Century Extrusions is a specialist metal-shaping business that has spent over three decades turning aluminium billets into precisely engineered profiles and components - essentially, it takes raw metal and pushes it through custom-made dies to create the complex cross-sections that go into car parts, power lines, building frames and defence equipment. Founded in 1988 by a first-generation entrepreneur and now run by the next generation from a single plant in Kharagpur, West Bengal, the company has built its position by mastering the entire process under one roof - from casting its own billets to designing its own dies - and by focusing on the high-strength, niche alloys that mass-market extruders avoid. The recurring approach is a direct, engineering-led sales model: because its products are too specialised for standard distribution channels, its team must be in front of customers, solving application-specific problems that require what management calls "tremendous micro-management".
Business segments
Two businesses run from the same factory - a core aluminium extrusion operation that shapes metal for industries ranging from cars to curtain walls, and a power-line hardware business that turns those same extrusion and casting skills into the connectors and clamps that hold up India's electricity grid.
1. Aluminium extrusions: the niche-engineered profiles business
A single-plant operation that makes over 3,500 different aluminium profiles across the full alloy spectrum, selling directly to OEMs who need shapes and strengths that standard extruders cannot supply.
- Full alloy range under one roof - the company extrudes everything from soft 1xxx-series to high-strength 7xxx-series alloys, a breadth that most competitors do not offer, which lets it serve demanding automotive, aerospace and defence applications alongside everyday architectural profiles.
- In-house die design is the speed advantage - with its own tool room running Q-FORM simulation software and an inventory of more than 5,000 dies, the company can design and manufacture a die for a new profile within three to six weeks, so customers get custom shapes without waiting for outsourced tooling.
- Three presses, one integrated line - the Kharagpur plant runs three extrusion press lines with a combined installed capacity of 15,000 tonnes per year, fed by an in-house cast house that produces its own billets in 6, 7 and 9-inch diameters, eliminating dependence on outside billet casters.
- Value-added finishing keeps margins in-house - post-extrusion, the plant performs laser marking, block cutting and automated powder coating through a 6,000-tonne-per-year line that is an approved applicator of AkzoNobel's Interpon D2000 series, so components leave the factory ready for assembly rather than as bare metal.
- Big-buyer purchasing power on raw metal - as one of India's largest institutional consumers of aluminium ingots and billets, the company sources from two nearby primary producers, Vedanta Aluminium and NALCO, securing purchase economies that smaller extruders cannot match.
2. Power transmission and distribution hardware: the grid-connector business
Aluminium and steel fittings - clamps, spacers, dampers, connectors - that hold conductors to insulators and towers on overhead power lines, made using the same extrusion and casting plant and sold to state electricity boards and transmission utilities.
- Extrusion capability feeds the product line - because the company already casts aluminium alloys and extrudes profiles in-house, it can manufacture the full range of T&D hardware fittings without relying on third-party component suppliers, covering everything from cast parts to wire-drawn and helical products.
- Registered with the buyers that matter - the company has secured supplier registration with multiple State Electricity Boards and has received substantial orders from Powergrid, power generating stations, transmission utilities and erection contractors, giving it a direct route to public-sector infrastructure spending.
- A full fabrication workshop behind the fittings - the segment's manufacturing capabilities extend beyond extrusion to argon welding, electric arc welding, machining, and assembly of bundle spacers and vibration dampers, so the company delivers finished assemblies rather than just extruded blanks.
Group structure and partners
A standalone public company with no subsidiaries or joint ventures, run from a single plant in West Bengal with a newly transitioned leadership team and a signed agreement to build a second plant in Odisha.
- No group, no complexity - Century Extrusions has no subsidiary, joint venture or associate company, so all operations, assets and customer relationships sit within one listed entity.
- Second-generation leadership - the founder's son, Mr. Shivanshu Jhunjhunwala, was appointed Chairman and Managing Director in June 2025 as part of a planned succession, succeeding Mr. Vikram Jhunjhunwala.
- Two primary-metal suppliers, no long-term contracts - Vedanta Aluminium and NALCO are the key raw material sources, both located near the Kharagpur plant, though the company operates without long-term supply agreements.
- A second plant on the drawing board - in January 2024, the company signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Odisha to set up a new aluminium extruded products unit in Jharsuguda district with a proposed capacity of 30,000 tonnes, an investment of ₹16,000 lakhs, and an expected 1,000 jobs.