{"id":56195,"date":"2026-06-29T15:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialtelegraph.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/is-this-really-made-in-india-the-rajkot-manufacturer-rewriting-the-answer\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:40:15","slug":"is-this-really-made-in-india-the-rajkot-manufacturer-rewriting-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialtelegraph.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/is-this-really-made-in-india-the-rajkot-manufacturer-rewriting-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIs This Really Made in India?\u201d \u2013 The Rajkot Manufacturer Rewriting the Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maulik Shah took his forging company, Aditya Engimach, to one of the world\u2019s most exclusive forging exhibitions in Stuttgart.<\/em><\/p>\n

New Delhi [India], June 29:<\/strong> On the floor of CastForge in Stuttgart, the trade fair for castings, forgings, and machining that draws serious industrial buyers from across the globe, one question kept finding Maulik Shah. It was not about the price. It was about if the product is really made in India.<\/p>\n

Shah, the founder and managing director of Aditya Engimach, a precision forging company headquartered in Rajkot, says he heard it more than 10 times across three days. And each time, he watched the buyer study the product, asking about materials, methods, and process. \u201cWhat followed was respect for our craftsmen and workers back in Gujarat,\u201d he wrote afterward, in a LinkedIn post.<\/a><\/p>\n

It is a small moment. But for Shah, it is the whole point of why he was there.<\/p>\n

<\/a>A mission bigger than one company<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Aditya Engimach was not built on outside capital or inherited connections. Shah started it in 2010 from a single room and, over 16 years, grew it into a precision forging operation serving clients across multiple continents, supplying hot-forged, closed-die, and ring-rolled components for automotive, aerospace, energy, and heavy machinery. The company holds more than 15 certifications and approvals, among them AS9100, the aerospace and defence industry\u2019s internationally recognised quality standard.<\/p>\n

But ask Shah what he was really doing in Stuttgart, and the answer reaches well past one company\u2019s order book. He was, in his own framing, \u2018taking on a prejudice.\u2019<\/p>\n

In a series of posts on LinkedIn over the last week, his posts have drawn a steadily growing audience across India\u2019s manufacturing community. Maulik laid out that mission with unusual bluntness. \u201cFor years, the world came to India for one thing, outsourced labour,\u201d he wrote ahead of the show. \u201cThis week, we went to the world to show them that we also engineer, build and innovate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It is a direct challenge to one of the most stubborn assumptions in global manufacturing: that India competes on cost, not on quality. \u201cThe world still thinks India competes on price and labour,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBut by standing on the same floor, meeting the same standard, we are taking the small steps to change this prejudice.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a>The tier-2 story behind the founder<\/strong><\/h2>\n

What makes Shah\u2019s story resonate beyond his own factory gates is where it comes from. Rajkot is not a metro. It sits in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, at the heart of an industrial belt long known for casting, forging, and engineering, a cluster built overwhelmingly by small and medium enterprises rather than corporate giants.<\/p>\n

For decades, that work happened quietly, supplying domestic industry with little recognition and even less visibility on the world stage.<\/p>\n

That is beginning to change. Improved connectivity, a maturing export ambition, and platforms that put founders in front of global buyers have brought tier-2 manufacturers closer to international markets than ever before. Increasingly, SMEs from towns like Rajkot and across Gujarat and other Indian states are turning up at exhibitions and chasing export opportunities that were once the preserve of large players in the big cities.<\/p>\n

Many small setup SME players are now looking for a broader perspective and a real shot at export. The bottleneck, in Maulik\u2019s view, is not talent or machinery. It is trust. The lacking part, he argues, is sustainability, system reliability and documentation.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The substance behind the claim<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u201cWe as Indians proudly celebrate jugaad,\u201d he wrote in one recent post<\/a>, \u201cand in doing so, we\u2019ve convinced the world and ourselves that this is the best we can do.\u201d But the global market, he warns, rewards the opposite instinct. \u201cThe world does not pay for your clever fix in a crisis. It pays to never have the crisis in the first place,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

On a shop floor, ordinary discipline is what creates extraordinary trust. His conclusion is almost a manifesto for the kind of manufacturer he wants Indian industry to become.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The bigger picture<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The timing of Shah\u2019s message is not incidental. As global manufacturers work to diversify their supply chains beyond a single-country dependence, the China-plus-one shift, India has positioned itself as a leading alternative in the forging industry.<\/p>\n

Aditya Engimach was one of only a handful of Indian forging manufacturers on the CastForge floor.<\/p>\n

The mission he has taken on is a long one, and the global bias that India can only be cheap won\u2019t be broken by how smart we are, but by our reliability on our quality that never fails.<\/p>\n

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