BHARAT FRITZ WERNER (BFW), THE LEADING manufacturer of machine tools, has announced a major facility expansion recently for its Hosur and Bengaluru locations to attain the enhanced market demand. The foundation stone laying ceremony was held in Hosur on October 23, 2017.
Arun Kothari, chairman of Kothari Group; Shailesh Sheth, director, BFW; and Ravi Raghavan, MD & CEO, BFW, commemorated the ceremony in the presence of the BFW leadership team.
The first phase will be spread across 30,000m2 which will include significant numbers of modern mother machines to enable integration of existing foundry facility with machining capability. The second phase will expand to 60,000m2. Once operational, these facilities will double the machine building capacity of BFW.
Coming within a week of BFW’s 56th anniversary, Ravi Raghavan, MD & CEO, BFW, said, “This expansion
represents our enhanced commitment to enable progress of our manufacturing clients who continue to remain the purpose of our existence and stay at the nucleus of our every initiative.”