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23rd April 2015

Bharat Forge Awarded Best Pavilion in the Large Enterprise Category at Hannover Messe 2015

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor, Angela Merkel in talks with Baba Kalyani, Chairman & Managing Director, Bharat Forge during the joint walk at the industrial trade fair Hannover Messe in Germany

Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi and German Chancellor, Angela Merkel visit Bharat Forge booth at Hannover Messe Industrial Trade Fair

Bharat Forge, the world’s leading forging company, was one of the select few private Indian companies to showcase their strengths within the Make in India Pavilion at Hannover Messe. Bharat Forge booth at the Hannover Messe Industrial Trade Fair was visited by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi and German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.

On their visit, Mr. Baba Kalyani, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharat Forge showcased the technological capabilities that have been developed across industries to evolve as the World Leader in Forging Technology. He also apprised them about the new greenfield investments that t he company is making in the S tate of Saxony, Germany in building an innovation led high - technology aluminium forging facility largely catering to premium German and Global automotive customers.

Hon’ble Prime Minister of India recognized the company’s gro wing prominence in the Railways and Defence sectors in India. The German Chancellor was particularly impressed that Bharat Forge was the first Indian Automotive component manufacturer to invest in manufacturing facilities in Germany in the year 2003.

Bhara t Forge was also awarded the best Pavilion in the “Large Enterprise Category” at Make in India at Hannover Messe 2015.

Hannover Messe 2015 , the world’s leading trade fair for industrial technologies was recently held in Hannover, Germany and India was the partner country. The association was seen as an important step in furthering Indo – German ties and reflected the rene wed global confidence in the country. It also highlighted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious ‘Make in India’ project on a global platform.

About Bharat Forge

Bharat Forge Limited (BFL) is the flagship company of the USD 2.5 billion Kalyani Group and a global provider of high performance, innovative, safety & critical components and solutions to various industrial sectors including Automotive, Railways, Power, C onstruction & Mining, Aerospace, Marine and Oil & Gas. BFL today has largest repository of metallurgical knowledge in the region and offers full service supply capability to its geographically dispersed marquee customers from concept to product design, eng ineering, manufacturing, testing and validation. At the cusp of a breakout growth & transformation into an engineering conglomerate through its aggressive foray in capital goods and infrastructure sectors, BFL is committed to proactively expedite India’s t ransformation into a global economic powerhouse.