Karthik Natarajamurthy

Madras Engineering Industries Private Limited

Madras Engineering Industries Private Limited is the largest manufacturer of Slack Adjusters in India & the 2nd largest globally. With a market standing of over five decades had pioneered the indigenous development of Self Setting Automatic Slack Adjusters for Global and Indian Markets. MEI's Automatic Slack Adjusters are exported to Europe, North America, South Africa, Brazil, Korea, Mexico, and Russia. MEI is the preferred development partner for SASA by all OEMs in India. MEI enjoys over 80% fitment share with TML, AL, VECV, Bharat Benz, MTBL, and other OEMs in all their air brake fitted models. This apart, MEI is the 100% source for Trailer axle manufacturers like YORK, JOST, ADR, etc. MEI provides the widest product range covering Straight arm, Offset type & Crank type to suit every axle requirement. MEI has its own State-of-the-art Research and Development facility at Maraimalai Nagar, Chennai accredited by Government of India. MEI's SASA is an in-house developed product and has 5 global patents. MEI has also developed Clutch Boosters thru home-grown expertise for all Light & M&HCV applications and is the principal source to TML. MEIs Clutch Boosters have significant recognition with both OEM and AM customers. Globally, MEI is the Second largest manufacturer of Automatic Slack Adjusters. MEI has diversified into developing Air Disc Brakes for Passenger vehicles and has been exporting ADB assemblies to Europe. MEI ADB assemblies are retrofitted in various buses in India. All ADB assemblies exported have type approved by KBA. MEI has set up a state-of-the-art Foundry for the manufacture of SG Iron castings. This foundry is equipped with DISA automatic high pressure flask-less vertically parted green sand molding machines, Complete dust, and fume extraction systems. All Plants of MEI have IATF / TS 16949, ISO 14001 certifications. All ASAs exported has type approval by Link Laboratories USA and TUV Germany.