Federal-Mogul Goetze (India), a part of Escorts group, was promoted in 1954 in technical and financial collaboration with Goetz-werke of Germany, one of the leading manufacturers of automotive piston rings in the world. The product range manufactured by Federal-Mogul covers piston rings, cylinder liners, light alloy castings and sintered products. The company`s plants are located at Patiala and Bangalore. The company later diversified into the manufacture and export of food products, solvent oil extraction and chain of supermarkets.
For its supermarkets chain, it entered into a joint venture with Nanz Germany and also set up a joint venture company, Nanz Food Products for the manufacture of meat and poultry products. In 1992-93, the company established a 100% EOU for leather garments to increase export earnings. But in 1998-99, this leather garments division was hived off into a seperate company, GIP Leather (India), in joint venture with Speith & Wensky of Germany in which the company holds 70% equity. In 1995-96, a new company Brico Goetze (India) was set up in collaboration with T&N Plc for the manufacture of sintered metal components.