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Engineering Ltd, Satara was ap- ing (AGM) of IMTMA was held steel plant in Rourkela were set
pointed the President and MB on January 29, 1948 in the li- up giving birth to various ancil-
Jambhekar of Mysore Kirloskar brary room of Indian Merchant’s lary industries in the Indian man-
Ltd of Harihar (Mysore State), Chamber at Lalji Naranji Memo- ufacturing landscape. The devel-
was appointed the Vice Presi- rial Building in Bombay. The first opment work on new machine
dent. Important preliminaries for AGM, after adopting the statuto- tools and accessories by Mysore
the formation of the Association ry agenda, deliberated at length Kirloskar, Cooper Engineering,
like the various classes of Mem- about difficulties and problems Praga Tools Corporation, Batala
bership, Membership fees, the faced by the machine tool manu- Engineering, etc. laid the founda-
rights of Members and other in- facturers in the country. Found- tion of the next level of activities
cidental matters were discussed er members discussed the ways of the Association. During this
and tentative decisions were tak- and means for improving status period, IMTMA published the Di-
en at this meeting. of the Indian machine tool indus- rectory of Machine Tools and the
The meeting marked the com- try. Several members put forth master catalogue – Guide to Indi- Today, with
mencement of IMTMA which progressive suggestions for in- an Machine Tools (GIMT), which over 460
was granted recognition by the creasing demand as well as sup- continues to be revised, updated member
Government of India as a body ply of machine tools in the coun- and published annually. companies,
IMTMA
representing machine tool man- try. A meeting of the first-elected The Association continued to represents
ufacturers in India. IMTMA was members of IMTMA’s EC fol- make strategic connections with 90 percent
constituted with 19 members: lowed the first AGM. EC mem- industry associations in various of the
The Mysore Kirloskar Ltd; P.S.G. bers, at the meeting, unanimous- countries for close liaison for organized
& Sons Charity Industrial Insti- ly elected MB Jambhekar as the technology and industry updates. manufac-
turers of
tute; U.M.S. Radio Factory; Coo- President of IMTMA, and DS Members were encouraged to machine
per Engineering Ltd; The Indian Mulla as the first Vice President visit and participate in interna- tools and
Tool Manufacturers Ltd; G.G. of the Association. tional industry trade fairs and related
Dandekar Machine Works Ltd; seminars in India and abroad. items /
Investa Machine Tools & Engi- Settling down in business IMTMA worked closely with the compo-
nents
neering Company Ltd; The Hind IMTMA began its parallel jour- Government and the machine as well
Machines Ltd; The India Machin- ney with the newly formed tool controller and development as sub-
ery Company Ltd; Paul’s Engi- young democratic India which officer. Data was collected from systems
neering Company; Supercrafts was aspiring to emerge as an sectors like Railways on the num- and has
Ltd; The General Engineering industrial nation through the ber, type and sizes of machine brought
the Indian
Works; The Batala Engineering establishment of various Public tools required and the possibil- Machine
Company Ltd; The Zamindar Sector Undertakings (PSUs) and ities of satisfying these require- Tool indus-
Foundry; Metropole Works; research institutions. The forma- ments from domestic producers. try to an
Fazal Mohammed & Sons; The tion of Hindustan Machine Tools important
Indian Sewing Machine Manu- (HMT) in 1953 gave a big fillip to Exhibitions – the next position in
the world.
facturing Company Ltd; The Cli- the Machine Tool Industry and big step
max Engineering Company; and in the following year the Integral When all was said and done,
The Sind Engineering Works. Coach Factory in Perambur, elec- there was still more to do. The
The First Annual General Meet- tronics factory in Bangalore and next big step was to bring the In-

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