In 2016, we delivered 135 stone crushers, 13 hot mix plants and 9 wet mix plants to the Border Road Organisation (BRO). It is one of the biggest orders in the history of concreting equipment in India.

Ashok Kumar Malan,
General Manager, Akona Engineering Pvt Ltd

  Akona Engineering is one of the leading manufacturers, exporters and suppliers of construction equipment such as fully automatic computerised concrete batching and mixing plant, hot mix plant, wet mix plant, and more allied machines. In an interview with B2B Purchase, Ashok Kumar Malan, General Manager, Akona Engineering Pvt Ltd, gives an overview of the company’s performance and future roadmap.

How was the year 2016 and what’s your forecast for 2017?
In 1992, Akona Engineering Pvt Ltd made a humble beginning with the launch of smaller size of concrete mixer machine. It has emerged as one of the leading players in the construction machinery domain providing exceptionally best qualitative construction equipment. Today, we are one of the most preferred suppliers for major government organisations including Border Road Organisation (BRO), Uttar Pradesh State Bridge Corporation Ltd, BBJ Construction Co Ltd, NBCC (India) Ltd, Indian Railways and PWDs. Our products are in huge demand due to heavy structures, superior quality and best services in India as well as in overseas markets of South East Asia and Africa.

In 2015-16, we achieved a remarkable growth of 200 per cent in our turnover over the previous year. We would like to maintain similar growth in the current fiscal too. Of late, we received couple of healthy orders from Uttarakhand PWD and Asian Development Bank relief fund. In 2017, we target to achieve at least 150 per cent growth in our turnover.

What is the most significant order you could materialise during the past one year?
In 2016, we delivered 135 stone crushers, 13 hot mix plants and 9 wet mix plants to the Border Road Organisation (BRO). It is one of the biggest orders. In addition, Uttar Pradesh PWD placed an order worth Rs 6 – 8 crore.

How could you achieve such huge orders?
Though getting orders from the government is a daunting task, we could qualify because of our product quality and assurance for after-sales services. Our list of satisfied clientele and world-class manufacturing facility add credentials to our claims.

Do you have adequate facilities and manpower to support the after services?
We are powered with more than 165 service engineers placed across the country to support the sales and servicing. We have number of machines at various part of country under the Border Road Organisation and best service is managed to achieve maximum serviceability.

What about manufacturing facilities?
Presently we have 5 workshops – three at Roorkee and one each at Greater Noida and Ghaziabad. All these workshops are facilitated with latest equipment and spares to achieve 100 per cent accuracy in terms of product delivery.

Do you have any expansion plan in pipeline?
We are planning to bring in more advanced machineries in our existing facilities. We would also increase our manpower as and when required.