JCB India on Wednesday entered into generator market in the country by introducing diesel generators in the range of 63-100 KVA. The company is already exporting its diesel gensets to around 30 countries from India for the last 14 months. “We are the only major manufacturer in India manufacturing and assembling our own range of generators, both for the domestic manufacturers and for our markets worldwide,” said JCB India MD&CEO Vipin Sondhi.
“We are already exporting these generators to many countries including developed ones and received no complaint as yet so are assured of its premium quality and hope to sell around 1000 generators this year only,” added Sondhi. Talking in detail about Indian generator market Sondhi said that it is a Rs5,5000 crore market currently and each day it is growing.
He also said that despite talk of solar energy diesel generators are a necessity given its utility and the company is targetting industry, construction sites, hirers, banks, nursing homes for the sales. When asked smaller generators for domestic market, Sondhi said, “We will launch small generators for domestic market by 2015.”
“JCB diesel generators provide 5 star advantages to customers. Along with their highly efficient engine & compact size, they are easy to maintain and offer quality service through our world class JCB dealer network,” said Amit Gossain, Executive Vice President – Sales, Marketing and Business Development, JCB India ltd.