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Solitaire Machine Tools Ltd.

Success isn’t always
about greatness. It’s
about consistency. ASHOK J. SHETH
Chairman
Consistent hard work
leads to success.

Focusing on

Centerless Grinders

heth family was basically focused on education and the all four brothers
became engineers led by eldest brother, Prafull, who is also the founder
Sof Solitaire Machine Tools Ltd.

My Formative Years : I was the youngest in the family and had everyone
in the family supporting as well as encouraging studying and learning.
Childhood was uneventful and always dreamed to be an engineer like my
brothers.
The schooling was completed in Mumbai and graduated from high school
at the age of 15. After two years of college, I was sent to USA to pursue
mechanical engineering in 1964, completed the BS degree in 1968 and
returned to India soon thereafter.
The first and most important assignment was to work in the family owned
small manufacturing unit, Ace Tools Pvt. Ltd. in Nashik. The unit manufactured
some of the import substitute precision tool holders for machine tool industry.
All tool holders were manufactured to the standards of the US- based
company, who had provided technical know-how. The initial learning of

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