Sanajit Lahiri, Managing Director, Static Hydraulic Pvt Ltd speaks  about the company’s expertise in oil hydraulic systems.

 

What is the total range of hydraulic products on offer?

 

Static Hydraulic has the expertise and exclusive experience in the ?eld of design, application engineering, manu-facturing, maintenance, modi?cation, commissioning and other allied jobs pertaining to oil hydraulic systems. These include a wide range of equip-ment such as: hydraulic power packs; hydraulic and pneumatic cylinders; hydraulic presses (up to 300 tonnes); hydraulic scissor lifts; hydraulic truck tipplers; hydraulic shearing machines; hydraulic shock absorber testing machines; hydraulic screw jacks; au-tomated car parking systems; compres-sion testing machines; bogie static load testing machines; helical coil spring testing machines; rail straightening presses; synchronised hydraulic coach lifters; portable filtering units; and hydraulic components and accessories.Apart from the above products, we also provide hydraulic training and certi?cation to clients.

 

What are the main application areas?

 

Static Hydraulic is well known for its matchless variety of tailor made power packs suiting to customers’ technical speci?cations. Our innova-tive and skilled engineers are experts in designing and manufacturing hydrau-lic power packs, cylinders, presses and SPMs according to changing trends of the industry at cost effective prices.Applications and key customers of hydraulic systems include: Defense Research Organisations. Ordinance Factory Boards; Indian Army, Navy and Air Force workshops; Indian Rail-ways; ports and ship building yards; steel, power and cement industries; industrial and machine tools applica-tions; paper, rubber and industrial furnaces; and mining and material handling, etc.

 

What is the USP of these products? Why should the customer opt for these when there are choices by the dozen?

 

Static Hydraulic manufactures tailor made products as per custom-ers’ requirements. These are either critical applications or having critical operational requirement. Our USP is the range of systems we have supplied for critical applications throughout the industry sector. We can design a simple hydraulic cylinder or the most complex hydraulic power pack for helicopter landing device or propulsion system of ships. We are a quality conscious company where utmost importance is given to manufacture industrial hydraulic products complying with current industry demands. The company has a team of sys-tem designers with years of experi-ence, highly skilled production team, inspection and testing professionals who possess complete knowledge of this ?eld. We are equipped with every resource necessary to meet customer expectation of quality and delivery.Besides all these, our prompt ser-vice is another aspect, which provides us with unique advantage over others.

 

Any breakthrough product launch that made a difference?

 

As mentioned above, two develop-ments stand out as ‘First to Build’ in India. These application developments have given us huge momentum and established us as a reputed brand. The ? rst is the helicopter handling device for naval vessels. We are the first company in India to have developed this system. Earlier the same was be-ing imported from Western Europe or USA by shipyards. The other is the pull back apparatus for Bofors guns. We are again, the ? rst to develop the system for the Indian Army. All the Bofors guns in India have our systems for testing their recoiling properties.

 

What are the future plans?

 

We did have some expansion plans, which we shall implement once the economic conditions start improving.We are looking forward to put an ultramodern hydraulic cylinder manu-facturing facility in Kolkata and also expand our existing facilities to meet the demands of 

the industry.