
BRINGING ALIGNMENT TO A COMPANY’S GOAL & AN INDIVIDUAL’S GOAL
Dr Jairam Varadaraj, Managing Director, ELGi Equipments, one of the global leaders in providing sustainable compressed air solutions. In this confab with Juili Eklahare, Dr Varadaraj throws light on what made the company win the Deming prize, how it aligns individual goals with the company’s goals and explains its goal of becoming the world’s second-largest air compressor manufacturer & not the first. Excerpts…

Elgi’s Metrology dept gets NABL accreditation
Air compressor manufacturing major Elgi Equipment’s Metrology department has been accredited by NABL (National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories) for performance consistency of its 400+ compressed air systems.

Second edition of Elgi’s signature initiative takes off
If global climate change is an alarming reality, futuristic innovations would pave the way for an organisation’s performance and success. This is exactly what air compressor manufacturing major Elgi Equipments is striving to do — trying to make a difference by ensuring organisations reduce both energy dependence and emission, resulting in minimal impact on the environment.

‘Elgi’s international business will do better than domestic in near term’
In India it is a little difficult to predict now how the economy will bounce back: Managing Director

Elgi acquires Michigan Air Solutions
Elgi Compressors USA, a subsidiary of Elgi Equipments, has acquired Michigan Air Solutions in a move to expand its presence in the U.S. According to Jairam Varadaraj, MD of Elgi Equipments, this is an important step for the company to strengthen its position as a leading player in the global compressed air industry. The cost of acquisition is estimated to be approximately $6 million.

Hedging your bets: How globalisation can enable manufacturers to grow sustainably amid Covid
Companies that were able to conduct business globally, saw more revenue come in from overseas markets than India and thus experienced significantly lower disruptions in the revenues.

Sustainable, energy efficient compressed air solutions take centre stage at Elgi Tech Day
Elgi Equipments, which was in the news earlier this week for having acquired Michigan Air Solutions, has hosted its second Global Technology Day on the theme of ‘State of the Future Art’, in Coimbatore. The event saw participation from over 200 employees, academia, students from over 20 engineering colleges across India and industry thought leaders.

Onwards into the Future
When the global humanitarian and economic crisis that is COVID-19 unleashed its wrath across the world, individuals and companies, alike, had to change how they live and work, overnight. Here is a look at leveraging the precious lessons learnt

Elgi Equipments boosts capacity threefold to manufacture oxygen-plant compressors
Air-compressor manufacturer Elgi Equipments has increased the capacity to manufacture compressors for specific models of oxygen generation plants.

Elgi acquires Michigan Air Solutions
Elgi Compressors USA, Inc, a subsidiary of Coimbatore-headquartered Elgi Equipments Limited, a global supplier of compressed air solutions, on Tuesday announced its acquisition of Michigan Air Solutions, one of the largest independent air compressor distributors in Michigan, marking an important step that Elgi has taken to expand its presence in the US. The financial contours of the transaction were not divulged.