Azad Engineering opens 7,600 sqm plant

Azad Engineering has opened a 7,600-square-metre lean manufacturing facility in Hyderabad dedicated to Baker Hughes’ industrial and energy technology programs. (firstindia.co.in) (economictimes.indiatimes.com) The plant sits inside Azad’s Centre of Excellence in Tunikibollaram, on Hyderabad’s industrial outskirts, and was inaugurated on April 23 by Telangana Industries and Information Technology Minister D. Sridhar Babu. (firstindia.co.in) (uniindia.com) Azad said the site was designed as a dedicated “plant-within-a-plant” for Baker Hughes, with production lines aimed at high-precision, high-volume work and staffed by about 230 skilled employees. (projectindustrialbuzz.com) (raksha-anirveda.com) The expansion adds to Azad’s push to win repeat work from large original equipment manufacturers that want traceable quality, validated processes and suppliers that can scale without shifting production between sites. (economictimes.indiatimes.com) (azad.in) For Baker Hughes, the Hyderabad unit gives it a dedicated Indian manufacturing base for parts used in its industrial and energy businesses, extending a supplier relationship into a more tightly integrated production setup. (firstindia.co.in) (economictimes.indiatimes.com) Azad says the partnership started in 2018 with supplies of critical rotating airfoils for gas and steam turbine finish stages, then expanded after years of raw-material approvals, process validation and product qualification. (firstindia.co.in) (economictimes.indiatimes.com) That commercial relationship was formalized further on March 12, 2024, when Azad disclosed a five-year strategic supply agreement with Baker Hughes for medium-to-high-complexity precision machined components for oilfield services. (azad.in) Recent reports in India said the new facility involved about ₹200 crore of investment and is Azad’s fourth dedicated plant, underscoring how one customer program can anchor a full manufacturing build-out. (msn.com) (economictimes.indiatimes.com) Azad’s own investor materials describe the company as a supplier of mission-critical precision components across aerospace, defense, energy and oil and gas, which helps explain why Baker Hughes would ring-fence capacity instead of buying from a general machine shop. (azad.in 1) (azad.in 2) The new Hyderabad plant closes that loop: a supplier relationship that began with turbine parts now has its own factory floor, workforce and production system inside Azad’s campus. (firstindia.co.in) (projectindustrialbuzz.com)