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COMPANY PROFILE


Voltas is India's largest supplier of engineering products and services for the textile machinery
sector and is a major manufacturer of forklift trucks. It provides solutions in turnkey pumping
projects for water, effluent and sewage treatment, and water pollution control. The company
has ISO 9001-2000 certification and has executed projects in the Middle East, Southeast Asia,
Central Asia, Africa and Europe.


Historical Background of the company



Voltas Limited is an engineering, air conditioning and refrigeration company based in
Mumbai, India. It offers engineering solutions for a wide spectrum of industries in areas such
as heating, ventilation and air conditioning, refrigeration, electro-mechanical projects, textile
machinery, machine tools, mining and construction equipment, materials handling, water
management, building management systems, indoor air quality and chemicals. The company
has ISO 9001-2000 certification and has executed projects in the Middle East, Southeast Asia,
Central Asia, Africa and Europe.



Voltas is a part of the Tata Group. The Chairman of Voltas is Ishaat Hussein. The managing
director is A. Soni. Its shares are traded on the Bombay Stock Exchange under symbol 500575.
Its 2008 sales were 40,70,25,00,000 rupees.



The Company was incorporated on 6th September, 1954 at Mumbai. . The Company was
promoted in 1954 by M/s. Volkart Brothers and Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd., to take over the
Engineering & Import Division of M/s. Volkart Brothers in India. Corporate Headquarters is at
Voltas House, "A" Block, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Road, Chinchpokli, Mumbai 400 033,
Maharastra. The Company's manufacturing activities were originally carried on at its factory at
Chinchpokli, Mumbai and covered air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment mining,
electrical and agricultural equipment.




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The Company's distribution organization is divided into two main
groups - `Engineering' and
`Marketing'.



The marketing group consists of two main divisions, one dealing in
drugs, pharmaceuticals and
consumer products and the other in chemicals and vitamins. The
Company deals in foreign as
well as indigenous products, besides marketing its own products.



The Company manufactures sale and distribution of a variety of
products in the engineering,
chemical and pharmaceutical industries such as agricultural,
earthmoving, air-conditioning and
refrigeration, textile machinery, machine tools, electrical and
mechanical equipments as well as
chemicals and pharmaceuticals.



The Company set up in Thane, Mumbai an up-to-date factory to
manufacture wide range of
air-conditioning and refrigeration and a range of mining equipments for
which the Company
had entered into collaboration with leading manufacturers abroad.
. Some of Voltas' collaborations are with:



Besseling, Netherland, for Controlled Atmosphere (CA) / Ultra
- Low Oxygen (ULO)
storage technology.

Bock - Germany, Refcomp - Italy and JE Hall - UK, for Semi -
Hermetic compressor

Costan of Italy, for Refrigerated Cabinet Display Units for
hyper market engineered
systems.

Dunham-Bush Incorporated (USA), for screw chillers

Hitachi Limited, Japan, for vapor absorption machines

MIDEA, China, for Variable Refrigerant flow Systems.

Ruks Engineering, Canada, for ozone engineered systems

Standard Refrigeration Company (USA), for direct expansion
chillers

Siemens Building Technologies (Asia-Pacific), for building
management systems

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