Filtrabit and FAFECO sign extended partnership agreement

Filtrabit and FAFECO Engineers LLP have signed a comprehensive end-to-end partnership agreement for the Indian market.

The partnership encompasses business areas from sales to the design and construction of infrastructure, as well as manufacturing and aftermarket support.

Dr. Kim Fagerlund, CEO, Filtrabit:

”The Indian market presents immense opportunities for decarbonization and mitigating particulate emissions. We’re thrilled to collaborate with Fafeco to leverage our technology and their local expertise to accelerate this transition. Together, we’re shaping a cleaner future for India’s metallurgical and mining industries.”

Shyam Gurnani, Managing Director, FAFECO Group:

“We are committed to delivering innovative and sustainable solutions to our clients, and our partnership with Filtrabit aligns perfectly with this goal. We are incredibly excited about Filtrabit’s advanced dust extraction technology and the prospect of helping its wide adoption here in India.

We have a long history of providing cranes and other material handling solutions to the steel industry, non-ferrous metals industries and stone processing industries, to name a few. These are all industries working hard to reduce both their particulate and CO2 emissions, which is why combining Filtrabit’s solution with our own product offering is highly synergistic for us. Our customers are eager to find better solutions to meet their environmental goals and we are more than happy to help.

An added benefit we place a high value on, is the resulting improvement to our shared working environment.”

Rami Luoma-aho, Head of Global Supply Chain, Filtrabit:

“There were a number of factors that contributed to us partnering with Fafeco. With more than half a century of experience, they have an excellent track record of reliability and quality in manufacturing. They enjoy a very good reputation among our desired client space.

With their organization serving more than 700 clients across all of India, they can provide us with the necessary support structure to serve customers anywhere in the region. This applies to both installations and the aftermarket. Their ability to scale production to meet our high expectations for growth is also very important to us.

We consider Fafeco’s expertise in material handling solutions to be the perfect fit for us. Their product offering is entirely complementary to our solution and suffers from no conflicts of interest.

Importantly, their expertise has been proven in the same, challenging environments where we operate. Producing and refining metals come with no small amount of challenges to people and machines alike.

One crucial area for our operation is the design and construction of the necessary supporting infrastructure that enables effective industrial dust control, such as ducting and hooding of the dust generating sites. This is where we and our clients can benefit from Fafeco’s expertise in the much larger scale building projects required for their cranes – often in the very same locations inside the production facilities.

Fafeco has also shown genuine dedication to environmental improvements and they seem authentically excited about our technological innovation and its implications.”

About FAFECO Group

Fafeco group is one of India’s leading crane manufacturers established in 1971, having custom designed, manufactured and tested cranes with 560 T loads at its works. It manufactures innovative material handling solutions for the Steel as well as the Light Metals Industry. FAFECO GROUP comprises multiple firms: FURNACE & FOUNDRY EQUIPMENT CO. PVT LTD, FAFECO ENGINEERS LLP, FAFECO CRANE CARE, FAFECO CRANE AUDIT headquartered at Mumbai, India and an Indo-Canadian Joint Venture firm ADCL-FAFECO Engg. Pvt. Ltd. which also comprises STYMER TECHNOLOGIES (a design solutions organisation) and NOVITEQ (an automations solution provider).

About Filtrabit

Filtrabit is Finnish manufacturer of industrial-scale dust extraction systems. Filtrabit’s solution effectively extracts industrial dust-containing gas streams, which helps reduce air pollutants from industrial sources and accelerate emissions reductions through the reuse of recovered raw materials.