Gujarat Intrux is a specialist foundry that makes high-precision steel and alloy castings - essentially, custom-shaped metal parts weighing anywhere from a handbag to a small truck - for the valves that control flow in oil rigs, refineries and ships. It was born in 1992 as a copper-extrusion shop, but volatile metal prices pushed it to pivot hard into sand-casting by 1997, a move that traded commodity chaos for a business built on engineering repeatability. The recurring approach is simple: pour all the critical processes - melting, moulding, testing, machining - under one roof so the customer gets a finished, certified part without ever having to manage a chain of middlemen. # Business segments A single-engine business - one integrated sand-casting foundry that supplies machined, certified castings to valve-makers and earthmoving customers across six export markets and its Indian home base. ## 1. Sand-cast components: the precision parts inside industrial valves and heavy machinery **Every casting leaves the factory machined, tested and certified to international pressure-vessel and marine standards - it is not a rough lump of metal but a ready-to-install component.** - **One roof, from melt to machine** - the plant houses two induction furnaces, a CO₂ moulding unit, a sand-reclamation system, heat-treatment, and a full machine shop with CNC, VMC, VTL and HMC machines, so the company controls quality and lead times at every step rather than outsourcing finishing work. - **Certified for the world’s toughest environments** - the foundry holds product and process approvals including PED and AD2000-WO for European pressure equipment, NORSOK for Norwegian oil-and-gas work, IBR for Indian boilers, and marine certifications from Lloyd’s, DNV-GL and ABS, which means its castings can go straight into a North Sea platform or a commercial ship without the buyer needing to re-qualify the source. - **Big parts, small batches, high mix** - single-piece weights range from 20 kg to 3,300 kg, and the company developed more than 100 new items in a single year, so the foundry is set up for the short-run, high-variety orders that valve and earthmoving customers actually need rather than mass-production of one standard shape. - **Exports are a structural half of the business** - in FY25, 40% of sales went to six countries - Germany, Israel, the USA, the UK, Spain and Finland - giving the company a natural hedge against domestic demand cycles and proving its quality meets the specifications of the most demanding Western industrial buyers. - **Raw-material and energy costs are the swing factor** - the key inputs are zircon sand, chromite sand, resins, fluxes, and metals like iron and nickel, while the 1,800 KVA high-tension power connection and gas-fired processes make energy a critical cost line, so profitability lives or dies on procurement discipline and process efficiency. # Group structure and partners **The company stands alone - no subsidiaries, no holding company - but shares common promoters and routine shop-floor transactions with three sister foundry entities.** - **Legally independent, operationally solo** - Gujarat Intrux has no holding, subsidiary or associate companies, and its single reportable segment is the sand-casting unit, so the listed entity is a pure-play foundry with no consolidation complexity. - **Sister companies under common control** - related-party transactions occur with Intolcast Private Limited, Intricast Private Limited and InvacCast Limited, covering jobwork income, purchases and sales of goods, and sample-testing charges, which suggests the group shares overflow work and testing resources across foundries. - **Promoter-directors sit across the group** - the Managing Director, Mr. Dhiraj D. Pambhar, is also a director of Intricast and Intolcast, while the Chairman, Mr. Ramankumar D. Sabhaya, serves on the board of Invac Cast Limited, creating a web of common leadership that coordinates the family of casting businesses without formal cross-holdings.