STEER Engineering


	Company - History
			Founded in 1993, STEER Engineering (P) Ltd. is a result of the visionary zeal of Dr. Babu Padmanabhan, who set out to reinvent the methods by which Twin Screw Compounding Elements were being manufactured. Constant innovation and ceaseless hard work has enabled the company to carve out a prominent position, globally, for the quality and precision of its products. The company now supplies to some of the worlds largest Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM's) and compounders in Japan through Kubota Corporation. The company also supplies to several multinational companies including GE Plastics worldwide. A natural progression was the design and manufacture of the latest generation of Co-rotating Twin Screw Extruders. The receipt of the first order of a 60 mm diameter extruder was in April 2003 and successful commissioning was completed in September 2003.

August 1994		Supply of the first twin screw co-rotating compounding element to GE Plastics, India.

January 1997		Certified ISO 9001: 1994 by Det Norske Veritas (DNV).

December 1998		Steps to make company Six Sigma commence.

June 1999		Definition of the geometry of a transition screw element from a Single Flight to Multiple Flights and filing of patent applications for Fractional-lobed elements.

February 2000		Exhibited a fully transparent extruder at Plast India.

July 2001		Factory expansion finalized to increase production area by 6000 sq. ft. Office space increased by 3000 sq. ft. Proposal for a new shop floor and laboratory.

December 2002		Development of Software commences.

August 2004		Commissioned in-house foundry and components manufacturing centre at Coimbatore.

September 2005		Participated in IPF 2005, Tokyo, Japan.

December 1996		Exports of compounding elements to Switzerland and Germany through C.T. Compounding A.G. commence.

January 1998		Installation of sophisticated protective atmospheric furnaces to for in-house heat treatment.

January 1999		Introduction of the WR5 material of construction (supremely wear resistant) into the market.

December 1999		Supplied 20,000 elements for over 60 different twin screw extruders.

April 2000		Kubota Corporation signs on as distributor for Japan.

August 2002		Manufacture of Extruders commences.

March 2004		Established state-of-the-art facilities, air-conditioned offices, a modern factory shop floor, assembly unit, air-conditioned control room and stores facility.

August 2005		US Patent for fractional element geometry in screw elements.

October 2005		Best Research Award (Polymer Sciences, Technology & Engineering) from the PlastIndia Foundation. Exported Omega 30 extruder to Nylon Corporation, USA.