Wendt (India) Limited.

Profile

Wendt (India) Limited (WIL) was incorporated in 1980 as a Joint Venture between Wendt GmbH
( www.wendtgroup.com ) and The House of Khataus. In 1991, Carborundum Universal Ltd (CUMI), a US$ 3.0 Billion Murugappa Group Company ( www.murugappa.com ) acquired the Khatau’s stake in the business. Since then WIL has been a 40 - 40 Joint Venture between Wendt GmbH and CUMI. The public holds the balance 20% equity.

Wendt India is ranked among the Top 25 successful Indo-German JVs by the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce (IGCC).

Strategic Intent

“Wendt India seeks to become a significant global player in offering customized functionally superior products/services for Grinding and Machining Hard-to- Process materials”

Corporate Group

Wendt India draws its Technological Superiority from Wendt GmbH which is a part of Winterthur Technology Group (WTG ) Switzerland and Sound and Ethical Management practices from Murugappa Group.

While Wendt GmbH-the pioneers in Super abrasive tooling solutions and high precision grinding machines for Insert grinding and Steel industries for over 8 decades, the 100 year Murugappa Group is the market leader in diverse businesses such as Engineering, Abrasives, Finance, General Insurance, Cycles, Sugar, Farm Inputs, Fertilizers, Plantations, Bio-products and Nutraceuticals having 29 companies with manufacturing facilities spread across 13 states in India. The group is among the fastest growing diversified business houses in India.

Wendt India known for its diversified and impressive Product Portfolio , Innovation strategy, strong Product Development, Personalized technical services and providing Technology Solutions in Grinding to its 750+ direct customers in the domestic market.

Wendt India believes in direct sales to its customers who are serviced through highly trained application oriented sales engineers located in all major Industrial cities across India.

Exports constitute over 30% of Wendt India’s total business

Board of Directors

Mr. M. M. Murugappan - Chairman

Chairman of Tube Investments of India Limited
Director of Mahindra & Mahindra Limited
Infotech Enterprises Limited

Mr. Edmar Allitsch - Director

Managing Director Wendt GMBH
(Alternate Mr. Peter Verholen)

Mr. Shrinivas G Shirgurkar - Director

Managing Director of Ace Designers Limited

Mr. K. Srinivasan - Director

Managing Director of Carborundum Universal Limited

Mr. K. S. Shetty - Director

Managing Director of Taspa Tools Private Limited

Wendt Management Team

Mr. Rajesh Khanna - Chief Executive

Mr. Venkatesh M. S. - General Manager - Marketing

Mr. D. R. Kulkarni - General Manager - Technology

Mr. S. Sundariya - General Manager - Manufacturing

The Spirit of Wendt India

Integrity: We value professional and personal integrity above all else. We achieve our goals by being honest and straightforward with all our stakeholders. We earn trust with every action, every minute of every day.
Passion: We play to win. We have a healthy desire to stretch, to achieve personal goals and accelerate business growth. We strive constantly to improve and be energetic in everything that we do.
Quality: We take ownership of our work. We unfailingly meet high standards of quality in both what we do and the way we do it. We take pride in excellence.
Respect: We respect the dignity of every individual. We are open and transparent with each other. We inspire and enable people to achieve high standards and challenging goals. We provide everyone equal opportunities to progress and grow.
Responsibility: We are responsible corporate citizens. We believe we can help make a difference to our environment and change lives for the better. We will do this in a manner that benefits our size and also reflects our humility.

Values We Live By

One Vision, One goal
One team, One dream
Keep Up Commitment
Speed of Action
Open to Dialogue

Wendt Culture

Follow Code of Conduct in all our dealings
Respect for the individual
Performance and Result orientation
Positive Attitude
Open Communication & Information sharing
Concern for Environment
Concern for Safety and Cleanliness
Concern for Health
Faith and Trust

Wendt Best Practices

Common Uniform
Common Canteen, Washroom
No separate secretaries
No Overtime
Flexi hours/ Flexi days
Operational Flexibility
Multi Skilling
Self Directing Teams
10 Minutes 5S

Subsidiaries

Wendt Grinding Technologies Limited (WGTL)

To address the South East Asian markets, Wendt (India) Limited has established it's 100% owned subsidiary during the year 2005 - Wendt Grinding Technologies Limited., in Thailand.


	Key Management: Mr. Praveen Jaduvanshi - Head of Operations

Wendt Middle East FZE( WME)

Extrapolating the success of WGTL, to address Middle East market, the second subsidiary company was put up in the year 2008 – Wendt Middle East FZE, Sharjah in UAE.


	Key Management: Mr. Santosh P. Kulkarni - Head of Operations