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Committed to stainless
Kundan Industries Ltd, Vasai and Mumbai
India’s Kundan Group has specialised in stainless steel fasteners since 1978 and supplies domestic automotive OEM’s and engineering
sectors, as well as distributing through a dealer network. It remains a closed family owned business with 2006-2007 reported turnover of
Rupees 800 million (around 12 million euros).
The Kundan corporate office is in Mumbai. Manufacturing is located at Vasai, 30 kilometres north of the city, where multi-station cold forging
automatic machines, thread rolling, tapping, trimming, and secondary operation machines are all housed under one roof. Kundan also has an
in-house tool room. Current production capacity is 500 metric tonnes per month, which the company says is “likely to be double by the end of
2009 under a vertical expansion plan.”
Kundan exports to across the globe,
winning the Engineering Export Promotion
Council award for export excellence for the
five years 1995-2000 and more recently in
2006.
The company attained ISO TS 16949
certification in February 2006 awarded by
DNV Netherlands, earlier having gained
ISO 9002 and QS 9000 quality standards.
The company has in-house physical and chemical testing facilities, including a salt spray chamber for corrosion testing. It emphasises that critical
parameters are checked on-line with a final inspection before dispatch. Production is in a wide range of stainless grades including austenitic (304,
316, 310, precipitation hardened alloys for heat zones) and martensitic (410) to international norms including ISO, DIN, JIS, ASTM and BS. Size
capability ranges from 1.4mm to 36mm diameter, lengths from 4mm to 250mm. Products include Hex bolts and socket screws, nuts, studs, screws,
rivets, carriage bolts and nylon insert nuts. The company also makes self tapping, self drilling and thread forming screws, and cage nuts, as well as
designed and security fasteners.
Kundan takes considerable pride in its own R&D centre, which it says is “dedicated for continuous innovative developments and has supported us
to lead in OEM’s business and growth for our company”. A specific area of innovation is the development of high strength fasteners in austenitic
stainless steel equivalent to 8.8 class. This program is marketed under the KUN 80 brand, with a claimed tensile strength between 80-100 kgf/mm
2
for which European test reports are offered on request. Kundan also offers high corrosion passivation for these fasteners to further extend corrosion
resistance. Other developments include high gloss aesthetic stainless steel fasteners (replacing Ni/Cr) and a black high corrosion stainless steel
fastener, which is said to offer longer lasting aesthetics as well as greater corrosion resistance than Black Zinc.
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