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Our Milestones through the years
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1954 to 2023
1954 - 1963
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Incorporated as a joint venture between Carborundum Company, USA, Universal Grinding Wheel Company, UK and the Murugappa Group, India.
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Acquired a Coated Abrasives facility from Ajax Products Pvt Ltd.
Bonded Abrasives facility was set up in Chennai, India.
1964 - 1973
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Incorporated as a joint venture between Carborundum Company, USA, Universal Grinding Wheel Company, UK and the Murugappa Group, India.
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Established Brown Aluminium Oxide grains plant at Edappally, India.
Established Brown Aluminium Oxide grains plant at Edappally, India.
1974 - 1983
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Acquired Eastern Abrasives Ltd., a Coated Abrasives manufacturer in Kolkata, India.
Established MMTCL as a joint venture with Morgan Group plc. for ceramic fibres.
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Second Bonded Abrasives plant was set up at Hosur, near Bangalore, India.
1984 - 1993
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Bonded Abrasives plant at Hosur, India was expanded with a modern facility for vitrified grinding wheels.
Established the Industrial Ceramics plant at Hosur, India.
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Industrial Ceramics plant at Hosur, India.
Acquisition of 40% interest in Wendt (India) Ltd., which manufactures Super Abrasives.
1994 - 2003
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12 MW Hydel project at maniyur, kerala, India.
Acquired a controlling interest in Sterling Abrasives Ltd., Ahmedabad, India.
Established CUMI America Inc., USA & CUMI Australia Pty. Ltd
Acquired Prodorite Aniti-Corrosives Ltd., a leading player in anti-corrosion engineering.
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Second unit at Edapally for manufacture of Brown Aluminium Oxide grains.
Acquired a controlling interest in Cutfast Abrasive Tools Limited and Cutfast Polymers Limited and subsequent mergers.
Established a 5.5 MW natural gas based thermal power plant in Nallur, Tamilnadu, India through SEDCO.
Cloth processing facility at Maraimalainagar, Tamilnadu.
2004 - 2014
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Capital investment of about Rs. 4 billion for various modernization, expansion and projects for new product lines.
Establishment of a Modern Silicon Carbide Micro grit plant in Koratty and Cochin SEZ.
Establishment of state-of-the-art Coated Abrasives plant in Sriperumbudur,Metallised Cylinders plant in Hosur and Super Refractories plant II in Serkaddu,India
Establishment of manufacturing facility for thin wheels in Uttarkhand and Power Tools in Jigani, Bangalore.
Acquisition of Volzhsky Abrasive Works, Russia and acquisition of 51% holding in Foskor Zirconia(Pty) Ltd., South Africa.
Acquisition of Thukela Refractories Isithebe Pty Ltd, South Africa, a fused mineral manufacturing facility in South Africa.
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Automated thin wheel facility at Hosur and Chennai, India.
Establishment of a Modern Polymer manufacturing facility near Chennai.
Acquisition of monolithic Refractory facility in Jabalpur, India.
Establishment of CUMI Middle East & CUMI Canada Inc.
Commissioning of a modern 1000 tonne vitrified Bonded Abrasives plant and 2000 tonne organic Bonded Abrasives facility in China.
Establishment of Ceramic Foam Refractories Plant in Kochi, India in collaboration with Cellaris Ltd, Israel.
2014 - Now
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Maker 2.0 Coated Plant
Commissioned three fusion plants at its Electro-mineral Complex at Cochin, India
SiC Capacity expansion by VAW
Acquired Plus, Awuko, Rhodius
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Expansion of IC at Hosur - METZ 2.0 & 2.5
JIPM Award for Excellence in TPM Consistency/TPM Excellence, Category ’A’
Lined Equipment 2.0 Facility at Hosur
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