SKF opens new facility at Manesar

November 14, 2013: SKF India has inaugurated its new SKF Solution Factory at Manesar in Haryana, its second after its Pune plant. The Manesar facility will serve as the local unit and focus on spindle repair, reconditioning and maintenance services.It will serve automotive manufacturers, ancillary units and industrial machinery customers in the region with competencies across SKF’s five platforms and specific asset management and maintenance services.

Services that are the key businesses of SKF in India include machine development and design verification, remanufacturing to reconditioning, integrated maintenance solutions, training and remote diagnostics monitoring. The Manesar facility is key to SKF’s overall business plans to take SKF’s maintenance consulting and asset management services closer to customers, reducing time of delivery and speed of service deployment, complimenting SKF India’s leadership in the market.

“Today, most organizations are facing cost pressures on rising energy consumption, input costs and repair and maintenance costs. SKF Solution Factory is a unique global proposition through which we deliver our services combining SKF’s knowledge, experience and technology. Over the years we have seen a rising demand for our maintenance and asset management solutions and going forward we see this as one of the key drivers of growth in addition to our products,” said Shishir Joshipura, managing director and country head, SKF in India.

Sudhir Rege, director, South Asia – Regional Sales and Services, SKF, said: “SKF operates in a spectrum of industries and therefore is well equipped to understand that in today’s business environment, effectively managing assets throughout their lifecycle can deliver real term on-going value to reduce total cost of ownership. SKF Solution Factory combines SKF’s technology, global and local knowledge of machineries, equipments and experience across geographies and acts as the gateway to long term asset efficiency and reliability. The new facility at Manesar is a key step to deliver SKF knowledge to customers locally and focus on solutions in addition to products.”

SHOBHA MATHUR