- Business
- Oriental Rail Infrastructure Ltd (ORIRAIL.BO) manufactures and supplies railway components and products primarily for Indian Railways. The company produces seats and berths for passenger coaches including Duronto, Rajdhani and Shatabdi; recron densified thermal bonded blocks, recron wadding and foldable mattresses; compreg wood sheets for electrical insulation such as rings, blocks and segments; silicon foam blocks and shuttering plates; acosonic boards for architectural, thermal and noise barrier solutions; lavatory doors; phenolic resins and hardeners for plywood and molded goods; and artificial leather or rexine products under the ORVIN brand for shoes, automotive seating, upholstery, stationery, luggage and industrial applications; as well as trades timber woods, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, casting tools, slabs, rods and sections. Through its wholly owned subsidiary Oriental Foundry Private Ltd, incorporated in 2014, the company manufactures heavy engineering equipment including railway rolling stocks, bogies, couplers, draft gears and wagons. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Mumbai, India, Oriental Rail Infrastructure Ltd operates as a preferred Part I vendor to Indian Railways with products certified by Research Designs Standards Organisation and RITES, and holds over 50% market share in several seat and berth items used across all types of railway coaches; the company also serves other industries and exports its products. In February 2024, it raised Rs 212 crore through preferential allotment of warrants to promoters and equity shares to non-promoter investors including Mukul Agrawal; in 2025, its subsidiary secured orders worth Rs 2.55 crore for wagon manufacturing and supply, while the company won multiple contracts from Indian Railways entities such as Integral Coach Factory Chennai for Rs 12.80 crore, North Western Railways for Rs 1.61 crore and others totaling significant volumes for seats, berths and components; it changed its name from Oriental Veneer Products Ltd to Oriental Rail Infrastructure Ltd in March 2022.