AJAX Engineering won the Green Factory of the Year award during the 11th Equipment India Awards 2023, which was held on October 12, 2023, at Shangri-La Eros, New Delhi. Presented by BKT, the event saw the top performers as winners in the respective award categories and rewarded for their remarkable achievements.

Shubhabrata Saha, MD and CEO, AJAX Engineering, collected the award on behalf of the company. Giving away the award were Pratap Padode, Founder and President, and Sumit Banerjee, Board of Directors, First Construction Council.

Being an environmentally conscious company since its inception, the AJAX brand apart from its quality management system (QMS) ISO 9001:2015 has also been certified for its environmental management system (EMS) ISO 14001:2015. Over the last three decades, the need for energy efficiency, higher productivity, easy mobility, and flexibility has been the company’s focus to meet growing customer needs. AJAX works on a CAT Engine with biodiesel.

The company has adopted renewable energy sources to power its manufacturing facilities. AJAX has set up a rooftop solar PV plant of 599 KWP dedicated to generating electricity using solar energy on an average of 77,000 units per month. This results in reducing the carbon footprint by 654 tonne, which is equal to 9,814 trees being planted.

The 11th Equipment India Awards 2023 recognised and rewarded eleven winners in the Bestseller product categories. The winners were Ammann India for Asphalt Finishers; JCB India for Backhoe Loaders; CASE Construction India for Compaction Equipment; Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery for Mini Excavators and Crawler Excavators; Action Construction Equipment for Mobile Cranes and Tower Cranes; Doosan Bobcat India for Skid-Steer Loaders; LiuGong India for Wheeled Loaders; and Caterpillar India for Rigid Dump Trucks and Motor Graders.

Apart from this, the event also saw six awards given in the emerging bestseller categories. Sany Heavy Industry India bagged three awards – for crawler cranes, truck cranes and piling rigs. Schwing Stetter India won two awards – for concrete pumps and batching plants. Ammann India won for the asphalt plants category.

The winner of the nominated Trainer of the Year category was Schwing Stetter India. Best Innovation awards were given to Terex India for their product Powerscreen Pulse Telematic System, and Schwing Stetter for TSR EV shotcrete pump. Case Construction bagged the CSR Company of the Year award.

Dimitrov Krishnan, Managing Director, Volvo Construction Equipment India, was unanimously chosen by the Jury Panel for the Equipment India Person of the Year 2023 for his remarkable achievements over the years that have propelled both his organisation and the industry. 

BKT presented the 11th Equipment India Awards. Platinum sponsors were Timken India and Bonfiglioli Transmissions; the Equipment Sponsor was Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery; and Associate Sponsors were Action Construction Equipment, Caterpillar India, Case Construction, Gulf Oil, and Schwing Stetter India.

The selection process of the winners was highly transparent; an expert jury panel of the most eminent industry players vetted the findings of the First Construction Council and Equipment India and then signed off on the winners.