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Established in the year 1937 at Japan, Makino India Pvt Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Makino Asia, Singapore. The company is the world leader in metal cutting and manufacturing technology, sale and export of machine tools, CAM systems, FMS, and other equipment. Makino's major product lines include Horizontal Machining Centres, Vertical Machining Centres, Graphite Machining centres, EDMs, Wire Cut EDMs, Module MMC, Turnkey Solution and other machine tooling along with System Engineering Services.
Makino India Pvt Ltd started in the year 1996 as a branch of Makino Asia, Singapore. The manufacturing facility and technology centre in Bangalore is the nerve centre of Indian operations. In an endeavour to be accessible to its customers, Makino has also setup a magnificient technology centre at Manesar, Gurgaon and Pune to sustain its commitment to serve the auto-industry better. Makino India delights its customers through supply of world class machining centres together with tooling up (fixtures + cutting tools) so that customers can enjoy total solution.
Speaking to CNCTimes on the sidelines of IMTEX 2015 at Bengaluru, the General Manager of Makino India, Mr VS Brahma Prakash said, “We are participating in the IMTEX since the day Makino started its Indian operations. At the expo we talk about how we can contribute to the industry and ways to make Indian manufacturing sector self-sufficient. What we are proud of is the fact is most of the samples are manufactured in India by our expert application engineers which is unique in its true sense.”
As far as expectations from the exhibition is concerned, Mr Brahma Prakash said Makino is manufacturing machines for aerospace and medical sectors and these machines give a boost to these industries. Makino has been serving to part manufacturing, die and mould and aerospace sectors.
“We launched three machines in this IMTEX. We also launched N2 machine which is from Japan,” Mr Brahma Prakash said and added that Indian engineering sector is growing rapidly and is very positive as far as innovation in the technology is concerned. Even Indian economy is going at a good pace and inflation has been almost zero due to government policies and the industry is confident of reaping rich benefits.
Asked whether Indian market is price sensitive, he replied in both affirmative as well as negative. “It is yes and no. Yes for those who are looking for price and no for those looking for technology. But one thing is sure that consciousness among the buyers is changing and this is a good sign,” Mr Brahma Prakash said and concluded by saying that Makino India has certain plans for the future growth. “We would like to upgrade the technology besides coming up with 2-3 more technical centres in other parts of India in addition to the ones which we already have at Bengaluru, New Delhi, Pune and Coimbatore,” he said.