The plant is the first of many such dedicated facilities Azad Engineering plans to building to meet growing demand of its global OEM partners. 

Precision engineering firm Azad Engineering has opened an exclusive lean manufacturing facility for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) at Tunikibollaram, Hyderabad.

The 7,200 sq. mts. facility currently employs 200 skilled professionals, and several hundred more professionals will be onboarded in near future. It features cutting-edge technology for high-precision components, and will serve and support the supply of highly engineered and complex rotating and stationary airfoils for advanced gas and thermal power turbine engines.

The facility will also integrate with Azad’s Centre for Excellence and Innovation, the Hyderabad-based company said on Wednesday following the inauguration in which Masahito Kataoka, Sr Senior V-P, GTCC Business Division, Energy System, MHI, Japan, Special Chief Secretary Industries and IT Jayesh Ranjan and others participated.

“This plant is the first of many dedicated facilities we are building to meet the growing demand of our global OEM partners and will employ over 2,000 highly skilled and trained manpower overall when all our dedicated facilities are operational in this Azad CoE and Innovation centre, Chairman and CEO Rakesh Chopdar said.

The setting up of the lean manufacturing facility is a milestone in Azad Engineering’s decade-long partnership that began with a few machines in 2012. Azad’s had on November 3, 2024, signed a Long-Term Contract & Price Agreement (LTCPA) with MHI, Japan.

Azad supplies crucial products essential for the manufacturing of MHI’s gas and steam turbines. MHI has presented the “Partner of the Year 2024” certificate and trophy to Azad Engineering, Mr. Kataoka said. Mr Ranjan said Azad continues to elevate India’s and Telangana’s status in the global precision engineering landscape.