Disa India Ltd - Stock Valuation and Financial Performance

DISA India was incorporated in 1984 for manufacturing of modern foundry equipments. It is owned jointly by DISA Holding AG (based in Schaffhousen, Switzerland), DISA Holding A/S (based in Herlev, Denmark and the parent company of DISA Holding) and the Indian public.

It supplies complete foundry systems by integrating the DISA range of moulding machines and sand mixers with proper combination of sand plant equipments, surface treatment machineries, environmental control systems and conveying systems. It serves customers across the country with its three sales offices and two manufacturing plants.

DISA India Limited is head quartered in Bangalore, Karnataka State, South India, called silicon city of India. DISA India is a leading Foundry Machinery Manufacturer in India offering dependable process technology.

It is a part of DISA group, which is the leading supplier of foundry equipment and metal surface finishing systems, with a presence in more than 50 countries globally. DISA group was founded in the year 1900 and in the year 1937, its founder Georg Fischer started production of shot blast machines and from there started the success ctory of the group.

The manufacturing plant at Tumkur, Karnataka basically performs the activity of Manufacturing of Foundry Machinery and Shot Blast Machines and another plant at Hosakote, Karnataka manufactures Air Pollution Control Equipment. Sales offices are strategically located to cover customers in all parts of the country.These are at Bangalore, New Delhi, Kolkata and Pune.

DISA supplies a broad selection of services and products for manufacturing and machining components for the machinery industry, including plants for the production of cast components. In this branch, DISA can cover practically the entire manufacturing spectrum.

Shot blast systems, moreover, are em- ployed for mechanical descaling, or for shot peening of compo- nents subjected to high or alternating stress loads.

DISA India also represents General Kinematics, USA exclusively. It specialises in foundry equipment for casting handling and sand recovery.

Product range of the company include-

• Moulding- DISA offers solutions employing various moulding configurations - vertical moulding, horizontal moulding and matchplate moulding technology.it offers choice of the type and size of castings, according to the size of production runs, production facility requirements, and the amount of space available in the foundry.
• Sand technology- Modern sand technology begins with the specific treatment of used sand. It had an array of equipment to cover all stages of the process, such as cleaning, cooling, homogenizing and mixing, and also complete in-line and tower-type sand plants for all throughput capacities.In addition DISA India offers horizontal moulding machines like ARPA, sand plant equipment, sand coolers, mixers, vibratory equipment, control panel etc. for the local market.
• Shot blast system- solutions include modern blast cleaning systems for foundries (desanding, decoring and surface finishing of iron and light metal castings) and for mechanical descaling of semi-finished or finished products in all branches of the steel producing and manufacturing industries. Shot peening is also provided.
• Core technology- Core shooting machines, Core handling systems (Robot systems, deburring, core assembly, coating technology, core drying, transport systems), Core boxes, Core sand preparation and Auxiliary core manufacturing systems.

Future plans

DISA Holding has just started a 100 per cent owned R&D Centre called DISA Technologies Private Limited (DTPL) in Bangalore, which will work towards building competencies in India for providing engineering support to world-wide operations.A major spares distribution network is also planned in India, with a warehouse in Peenya in Bangalore. DTPL intends, at a later stage, to bring in manufacturing of the new range of products from overseas to India.