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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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