Timken eyes aviation market

Jamshedpur: Timken India Limited will soon start servicing helicopter bearings at its Jamshedpur plant.
The company’s managing director for India Gordon W. Robinson, who was in the city today, told The Telegraph that Timken was looking at aircraft business and taking steps to develop facilities for the same.
“We are focussing on the defence sector and trying to get orders for maintenance and servicing of helicopter gearboxes, apart from making bearings,” said Robinson during his brief stay at the Mercy Hospital in Baridih, where he had gone to donate art murals to the hospital administration.
He said the company was looking at opportunities in helicopters while the defence aviation was an area that could be tapped.
Timken’s parent company, US-based The Timken Company, manufactures helicopter gearboxes. Hence, providing the necessary servicing facility for helicopter bearings should not be difficult. Robinson also revealed that the company located at Bara is also coming up with a state-of-the-art bearing repair facility.
25/06/09 Pinaki Majumdar/The Telegraph

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