India, a significant market for future expansion
Atlas Copco India Ltd. is a leading name in the industrial solutions market. Over the years, the group has expanded into a wide range of sustainable markets, including general engineering, manufacturing and process industries, oil and gas, construction, automotive, mining and electronics. It serves customers in more than 180 countries with products and services focused on productivity, energy efficiency, safety and ergonomics. The employee count goes up to a striking 45,000 as at the end of December 2017.
The group is known for its manufacturing and selling industrial gas and air compressors, dryers and filters, compressor parts, vacuum pumps, construction and demolition tools, including mobile compressors, and a lot more. The flawless operation model of the group is backed up by a nation-wide sales, distribution, and service network to ensure that products are running at maximum efficiency and minimum downtime at the customers’ sites.
Mr. Conrad Latham, General Manager for Atlas Copco Compressor Technique, who has spent two successful decades of his career with the group, highlights a few dynamics of this exemplary century-old success.
Last January witnessed a remarkable display of 33 technologies by Atlas Copco India in one of its exhibitions, while the variety of products continue to grow both in terms of quantity and quality. The group takes pride in its Research and Development efforts enabling it to be more innovative in its approach. Energy saving capacity of the products of these efforts is what differentiates it from its competitors.
The textile industry, over years of development, has witnessed a major shift from the oil-free screw technology to the oil-free turbo technology, and Atlas Copco takes pride not only in excelling in the manufacturing of these compressors but also the combined manufacture of both the technologies.
Centrifugal compressor technology is vital for those industries with large air demand, and the Atlas Group feels immense gratification in offering extremely energy-efficient solutions for such customers. There is a big drive to constantly remain competitive in the textile industry by reducing energy costs with the highest level of reliability. Atlas Copco understands this and has constantly developed its products and solutions to provide the market leading efficiency as well as after-sales support across the whole of India.
The Atlas Copco Group, of Swedish origin, caters to 180 countries worldwide, and following the US, China and Germany, India happens to be a very significant business site for the company with the total Atlas Copco India turnover of Rs. 3,500 crores. Following the recent formation of the new company, Epiroc, four verticals remain for the Atlas Copco Group here owing to the success factor, namely, compressor technique, industrial technique, power technique and the latest addition, the vacuum technique.
The compressor technique vertical involves various dimensions like oil-free air, industrial air, service, industrial vacuum and medical. The Atlas Copco plants are located in Chakan and Pune and they are used for manufacturing to meet both the local and overseas demands. Oil and gas compressors are sold to the entire Middle East through India. The different facilities cater to different industry segments.