Precision capability The Maini Group is an India-based global business that works across markets to deliver high precision, high quality solutions to a range of industries including AUTOMOTIVE, AEROSPACE, MATERIAL HANDLING AND STORAGE AND ELECTRIC VEHICLES. Emma-Jane Batey spoke to MD Gautam Maini to learn more.
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he Maini Group tagline ‘Value delivered. Always’ has been carefully created to reflect the long-term dedication to QUALITY, RELIABILITY and VALUE. Having long sold itself on its capabilities rather than simply its products, the Maini Group is able to work across markets, with the common thread being its ability to deliver solutions. As one of India’s leading design and manufacturing companies, the Maini Group was founded in 1973 by Dr S. K Maini, whose devoted stewardship has seen the operation grow from one company with ten employees to a multi-unit group with 14 locations and over 1500 employees. Second generation Maini family member GAUTAM is
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today’s MD of the flagship company Maini Precision Products and he continues to harness the visionary approach of his father. Gautam Maini told Industry Europe, “My father, Dr S. K. Maini, was a visionary with a deep faith in India’s potential as a major industrial nation. He knew that with its people – the Indian workforce – given their due, this country could hold its own in product and service. He had a profound belief in the power of training, faith in ability, the need to learn from the best and then build something enduring and incomparable. The decades since have shown how truly farsighted he was and I am proud to continue this.”