Balram mahendra Story

Dr. Balram Mahendra's Story

We started off serving the clients with the knowledge, experience and sincerity to provide engineering services in the industry and commerce and enable the clients to make more money and a higher quality of product with less cost through creativity engineering.

General Business Objective has been to make and sell quality products competitively, and to perform these functions at the lowest attainable cost consistent with the sound management policies, so as to return an adequate profit after taxes for services rendered. As a corollary objective the producer must be the low-cost producer of the products it offers for sale. The thrill and challenge enjoyed by fresh from the college unemployed engineer over 50 years ago is still what we are always willing to get involved with.

An old friend, observing with not a little amusement, the educated unemployed metallurgical engineer having no business experience, gave us the first order. Perhaps he liked the name mecanico coined & originated by us. A well wisher rented us a small office accommodation with lot of hydrated lime dust all around - a good face powder.

A lofty optimism ruled the day but our ambition, while vast, was wholly untempered by experience. Perhaps it was just as well. We plunged in where the angels would have stepped back hastily.

The post war era was soon upon us. Brave new words had entered the language. Clearly one had to seize the future. Our president Dr. Mahendra emptied the corporate bank account and set off on an odyssey of the west.

Dr. Balram K. Mahendra Ph. D. flew from one city to another visiting some 139 cities in the U. S. A., Canada, Mexico, U K, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Netherlands, Lebanon, Kuwait, Greece and Egypt. It was nearly as difficult as getting away with the Crown Jewels.

For 24 weeks Mr. Mahendra cooled his heels in a winter of record breaking severity. With 36 cms. of snowfall in New York, being locked for 3 days in hotel Waldorf Astoria, not able to move out on account of snow blockade, was an experience. Dr. Mahendra returned laden with useful contacts. The rest of the organsiation received him, took one look at his shopping bag and grinned.

We were on our way . . .

A few intrepid souls had cast their lot with Dr. Mahendra in those early years. Talented men . . . wholly committed to our organisation. Ready to begin their careers on a hundred rupees a month. They have guided the company through over fifty years and three decisive phases.

Dr. Mahendra has been member of Indian Economic Mission sponsored by the Government of India. He has been invited by the Governments of U. S. A., Belgium and Italy. He has been United Nation Fellow in Africa. Dr Mahendra has been Honorary Secretary of Indian Institute of Metals Delhi Chapter for seven years from the very inception and received award from Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister of Government of India with citation for having founded several metallurgical and engineering firms.

Dr. Mahendra reported on the establishment of Aluminium Industry in Central India at a cost of over Rs. 230 million (U.S. Dollars 32 million) and projected integrated Pulp and Paper Project to manufacturer 18, 000 tonnes of Writing and Printing Paper at a cost of Rs. 70 million (U.S. Dollars 9 million).

Dr. Mahendra is undertaking new projects to manufacture various products in India and abroad. In the first decade our organization created the designs for production and garnered the experience to range across the entire spectrum of complete Industrial Plants and Equipment for the fast expanding industries.

In the next ten years we diversified into design and manufacture of Aluminium and Steel Windows and Doors, Furniture, Hardware and Fittings and other Architectural Requisites.