Steel Strips Wheels Limited designs and manufactures automotive wheels - steel wheels, alloy wheels and, more recently, aluminium knuckles - supplying original equipment manufacturers across the passenger vehicle, medium & heavy commercial vehicle, tractor/off-the-road, and two/three-wheeler segments. It runs five wheel-manufacturing plants across Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Gujarat, backed by a captive hot-rolling steel mill at Saraikela, Jharkhand, that feeds its steel-wheel plants. Beyond India, it exports wheels to OEMs across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia, and holds long-standing strategic alliances with Tata Steel Limited and Nippon Steel Corporation (Japan), both of which hold minority equity stakes in the company.
Segments
- Steel Wheels
- Alloy Wheels
- Aluminium Knuckles
- Wheel manufacturing plants
- 5 plants - Dappar (Punjab), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), Mehsana (Gujarat) and Bhuj (Gujarat) - plus a backward-integrated hot-rolling steel mill at Saraikela, Jharkhand
- Installed capacity
- ~25 million wheels/knuckles per annum (Steel Wheels 20 Mn + Alloy Wheels 5 Mn + Aluminium Knuckles 0.5 Mn)
- Employee strength
- 7,500+
- Product portfolio
- 3 product lines - Steel Wheels, Alloy Wheels, Aluminium Knuckles - serving PV, MHCV, tractor/OTR and 2/3-wheeler vehicle segments
- Key OEM customers
- Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Kia, MG Motors, Mahindra, Tata Motors, Honda, Ashok Leyland, Sonalika, Escorts, JCB, New Holland, HMSI and Suzuki Scooters, among others
- Export footprint
- OEM customers across roughly 24 countries spanning North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia, including the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Brazil and Australia