Speaking on the journey of the company over the years, Sandip Chakroborty, Managing Director, JCBL, said, “Our south plant came up in 2008 and we started as an OEM supplier to Volvo India commercials. We were specialising in mining tippers, and then over time, we became suppliers to Ashok Leyland for their tippers. We also started supplying other applications like trailers, tip trailers and petroleum tankers. Eventually, in 2017, we started working with Daimler India Commercials for tipper applications. With around just 50-60 tipper bodies a month, we have come to manufacturing 450-500 tipper bodies. We probably have the largest business share as far as Daimler and Ashok Leyland businesses are concerned.”

He added, “The size of the M&HCV segment that we cater for Daimler is around 35 to 40 per cent and for Ashok Leyland, it is around 25 to 30 per cent in our applications. There are other bodybuilding suppliers who are doing the smaller tipper bodies which we don’t produce. For example, somebody else produces small vehicle applications like ecomet for Ashok Leyland. We majorly do tipper bodies in bigger sizes, anything over 10.5 and 16 cubic meters. We specialise in bigger size tippers and are the largest manufacturer for Ashok Leyland in terms of their 29 cubic meter tipper application.”