Women in manufacturing: How companies are driving mammoth change
According to Anya Geraldine D’souza, GM – Global Marketing, ELGi Equipments, several barriers make women feel the manufacturing industry is ‘not for them’. “However, women must look beyond the general perceptions and rid themselves of the misconceptions that bear no semblance to the modern, innovative, technically advanced manufacturing operations of today,” she said.
Elgi Equipments charts mid-term plan to achieve $400 m revenue by FY26
Elgi Equipments Ltd, a leading global air compressor manufacturer, is in the process of rolling out its strategic business plan (SBP) with a revenue target of $400 million to be achieved in the next five years, up from about $258 million in FY20.
Improving Energy Cost Savings with Variable Speed Compressors
If the airflow demand is varying for a significant duration in a shift between a minimum and maximum flow capacity, a variable speed compressor will be the ideal choice.
One of the important decisions to make while investing in a compressor is to decide whether a production facility needs a fixed speed or a variable speed compressor. Typically, energy cost contributes to more than 75% of the total life cycle cost of a compressor. Appropriate selection of compressors will result in optimal energy utilization thereby reducing energy costs significantly for the user.
Top HR trends which will shape the future of work
2020 has made irreversible changes in our lives and businesses. No one could have predicted the disruption that the pandemic has caused. COVID-19 has propelled the field of HR forward reversing some trends, making big shifts, and most significantly creating an opportunity for rethinking and resetting how we design work practices that best serve all employees, our companies, and each other.
Effective HR Trends for 2021
The solution will not lie in returning to pre-COVID working practices. Instead, there will be a heightened focus on how to enhance collaboration, culture, and innovation, while fostering a greater sense of belonging and accommodating individual styles, personalities, and team dynamics.
Contaminant-free compressed air & challenges of lower life cycle cost in operations
On a recent visit to one of the production sites of a major global drinks manufacturer, I was taken aback to learn of the complexity and seriousness of their approach to ensuring oil-free air.
Mr. Rajesh Premchandran’s email interview with Mr. Shipranshu Pandey
ELGi’s aspiration to become no. 2 in the global air compressor business led to us building our own technology, infrastructure, people and processes to achieve long term goals. Today, ELGi is possibly the only company in the world that makes its own air ends, pressure vessels, castings, motors, conducting complete machining and compressor assembly.
Elgi sees faster recovery in firm’s markets
Air compressor manufacturer Elgi Equipments expects domestic and international markets to have equal contribution to its business in the second half of the financial year.
Addressing fourth utility of pharma installations
For a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant, compressed air is one of the utilities of absolute priority
Building Gender Diversity in Manufacturing
RJ: From a small reciprocating air compressor manufacturer in the 1960s, today, ELGi is a global player in the compressed air market. At ELGi, our aspiration is christened “Conquer K-2 (CK2)” – detailing our aspiration to be no. 2 in the Global Air Compressor Market by 2027.