Miven Machine Tools Ltd Company Summary

Miven Machine Tools Limited, formerly Giddings & Lewis India Limited originally promoted by Mysore Kirloskar in 1985 to manufacture turning machines completely came into the fold of Foreign partner by acquiring a 38% equity stake of Mysore Kirloskars, the Indian Promoters. Subsequent to increasing the stake to 76% by foreign promoters, the name of the Company was changed to Giddings & Lewis India Limited from Kirloskar Waner Swasey in July 23, 1999. Later N A Sirur(Hubli) Pvt Ltd, the Holding Company presently acquired 74.98% Equity Shares of the Company and the name of the Company was changed to Miven Machine Tools Limited on July 23, 2002.

The Companys product line includes universal CNC turning machines, CNC chucker machines, small CNC machines and special-purpose CNC machines. The company came out with a public issue in Nov.86 to set up a machine tool unit in Karnataka to manufacture 62 computer numerically controlled (CNC) turning machines pa. Due to accumulated losses, the companys debt-equity ratio was 5.4:1 in Mar.89.

To defuse the crisis, the company came out with a liberal rights issue in the ratio of 1:1 to raise the equity. The companys clientele includes Bharat Forge, Premier Automobiles, Escorts Tractors, BEML, Hindustan Motors, Audco (I), the ordnance factory project, heavy vehicle factories, etc. The company has developed a new CNC chucker called ORION series, it is also developing a cost effective vertical axis turning machine.It has deputed its engineers to Fadal Engineering Company, USA for technical training on vertical machining centre (VMC).

The company propose diversifying into manufacture of co-ordinate measuring machines (CMM) with Giddings & Lewis as a joint partner, with a 100% buy-back arrangement to sell this product in global market.The Company suffered a setback during the financial year 2015-16 and incurred a loss.