is infused deep in the DNA of the cess engineering, and recently, ad- in other segments. Our product
company,” shares Ravi Raghavan, ditive technology,” he says. and market development strat-
Managing Director, BFW. “As we celebrate our 60 th year of egies reflect this direction. For
The company started building service to manufacturing, we are example, keeping in mind the
SPMs (Special Purpose Machines) thankful to all our customers for needs of Aerospace, Defense,

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