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The supply of products was in Source: U-Tech Group Assembly Shop, have made this
small numbers till about 2015, changeover possible; our facil-
U-Tech which started increasing since “We are currently one of the ity has emerged as one of the
Group has then. The biggest breakthrough major suppliers of ATCs in India. best in this segment,” he adds.
associated for U-Tech, shares Udaya, hap- We now locally manufacture
itself with pened in 2018 when Bharat all other products. These are Strong together
many Fritz Werner (BFW), India’s supplied to machine builders U-Tech Group, while big on vi-
Japanese leading machine tool builder, as OE and to all engineering, auto sion, innovation, and quality,
and entered into an agreement with parts manufacturers and other believes in the power of be-
European the company to manufacture manufacturing units.” ing small and efficient. Udaya
machine and supply all its requirements. elaborates on this principle
builders and “This called for major invest- HA Udaya that has led to such rapid
aims to ments and two of our manufac- Managing Director & CEO growth of the group, “We are
be the turing units came up in 2019. U-Tech Group striving hard to be at the pinna-
preferred Although we are still relative- cle in our line of business. Well-
supplier ly new, we today are one of from Taiwan, which it started aware that it’s a long way to go,
for the top the top three manufacturers selling in India from the year we are determined to achieve
ten machine of these products in India. Our 2000. “We are currently one our objective.”
builders products are not just well-ac- of the major suppliers of these The group wanted to foray
in the world. cepted by machine builders products in India. We now lo- into exports and has already
in India, but also other MNCs cally manufacture all other started in a small way. For this,
who bring machines to In- products. These are supplied it has associated itself with
dia. These imported machines to machine builders as OE and many Japanese and European
go with our products as OE,” to all engineering, auto parts machine builders and aim to
shares Udaya proudly. manufacturers and other man- be the preferred suppliers
It would be more appropriate, ufacturing units,” states Udaya. for the top ten machine build-
he continues, to address the “In a short span of 5-6 years, ers in the world.
entity as the ‘U-Tech Group’ we have turned from being a “Whenever we spot a new busi-
since along with U-Tech marketing company into a full- ness opportunity, we start it off
Associates, the group now fledged manufacturing com- as a separate unit headed by a
comprises two more compa- pany. U-Tech Group’s Anant designated business head, pref-
nies in the machine tool relat- Deshpande, Executive Direc- erably a U-Tech stakeholder. As
ed business – U-Tech Seva and tor; Raghupati, Director, Fab an example, U-Tech Seva was
U-Tech Utpadan. “U-Tech As- Shop; and Santosh, Director, formed to concentrate on pro-
sociates is the marketing and viding after-sales service and
sales setup for all the business supply of spares. This unit head
we do. U-Tech Seva focuses on has the responsibility of pro-
after-sales service and supply viding pan India service in less
of spares for all the products than 24 hours,” he says.
we sell. U-Tech Utpadan is the “Similarly, our business units
manufacturing unit of U-Tech for sales and manufacturing
Group,” he informs. are independent, focused out-
fits, fulfilling their obligations,
On a high growth path while at the same time, work-
The only major product the ing towards the overall group
group still sources is the ATC objectives. We plan to achieve
Source: U-Tech Group
A Dual Chip Conveyor and Tank - total system Coolant Tank Assembly Line Product placed in the Assembly Line
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