Our dock levelers come with the most secure safety features.
All our products are designed and manufactured along with German collaboration using innovative and creative engineering technology, says Samir Gandhi, Director, Gandhi Automations. Excerpts from the interview...

Brief us on the core strength and competencies of Gandhi Automations?
Gandhi Automations is India?s leading entrance automations and loading bay equipment company. Over the years, we have learned the market trends in entrance automation and material handling industry and adapted to new challenges. This has resulted in we being an organisation offering world-class quality products along with the best of after-sales support. Currently, we are over Rs 100 crore company with more than 400 employees and present in more than 23 major cities in India. Our business acumen and model helped us achieve this significant growth over this tenure.

In an increasingly complex world, one key factor distinguishes a company?s ability to keep an edge over competition. By having the right quantity and quality of information and knowing how to use it, companies can simultaneously become more efficient and effective. Our current position has been achieved over the years of hard work, innovation, commitment to quality and reliable customer service.

What are the logistics solutions offered by Gandhi Automations?
Material handling and entrance automation has a key role to play in facilitating the quest for being truly world-class and ensuring a ?competitive advantage? for the Indian industry. Indian industry has started giving emphasis on the technological updates and industry norms. To address the need of user-friendly operations, material handling and entrance automation are the latest technologies. It provides ease of operation, swiftness and above all, security, the pre-requisite benchmark.

Tell us the unique features of dock levelers offered by Gandhi Automations. Our dock levelers come with the most secure safety features. They are built in conformity with the EN 1398. They are supplied with:

  • Platform and lip in almond anti-slip steel
  • Single-effect lift cylinder, double-effect lip cylinder
  • Safety stop in case of accidental departure of the vehicle
  • Maximum pressure valve
  • Side foot protection steel sheets
  • Rubber bumpers 300 mm x 55 mm x 60 mm
  • Wall console containing the whole drive unit and control, with low-level conduit protection, or motor underneath

Could you brief us on the manufacturing facilities and capacity?
All our products are designed and manufactured along with German collaboration using innovative and creative engineering technology. They conform to the highest safety standards complemented with reliability and energy efficiency. Our product engineering team uses the latest software combined with technologically advanced machinery to offer the customer an excellent engineered product. To ensure quality and operational efficiency, we have state-of-the-art manufacturing and warehouse facility of 3,00,000 sq ft near Bhiwandi.

How do you assess the competition in this field?
Gandhi Automations has become synonymous with quality and service excellence. Our core strength has been its product innovation and the latest technology. All our products are CE marked with the highest available safety standards. These are arguably the best products one can get in their respective segments with state-of-the-art technology and user-friendly features.

How do you view the future scenario?
India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world and is moving steadily on the path of global integration. In the past few years, a number of MNCs have started their set-ups in India and they have introduced Indian companies to the advantages of automation for entrances and material handling. As per government policies, it is mandatory in certain sectors across the industry to use automation.

Among other leading indicators, India is witnessing foreign trade growth, rising domestic consumer demand, infrastructure growth, industrial revival, capacity expansion and a significant pick up in manufacturing output and the capital goods sector. Realisation is fast setting in that India?s future cannot depend simply on being the ?back office? of the world.