Milestones

Array of solutions under “BFW Health” product platform to empower medical and healthcare industry with Made In India technologies and solutions.
~ Introduced BFW Health Products
~ Introduced BAMPL (Advanced Manufacturing Unit for high precision components)

Industry 4.0 and Automation Solutions by m2nxt, Announced a wholly owned Subsidiary m2nxt Solutions for Smart manufacturing.

BFW began 2016 by establishing the Dr. Kalam Center of Innovation, inaugurated in February 2016 by Mr. A S Kiran Kumar, Chairman ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) in the august presence of Mr. APJ Abdul Saleem – the grandnephew of our beloved late former President – Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam.

In 2015, BFW took on a new brand identity reflecting a more contemporary image. The latter half of the year saw BFW establish the most comprehensive product range in Heavy-duty Turning Centers on offer in the Indian industry, through acquisition of the Turning Products range of Chennai-based Proteck.

In 2010, BFW arrived as the prime contender in India to supply integrated automation solutions, by supplying one such solution for ‘glass bottle handling’ to Hindustan National Glass & Industries. This year also saw the supply of Specialized GPMs (General Purpose Machines) for KB Engine cylinder block machining to Maruti Udyog Limited.

The latter part of the 90s saw BFW manufacturing high-speed machining centers. With the demand, BFW machines arise in 2000s, and branch out into several new product lines such as Double Column VMCs (Vertical Machining Centers), High-speed VMCs, Vertical Turret Lathes (VTLs), and 5-axis VMCs & HMCs.

BFW has a full-fledged foundry at Hosur. The foundry is equipped with furnaces, shot blasting equipment, sand mixing and reclamation machinery, and an in-house laboratory. The foundry produces up to 600 tonnes of grey iron, SG iron and NiHard castings every month.

The early 90s saw BFW become a serious SPM manufacturer and the year 1993 saw BFW supply its first cylinder block & cylinder head transfer line to Simpson-Perkins. Subsequently in 1996, BFW started supplying machines to Maruti Udyog Limited, which in those days was India’s largest automobile manufacturer

When CNC machining technologies were introduced in the country, BFW was one of the earliest implementers of this technology. Soon enough, BFW saw the export of 16 Horizontal Machining Centers (HMCs) to USSR in 1987. and in the year 1989, BFW exported 135 milling machines to USSR.

BFW was also one of the earliest companies to see benefits in the research & development of machining and machine tool technologies in the early 1980s. On account of its stellar efforts on this front, the BFW R&D facility received formal approval from the Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India in 1985.

BFW was one of the earliest exporters of machine tools and saw record exports of its products – 160 milling machines to erstwhile USSR (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics) in the year 1983.

The company’s products gradually gained acceptance in the Indian market, and BFW saw its first bulk machine order execution in 1979. It was a large export order of 25 machines to the Tata Government Tech Center in Jurong, Singapore.

BFW soon branched out into the production & supply of Special Purpose Machines (SPM) with the SPM supplied to the then Mico Bosch Limited in the year 1970.

Bharat Fritz Werner (BFW) began its journey in 1961. Its first product were knee-type milling machines. These products were manufactured in technical collaboration with Fritz Werner Werkzeugmaschinen GmBH of then West Germany. In those days, Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT) was the only other Machine Tool Manufacturer in India. Most of the demand for machine tools was catered to by imports.