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Victor Gaskets India ranks among the best-known names in India’s auto component industry. The Company manufactures gaskets and heat shields for a variety of applications - automotive, industrial, agricultural, refrigeration and stationary engines - and is recognized as a high quality sealing technology supplier to both the Original Equipment Manufacturers as well as the Replacement Market in India and abroad. An Anand Company, Victor Gaskets India is ISO/TS16949 certified and was the first Indian company to get the ISO 9002 certification for gaskets as far back as 1993. One of the unique firsts is in exiting out of asbestos based materials.
The Company has absorbed technical know how from Hamamatsu Corporation , Japan in the area of coating rubber on stainless steel. The company’s R&D activities have independently developed know how & know why for cylinder head gaskets in non asbestos composites and in multilayer steel constructions. In the area of secondary gaskets the company has developed competence in a variety of constructions and designs – rubber coated embossed steel, multilayered stainless steel, elastomer moulded on the edge of metal, variety of non asbestos grades. The company works very closely with raw material manufacturers – stainless steel, aluminum coated steel, cold rolled steel, non asbestos beater, flexible graphite, moulded rubber as part of its strategy in supply chain management.
The manufacturing operations of Victor Gaskets India commenced in 1962 in Mumbai. In 1972, the facility was relocated to Nashik and in 1998 to Chakan, near Pune. Today the facility caters to the requirements of its OE customers on JIT/kanban basis.
In 2001, with the implementation of the Scheme of Arrangement for demerger, the Gasket business of the erstwhile Perfect Circle Victor Limited was transferred to the new Company - Victor Gaskets India Limited.
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