Four decades of metalwork global OEMs rely on.

Precision sheet metal, weldments and complete assemblies, built to the customer's own drawing.

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In serial production for
  • JCB
  • Cummins
  • Hitachi Global Air Power
  • Wirtgen
Three Kelkar managers in hard hats and safety glasses examining the louvres on a finished blue enclosure panel in the plant

Run by the same family for 40 years.

A stable, long-term supplier: same owners, same management, same standards.

The founder is still the Managing Director, and his family still runs the company. Approve Kelkar once and you are dealing with the same people on your next programme, and the one after that.

Founded 1986Arvind Kelkar — Founder & Managing DirectorPune, Maharashtra, India

Two directors. 93 years of combined experience.

Your parts are the direct responsibility of a company director, not a department manager.

Decisions about your parts are taken at director level, inside the company that makes them.

Abhay Ranade, Director of Operations and Quality, in a light blazer beside a large fabricated weldment on the plant floor

Abhay Ranade

Director — Operations & Quality

Anand Kelkar, Director of Finance, Purchase and Projects, in a dark checked blazer on a walkway above the plant floor

Anand Kelkar

Director — Finance, Purchase & Projects

A team of over 530. Every skill in-house.

Designers, engineers, welders, fabricators and finishers, all employed by Kelkar.

The Kelkar team assembled outside the plant, more than twenty-five people in company shirts

Your part is drawn, cut, formed, welded, coated and assembled. At most suppliers some of that work is bought in from someone else. At Kelkar every step is done by our own employees, on our own site, so one company answers for the part from the drawing to the loading bay.

More than seventy-five of the team work in design and engineering, turning a customer's drawing into a part that is ready to make.

  • A veteran welder with his helmet raised and a younger colleague reading a finished weld seam together on a heavy fabricated frame
    Welding
  • Two engineers at a workstation reviewing a three-dimensional model of a fabricated bracket assembly on screen
    Design & engineering
  • Members of the team standing with finished enclosures and fabricated frames in the yard outside the plant
    Finished assemblies

Three commitments you can hold us to.

Chosen by the directors, published unedited, and open to be judged on.

A customer base spread on purpose.

Deliberate Customer Diversification is one of four principles the directors run the company on.

Naming it as a principle makes it a standing decision the directors carry. Kelkar describes itself as a trusted supplier with long-standing relationships based on ethical business practices, and a customer base widened on purpose is what leaves room for the next one.

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Members of the Kelkar team reviewing drawings together at the office

The partner your programme can be built on.

An engineer reviews your drawing, inside the company that will build it.

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