T & I Global Ltd is a Kolkata-based manufacturer that builds the machines the world’s tea industry runs on - and then grows tea with those same machines to prove they work. Founded by the Bagaria family in 1949 and now in its fourth generation, the company has spent over four decades refining a single, self-reinforcing loop: design and export tea-processing equipment to more than 35 countries, operate a 1,000-acre tea estate as a living showroom, and use the insights from both to keep improving the machinery. That loop - make it, use it, learn, make it better - is the recurring approach that explains everything else the company does. # Business segments Three engines that feed each other - a machinery-export leader that commands over 40% of its market, a food-processing offshoot built on the same factory floor, and a tea estate that doubles as a customer reference site. ## 1. Tea processing machinery: the export engine the business stands on **The company designs and builds entire tea factories - from the leaf-withering tunnel to the packing line - and sells them to producers across more than 35 countries, with a dominant position in exports.** - **Sells complete factories, not just machines** - the company provides turnkey solutions covering factory design, equipment supply, installation, commissioning, and operator training, including boilers, steam fittings, and electrical infrastructure, so a buyer gets a ready-to-run operation. - **Covers every major tea type** - the portfolio spans CTC machines (the “Crush, Tear, Curl” process that makes the granular tea for most tea bags), orthodox and green-tea equipment that handles whole leaves, and specialty machines like the Wizard Continuous Withering System and Questea ECP Dryer. - **Exclusive technology others cannot offer** - under Director Sangeet Bagaria, the company holds exclusive rights to patented Continuous Chemical Withering and Continuous Physical Withering systems, described as groundbreaking, along with three patents in tea-machinery innovation. - **Made under one roof with precision tooling** - the Kolkata factory integrates laser cutting, CNC and VMC machining, robotic welding, and sheet-metal punching, with a dedicated quality-control division operating a zero-defect policy and ISO 9001:2015 certification. ## 2. Food and agro-processing machinery: the tea-engine know-how applied to new crops **The same factory, R&D team, and drying expertise that serve tea producers have been extended to process coconuts, bananas, spices, rubber, and even industrial materials.** - **Drying technology repurposed** - the company supplies industrial dryers and complete processing lines for fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices, coconut products, and rubber dehydration, drawing directly on the drying know-how built for tea. - **First-in-India claims** - T & I Global says it was the first in India to deliver a complete banana dehydration line and the first to introduce high-efficiency dryers for Super Absorbent Polymers, a niche industrial material. - **Shared R&D backbone** - the in-house DSIR-certified research department, staffed with engineers and food technologists, develops machinery for both tea and food processing, so diversification does not require a separate innovation budget. ## 3. Mainak Tea Garden: the living showroom **A 1,000-acre tea estate in North Bengal that produces up to one million kilograms of CTC and green tea annually - and runs entirely on the company’s own machinery, so every buyer visit is a working demonstration.** - **A customer’s factory, owned by the seller** - the estate is equipped with T & I Global’s processing machinery, making it a permanent reference site where prospective buyers can see the equipment operating at commercial scale. - **Produces real tea for the domestic market** - the garden grows bi-clonal and bio-seed varieties, processes them under ISO and FSSAI standards with minimal manual handling, and sells the output entirely within India. - **Labour-intensive and weather-exposed** - like all Indian tea estates, the garden depends on skilled seasonal labour and is subject to the vagaries of nature, which makes it a realistic test environment for the machinery it showcases. # Group structure and partners **The company is a standalone, family-promoted entity with no subsidiaries - two associate companies sit within the promoter group, and one of them is also a supplier.** - T & I Projects Ltd., which held 13.86% of the company’s shares as of FY23, acts as a machinery supplier from which T & I Global undertakes trading activity, with goods supplied at reasonable market prices. - The company’s shares trade solely on the Bombay Stock Exchange after a voluntary delisting from the Calcutta Stock Exchange in December 2020.