The Board of Directors of Federal-Mogul Goetze (India) Limited, a Tenneco Group company, approved a proposal on October 9, 2026, to add capacity at Bahadurgarh-Patiala (Punjab), Yelahanka-Bengaluru (Karnataka) and Bhiwadi (Rajasthan).
The investment required is ₹335.1 crore, to be financed through internal accruals, and the capacity is to be added within 18 months. The company cited growth in demand and improving its manufacturing footprint in India as the rationale.
The proposed additions are:
- Cast iron rings: 8.15 million rings
- Steel ring PVD: 5.04 million ring sets
- Pistons: 3.96 million pistons
- Engine valves: 3.24 million, from a new line
- Valve guides: 6 million
- Valve seats: 6 million
The company’s existing annualised capacity is 54 million cast iron rings, 19.2 million steel ring PVD sets, 21 million pistons, 124.92 million valve guides and 99.6 million valve seats. Annualised capacity utilisation is 100%.
The filing does not specify how the additions are split across the three locations.
Federal-Mogul Goetze (India) Limited was established as a joint venture with Goetze-Werke of Germany, and manufactures pistons and piston rings, among other automotive components, for two-, three- and four-wheelers in Indian and international markets.
The company was incorporated in 1954 as Goetze (India) Limited and took its present name in May 2006. It operates as part of the Tenneco group, which completed its acquisition of the company’s ultimate holding company, Federal-Mogul LLC, on October 1, 2018.
Tenneco Inc. merged with Pegasus Merger Co., a subsidiary of Pegasus Holdings III, LLC, on November 17, 2022. For the quarter ended September 30, 2025, the company reported standalone revenue of ₹48,128 lakh and profit after tax of ₹5,112 lakh, equal to about 10.6 percent of revenue.
Financial data platform Screener lists the company as the second-largest player in India’s organised piston and piston rings market, with a share of about 29 percent.