While the overall market sentiments have improved in the recent times, the metal cutting industry is still struggling reap the benefits. Where are the challenges and what are you doing about the same?
One of the first and foremost challenges is the lack of business confidence amongst the manufacturer; people are still in a wait and watch mode as far as capital investment is concerned. However, we are witnessing slow but steady improvement in the mind set of potential buyers of metal cutting industry. Once the effect of the reform activities spread to the bottom level, fresh buying cycle will start. Slow down in China has also adversely affected our sentiments.

But, this phase looks temporary and we are sufficiently optimistic for a rejuvenated economy in near future.

How would you compare the major Indian machine tool players like yourself with the key international players operating in India? What advantages does Jyoti provide when it comes to serving Indian customers?
If we talk about Jyoti itself, we rank ourselves at a par with any of the international brand selling in India in terms of product offerings. However, Indian manufacturers have to thrive constantly on the quality, technology, aesthetics and, lastly but most importantly, reliability while comparing with foreign brands. When it comes to serving Indian customers we can proudly say that our after warranty cost to the customers is the cheapest amongst the peers. Further to that, timely and effective after sales services give us the edge over imported machines.

Currently what is your production capacity and how much are you utilising?
Our production capacity is almost 3600 machines to 4000+ machines per annum depending upon the variants to be produced. Due to the bit slow down of economy the plants are still under-utilised. Rather than expanding in the near future we are working on improving efficiencies of our manufacturing capacities across the units. 

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