Western Heat & Forge: Global Supplier Of Forged, Machined, Turnkey & Tested Components

Sanjay Jindal

Managing Director

Sanjay Jindal

Managing Director

The forging market in India and the world is largely dependent on the Automotive Sector since greater than 50 percent of the global forging industry output goes to Automotive. For India, the automotive sector is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 11 percent over the next five years. Some of the other megatrends driving growth in the Industry are global supply chain diversification, China + 1 strategy, outsourcing, and large OEs shutting down high-cost component manufacturing plants and sourcing components from low/ best cost countries like India. Clients in this industry want 100 percent quality, competitive price, and on-time delivery.

WHF has been in business for over 40 years. The #1 objective at all levels of the company is an uncompromising focus on Quality. WHF was the 1st Company in the world to get API 20B and API 20C certified. These are critical certifications to supply to the Global Oil and Gas sector. "We have all other key certifications needed to serve our global customer base including IATF 16949, various ISO certifications, PED and NABL”, says Sanjay Jindal, Managing Director, WHF.

Operational Excellence
Unlike most forging companies in India, WHF serves very diversified customers, sectors, and geographies. Consequently, WHF has a bluechip global customer base that includes Schlumberger, NOV, Emerson, Rexnord, Dana, Wipro, L&T, Voith, and others.

“The wide variety of sectors served implies that we have a unique competency in working with a very wide variety of steels including carbon steels, alloy steels, Stainless Steel, duplex and super duplex SS and case carburizing and through hardening steels. Our key sectors include Oil and Gas, Wind and Solar energy, Construction Equipment, Valves, Railways, Defence and Automotive”, says the MD.

In terms of capabilities, WHF has a very wide range of forgings that include both Open Die and Closed Die forgings. This makes WHF a preferred supplier to customers since it is a one-stop-shop for the supply of a wide range of turnkey, tested, forged, machined, and coated components. The team at WHF is motivated and highly competent. The team’s competency lies in a deep understanding of Metallurgy and Metal forging, Heat Treatment, and Machining processes. WHF core team has been working with the company for over 12 years and it has low attrition rates. “A key differentiating point for us versus our competition is that we can supply turnkey, tested forged, machined and coated components under 1 roof. Our input is Steel which we buy directly from the Steel manufacturers globally and our output is turnkey, ready to assemble components”, states Sanjay.

WHF can offer Customers low lead times and 1st time right product development by using state-of-the-art software that enables us to simulate forgings on the desktop and then take it to the shop floor. WHF has a state-of-the art Metallurgy laboratory which is NABL certified. This is complemented with a modern Metrology lab for our machining activities.

The Singular Reason For Our Growth Is The Quality Services That We Deliver To Our Customers. Our Customers Keep Coming Back And Rewarding Us More Business And Motivating Us To Add More Value To The Products We Supply Them
Sanjay Jindal //Managing Director

Future Endeavours
The company was founded in 1982. With over 40 years of deep Industry knowledge and relationships, the company has grown in capacity and capability to meet the growing demands of the customers. “WHF fits very well in this changing market landscape. Our business is being driven both by exports (growth from 25 percent to 50 percent of our total sales) and by growth in our solid domestic customer base. We are on track to achieve Sales of Rs.250 crore this year and we project a growth rate of about 20 percent per year for the forseeable future, concludes the MD.