Address : No.5, D'Silva Road, Mylapore, Chennai,
Tamil Nadu 600004, India
Office Time : Mon-Sat 9.30AM-6PM
| Year | Events |
|---|---|
| 1973 | Establishment of Precision Controls. |
| 1977 | First export of Drying Oven to Malaysia & Thailand. |
| 1978 | First large pit type furnace supplied to Department of Space |
| 1981 | Entered into a short term technical tie-up with EFCO Furnaces Ltd, U.K for a period of 3 years to manufacture larger capacity furnaces with special emphasis to Aluminum industries for supply Aluminum Logs Homogenizing Furnace & Ageing ovens and for steel industries to supply Bogie hearth furnaces ,Nitriding ,carburizing & salt bath furnaces. |
| 1986 | “Premier Furnaces Private Limited” was founded by Mr Shankar in 1986 (30 years ago) exclusively to serve Nuclear power corporation for carrying out Nitriding of reactor components for nuclear power stations in India .Also specialized in supplying of spent fuel storage trays and spent fuel storage casks for the first time in India. The above activities continued till 2002 |
| 1989 | Indigenously developed the first bell furnace to work under nitrogen atmosphere for India’s top auto fasteners manufacturing industry at Chennai. Indigenously developed rotary tube furnaces to M/s. Nuclear Fuel Complex, Department of Atomic Energy for processing of uranium oxide powder. |
| 1990 | Entered into technical tie-up with M/s. Lanley Inc. USA for manufacture of high precession aluminum solution treatment and ageing furnaces for use in aerospace industry commissioned at HAL, Bangalore. |
| 1991 | Entered into a technical tie-up with M/s. Vac Aero International Inc. Canada for supply of large vacuum chambers, vacuum furnaces etc. for aerospace applications. This tie-up continued till 2005. This association was basically aimed for serving I.S.R.O and their associate groups Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), GeoSynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) etc. |
| 1993 | Precons had successfully commissioned triplevacuum chambers at LPSC,Mahendragiri,Tamilnadu in 1993 for testing of satellite components under simulating conditions. |
| 1994 | “ Mirra and Mirra Industries ” a proprietorship firm was founded by Mr Shankar for wire rod conversion to cold forge auto component manufacturers like Sundram Fasteners Limited(SFL) ,Tubes India(TI) and a number of companies in and around Chennai. |
| 1995 | Precons had successfully commissioned number of rotary tube furnaces for processing Uranium oxide power to NFC, Hyderabad
Obtained ISO 9001 QMS certification. |
| 1999 | Successfully commissioned Asia’s largest vacuum chamber and vacuum pumping system suitable for electron beam welding facility for LPSC,Dept. of Space Bangalore commission at HAL aerospace division Bangalore. |
| 2002 | Developed indigenously continuous hardening and tempering line furnace for auto components. |
| 2003 | Commissioned successfully the first large 100 ton capacity LPG fired box type heating furnace to M/s. Bay Forge Ltd. (A group company of FOMAS, Italy). |
| 2004 | Commissioned successfully the country’s largest 20 Ton capacity electric drop bottom quench furnace for aluminum solutionizing at M/s. Bay Forge Ltd. Redeeming feature was limiting quench delay to a maximum of 7 seconds.
All the above furnaces were commissioned at Bay Forge Ltd.(Holy owned Italian company at Chengalpet Tamilnadu). Dr Madhavan Nair then Chairman of Dept of Space gave away mementos as a best furnace manufacture in 2007 at a function organized by Bay Forge Ltd. Commissioned successfully 60 Ton capacity LPG fired bogie hearth heat treatment furnace with high degree of temp uniformity applied to Dept of Space. |
| 2005 | Udyog Patra award was presented by Institute of Trade and Industrial Development to Mr.Shankar, Managing Director for successful self made industrialist.
Exportedtransformer core annealing furnaces to Bangladesh. |
| 2006 | Export turnover crossed Rs 10 millions (US $ 250,000)
Exported bell type transformer core annealing furnaces to Crompton Greaves USA. India’s largest & first of its kind indigenously developed 30T capacity bell type wire rod annealing furnace was successfully supplied and commissioned at Mirra and Mirra Industries. Chennai. Commissioned a large Ageing Heat Treatment Furnace at Indonesian Aerospace Ltd with quality of acceptance as per AMS 2750D and CASA 1036. |
| 2007 | Bagged large valued contracts from single customer and the total value crossed Rs 150 millions for supply of High precession 80 MT ,60 MT heat treatment furnaces. |
| 2011 | Turnover Crossed Rs 230 millions.
Supplied the first 1200 Kg/hr Continuous hardening and tempering furnace line for fasteners. |
| 2012 | Exported Transformer core annealing furnace to Thailand.
Commissioned successfully LPG fired Bar Hardening and Tempering Furnaces at Malaysia. |
| 2015 | Witnessing 2 decades of successful wire rod conversion activities to TVS group & others and after understanding the reputation of sister concern “Mirra and Mirra Industries” ,Toyota group companies along with their associates in Japan totally bought over “Mirra and Mirra Industries Pvt.Ltd.” after rigorous DD actives from KPMG,PWC and J Sagar . |
