Started in a humble way in 1960, ELGi Equipments has today transformed to become the seventh largest compressor manufacturer world over, with business presence in over 70 countries. The company has now set its ambitious goal of becoming the Number Two compressor manufacturer globally in a decade. In the last four years, after the completion and working of its sprawling 2,00,000 sq ft facility at the Kodangipalayam village in Coimbatore, ELGi can proudly claim that the foundation to reach its goal has been well laid.

Anvar Jay Varadaraj, Senior Manager – Marketing & Corporate Communications, elaborates on the company’s approach, “Our mission is to establish the ELGi brand. Today with many companies giving technical details and characteristics of their products, we focus on a content-driven approach. The compressor works in the background, and the challenge is to make the customer understand how important are its reliability, power conservation, etc.”

A Facility of Global Standards

ELGi has two factories in Coimbatore – the 20,000 sqm Singanallur facility for the final assembly line, and the Kodangipalayam facility, which includes the airends plant and the foundry. The young Kodangipalayam facility has technologically advanced imported machine tools to ensure the highest accuracy and quality standards. Recently ELGi has also started developing its own machines-for profile milling, grinding and polishing. This is aimed at bringing down the manufacturing cost without compromise on quality.