- CEO
- Ashok Jivarajbhai Sheth
- Full Time Employees
- 70
- Sector
- Producer manufacturing
- Industry
- Industrial machinery
- Address
- A-24 Vadodara GU India 390016
- IPO Date
- Apr 6, 1993
- Business
- Solitaire Machine Tools Limited (SOLIMAC.BO), founded in 1967 and headquartered in Vadodara, Gujarat, India, with a registered office in Mumbai, manufactures and sells precision centerless grinding machines and related CNC products for industries including automobiles, auto ancillaries, textile machinery, steel, and bearings. The company offers a range of centerless grinders in wheel widths from 100 mm (4 inches) to 500 mm (20 inches), including models licensed from Cincinnati Milacron USA and Bocca & Malandrone Sunebo S.p.A. Italy such as the Bocca line of CNC centerless grinders; CNC accessories comprising precision servo infeed attachments, servo drives for regulating wheels, two-axis CNC grinding wheel dressers, diamond roll dressers, and two- to five-axis CNC grinder controls; double disc grinding machines; and services like machine commissioning, training, telephonic and on-site support, remanufacturing, reconditioning of machines/assemblies/parts, and provision of machine spares. Solitaire operates two manufacturing units in Vadodara equipped for heavy machining, precision grinding, scrapping, assembly, quality control, and engineering, exporting to the United States, Europe, South America, Australia, and Asia. Recent developments include beginning construction of a new plant at Halol in 2023; launching a dedicated Special Purpose Machine (SPM) division for high-productivity single-operation tasks; merging its wholly owned subsidiary Shruchi Manufacturing Limited in 2020 via a scheme of amalgamation effective April 29, 2020; completing a remanufacturing and CNC retrofit project for six grinders with a major bearing manufacturer in 2018; installing a solar power system at its Chhani plant in 2017 to incorporate renewable energy; and developing a custom grinder with a German group to European standards in 2017, alongside ongoing collaborations such as with Delta-Tau Datasystems USA since 2001 and technical tie-ups for advanced grinder models like the No. 3 size in 2006 and five-axis CNC centerless grinder in 2011.