Hinduja Foundries (HINDUJAFO) is an automotive jobbing foundry catering to major automobile original equipment manufacturers. It was incorporated as a private limited company on Jul. 30, 1959, converted into a public limited company on Mar. 28, 1961, and got its present name on Jan. 23, 2008.The company is an associate company of Ashok Leyland, the flagship company of the Hinduja group, which has global investments in energy, information technology, chemicals & agri business, media and communications, project development, banking and finance, and trading. Other group companies include Gulf Oil, HTMT, Indusind Bank, and Hinduja Hospitals. The ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 certified company manufactures cylinder blocks, cylinder heads, flywheels, flywheel housings, transmission casings, clutch plates, brake drums, intake manifolds and clutch housings for HCVs, LCVs and cars. It makes grey iron and aluminum gravity die casting for automobiles, industrial engines, power generators and tractors as well as for defence applications. The manufacturing unit at Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh has a production capacity of 48,000 MT of grey iron casting and 3,000 MT of aluminum gravity die-casting. The in-house R&D center has helped in the development of up-to-date shop-floor equipment with microprocessor based controls. As the largest manufacturer of cylinder block and cylinder head castings in India with a product range of 25 different castings, the company`s customers are some of India`s largest automotive and engineering corporations including Ashok Leyland, Hindustan Motors, Hyundai, Maruti Suzuki, Swaraj Mazda, Simpson & Co., Caterpillar and Mahindra & Mahindra. The registered office is located at Ennore, Chennai-600057.