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COMPANY PROFILE

BUILT TO LAST

It’s a unique milestone for Forms and Gears as it finishes 50 years of fixture
building. It thus makes for an opportune time to capture the feats accomplished,
honor its past, and look forward to its innovations in the future…

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Large-sized component fixturing

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his year marks the 50 Three generations “One of our strengths is our
T year of one of Asia’s old- of employees loyal, skilled, and experienced
est and best-known fix-
Reji Varghese, Managing Direc-
workforce, and we have people
ture building company Forms tor, Forms and Gears, says, “When whose fathers and grandfathers
and Gears. A pioneer on the fix- I joined the company in 1987, worked with us. In this day and
ture building front, it has been at my father put me on the Burkhart age, having three generations
POONAM PEDNEKAR the forefront of a number of Jig Boring machine. I worked of employees working with one
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Magic Wand Media Inc landmark projects in India and as an operator on this machine company is rare and is a testa-
poonam.pednekar@ abroad for over five decades. for a few years. As Tool Room is ment to the company and its
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The company was founded in 1972 a highly specialized profession, culture,” he adds.
by RT Varghese, a Mechanical En- we have a robust apprenticeship Director of Special Projects,
gineer from IIT Kharagpur. After system, and most of our senior Annu Varghese, a Masters in
his passing away in 2001, the com- management including me have Mechanical Engineering from
pany has been run by his son and come up through this apprentice- the University of Texas at Aus-
daughter Reji and Annu Varghese. ship training.” tin, USA, shares, “I joined the

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