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incorporation. The products developed requirement, but also caters demands production in next four years,” forecast
cater to oil cleaning requirement for from customers in India and overseas. the company.
a wide range of diesel engines, right BAPL further diversified into building Value addition by way of machining,
from farm tractors to large marine of ‘make to print’ assemblies and integration of machined plastic and
engines. BAPL then diversified the use components from 2016. The capability rubber components and electronics
of centrifugal oil cleaners to other fluid of integration of various activities was using cast products as a base
cleaning applications like quenching oil, instrumental in this diversification. requirement is a major focus area for
heavy fuel oil, gear oil, thermic fluid, etc. BAPL now makes eight different the short-term goal.
BAPL started development of manual product assemblies catering to different Building of automated machines
and automated oil filtration units customers. for filtration and cleaning of various
catering for industrial fluid filtration. The industrial fluids is the third focus
company has established a good foot- Growth Plans avenue set by BAPL for the next five
print with reliable products serving the BAPL has set short-term and long- years.
industry. terms goals for the future and made BAPL is blessed with a team of
BAPL started its journey as a a concrete plan to achieve the goals. enthusiastic and hard working team
machine shop equipped with robust “We shall focus on growing the foundry members willing to take up challenges.
and reliable manually controlled capability in addition to the precision The company has developed a learning
machines. The company soon migrated machining capability for castings. We culture and wants to foster the
to the use of state-of-the-art CNC also plan to grow at least four times development and growth of its team
manufacturing technology for making the existing capacity and reach a members along with the growth of the
components used in the products. mark of 200 tons of finished castings organisation.
The need was felt to install a sheet
metal forming facility with deep-draw
capability. As the product-line grew, the
company invested in the sheet metal
forming setup in 2001.

Substantial Investment
The company invested in Aluminium
Gravity Die casting foundry in 2005
to satisfy its own demand of various
aluminium gravity die castings.
Hand-in-hand, capability to design
and manufacture GDC tooling was
also developed to make the foundry
setup self-reliant. Today BAPL casts
aluminium castings from 200 grams
to 22 kg, with a wide variety of
complicated geometries. BAPL now
supplies castings not only for captive

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