Hydraulics Center in India

This is for all hydraulics purchasers looking for outsourcing opportunities in ‘low cost’ places. Keep reading. It starts out quite boring, but towards the end things get interesting for you ;-)

My ‘Wikipedia’ addiction made me read the article on Belgaum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgaum). As many of you may be unaware; Belgaum is a city in India. It is in between Mumbai and Bangalore (distance to both metropoles around 500 km). Wikipedia does not tell us which state, Maharashtra or Karnataka, received permission from the Supreme Court to call Belgaum its own (so in order not to hurt anyone’s feelings, I will not tell you in which state it is located). And it is partly this border dispute stopping developments, investments etc. in Belgaum. At least, that is what the ‘local Belgaumers’ told us. We were visiting in August last year.
My traveling partner noticed the deterioration of the infrastructure. Since he has been traveling to Belgaum regularly in the last 10 years, I decided to believe him (rather than the rather ‘upbeat’ wikipedia profile).

Even though this may all sound slightly pessimistic, to some even unfriendly, there are definitely interesting companies and people to find. Especially if you are in the hydraulics sector. Belgaum has a huge quantity of hydraulics producers.

Once a long time ago, there was only one hydraulics company in the area, named Bemco Hydraulics. Then somebody left Bemco and started his own company. Another person left Bemco to start his own company. Somebody left that company etc. And at this point we lost count.

We at CoSourcers (http://www.cosourcers.com/) know around 20 of these companies, and we know them inside out, at least the ones that are worth knowing inside out. So just send us your specifications, drawings and we will set you up with the company best serving your needs.
Prefer to talk to them directly, well you have the chance to talk to one of them in Milano next week. If you travel to the Fluidtrans exhibition (and you will if you buy hydraulics) pay a visit to Hall 13, Stand P09 / R10. You will find Mr. Dilip Chitnis of Hyloc (one of our ‘pearls’ from the Belgaum area). Look for the man with the same ‘friendly’ face as on the top picture of this link; http://www.hyloc.co.in/management.htm. Full of pride he will show you his beautifully looking zinc nickel plated exhibits and tell you all about his production capacity.